Did you know that June is
National Employee Wellness Month
? FIT has been preventing back injuries within corporate America now for 27 years by offering a wellness approach to workers’ comp cost abatement.
We have focused our programs (
Backsafe® and Sittingsafe®)
on the belief that in order to prevent work related sprain and strain type injuries, you must also include how to prevent off work injuries too. After all, your spine and other body parts register physical stress no matter what you are doing.
The first thing we accomplish in our training is to establish a “
personal wellness attitude
”. There are too many instances in our society where people are treated as victims of their environment. Aches and pains are explained as “it’s just part of the job” or part of the “aging process”.
In a recent Backsafe Workshop, one employee stated: “it is about time someone told me how I can help prevent aches and pains.”
Employees do not want to be in pain. Teaching people that they can have a say in how they feel is very empowering.
