Proactive approaches to tackling back pain

Article Abstract:

Proactive employer strategies to handling back pain include raising employers' and managers' awareness of such pain and its prevention, including policies on manual handling, quick access to employer-provided physical therapy, getting employees long-term sick leave due to back problems and helping such employees return to work with a structured rehabilitation program, and looking at job design as a factor in back pain.

Physical therapy, Backache, Back pain

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"Lean and keen": fitness initiatives at Air Products

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Air Products, a British manufacturer of industrial gases and chemicals, believes its on-site fitness centers and other employee wellness facilities are an important part of its holistic approach to health at work as well as a valuable employee benefit. Air Products' contributions to employee wellness won the company a 1998 award. Health and safety are top corporate objectives.

Health clubs

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Partnership approach to health at work: City Health Steering Group

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The City Health Steering Group is a wellness program in London, UK, seeking to identify and quantify especially the health needs of employees in small and medium-sized companies, to identify gaps in health information services, to facilitate the exchange of good practice models in the area, and to consider how best to disseminate the Steering Group's findings.

Management, Occupational health services

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