Proper Lifting Techniques

Course Overview

Why Are Lifting Ergonomics Important?

Back injuries account for one in five workplace injuries, and 75% of workplace-related back injuries occur during a lifting task.

Every year, two million back injuries occur across the U.S.; roughly half of them – one million – are back injuries sustained in the workplace.

Back pain becomes chronic and disabling in roughly 5% of cases, and up to 44% of people who initially recover have a reoccurrence within a year. Then once you’ve had two episodes of back pain in a year, you’re three times more likely to experience the third episode.

Put all that together, back injuries are a significant source of disability. After all, 5% of a million is 50,000 chronic and disabling cases of back pain.

The consequences are expensive for employers – in workers’ compensation claims, days away from work, and lost productivity.

So one of the most boring topics we will cover is one of the most important ones. Try to stay awake….