Companies
Our qualified team of Health Professionals have an extensive range of experience, in a wide variety of worksites including foundries, mines, refineries, factories, transport organizations, office/administration and tourist industries. Services that NQTS provide for proactive employers include:
Manual Handling Audits / Office Ergonomic Audits
NQTS will assess various departments of the workplace to assess manual tasks from a Risk Assessment perspective and provide ideas on solutions to control identified hazards. NQTS provide feedback via presentations to supervisors or meetings to discuss and assist with control implementation.
Manual Handling Tasks - include pushing / pulling; lifting, moving, grasping, handling and climbing all of which cause strain and sprain injuries (one of the highest causes of injuries in the workplace).
Office Ergonomics -Workers in offices often think they are immune to injuries due to the “light” nature of work. These workers are however often at risk to Occupational Overuse Injuries (OOS), an umbrella term for a range of diagnosis such as tendonitis (e.g. golfer’s elbow, tennis elbow), carpal tunnel syndrome, nerve impingements etc. These injuries are cumulative in nature but usually give the worker a range of symptoms before it becomes debilitating. Correct set-up of the office environment, use of micro-breaks and stretches performed by workers in the course of their usual work can reduce the risk of these injuries.
Health Training Seminars
Courses / toolbox talks NQTS provide to workplaces include:
§ Manual Handling Training
§ Office Ergonomics Training
§ Stress Management Training
§ Heat Stress Training
§ Rehabilitation Co-ordinator Training
§ Warm-up At Work Training
§ Noise Conservation Training
§ Protecting Your Eyes Training
§ Protecting Your Hands From Injury Training
§ Other programs or series of toolbox talks can be individually tailored to your company’s needs
Vocational Rehabilitation / Injury Management
NQTS are experienced in assisting injured employees with return to work programs to return employees to their pre-injury role or vocational redirection if they are unable to return to work. NQTS can assist for particularly difficult cases where there is multiple or complex injuries or difficult circumstances.
§ Case Management
§ Functional Capacity Evaluations
§ Vocational Assessments
§ Work Site Visit
§ Job Task Analysis or Develop a Suitable Duties Manual for different departments in your workplace
§ Return to Work Programs
§ Vocational Re-direction
§ Work Trial Set-up
Pre-employment Assessments
Employers who wish to determine if there is a match between job applicant’s abilities and workplace task demands can do pre-employment functional assessments. This is a two step process involving
1) Job Task Analysis and 2) Establishing a Functional Capacity Assessment to match the position.
Writing and Developing Site Specific DVD’s
NQTS can develop simple or complicated training DVD’s tailored specifically to your company for Induction or Ongoing training purposes.
§ Manual Handling Induction
§ Health Training Seminars
§ General Induction of our site
§ Induction for Contractors
Workplace Fitness programs
Employers who wish to improve the health of their employees. NQTS can provide workplace fitness programs for individual or group on-site training. Programs include discussions about holistic health with emphasis on exercise, nutrition, relaxation and stretching, a baseline assessment and periodic reviews.
Workplace Observations- Manual Handling Observations
Employers that are looking for a proactive approach to manual handling training, workplace observations is an onsite-feedback approach. This involves an Occupational Therapist walking around worksites with a supervisor to watch workers perform normal workplace duties, and then approaching them in relation to their manual handling techniques. Workers are congratulated on good postures/ work practices and improvements that can be made will be discussed.
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