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    Occupational Medicine

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    Injury Prevention

    You can prevent injuries before they happen by developing an effective injury prevention strategy, assessing the workplace and ensuring staff have the knowledge they need to be successful. Injury prevention is provided for all industries, including the office setting, construction site, heavy manufacturing, light manufacturing, meatpacking, warehousing, agribusiness, food services, transportation and healthcare settings.

    Our Occupational Medicine team in La Crosse, Wisconsin, has industrial consultants with over 50 years of clinical experience. We have an industrial/ergonomics specialist who is a board-certified ergonomist by the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics. We also have an ergonomics analyst who manages all ergonomics needs in the Southwest Wisconsin region.

    Injury prevention strategy

    Planning ahead can reduce your incident rates, keep your employees safe and help them work to their full potential.

    Referral for injury prevention can come from both physicians and employers:

    • Physician referrals
      Our team assists the employee with medical management strategies and provides them with injury prevention techniques.
    • Employer referrals
      Our team assists employees with eliminating ergonomic design mismatches and technique mismatches. We collaborate with managers and supervisors to help them understand how best to provide rapport, effective training and sustainable coaching methods.

    Ergonomic assessments

    An industrial consultant will assess your workplace ergonomics and provide recommendations to create a zero-injury workplace, decrease loss ratios, decrease modification ratings and lower workers' compensation costs.

    Assessments can be provided individually for an employee or injured worker, or they can be provided for an entire department or company as part of a comprehensive ergonomics control program.

    Ergonomics consultants will collaborate with your leadership team to ensure a safe workplace. Consultants arrive at your facility and provide an assessment that will outline ergonomic risk and recommendations for improvement based on ergonomic design, and build guidelines to eliminate ergonomic design mismatches and employee technique mismatches.

    During an ergonomic assessment, consultants will:

    1. Complete brief employee interviews to become familiar with your organization and to understand concerns from an employee perspective.
    2. Identify ergonomic risks that include, but are not limited to, awkward postures, forceful exertions, repetitive or prolonged activities, environmental exposures and poor work process.
    3. Provide recommendations to address ergonomic design and technique mismatches.
    4. These recommendations usually are low-cost, high-impact solutions. Our consultants also will collaborate with your engineering/tooling/maintenance teams to modify tools and workstations to maximize the success of your employees by eliminating ergonomic risk factors.

    Education and training

    Our Occupational Health team provides a wide variety of educational opportunities for leadership teams, managers, supervisors and employees to improve workplace safety. Training ensures your employees have the skills they need to maintain a safe working environment.

    Education and training opportunities include:

    • 24-hour injury prevention training
    • AED training
    • Back injury prevention training
    • Comprehensive ergonomics control program/processes
    • CPR and first aid training
    • Industrial ergonomics
    • Office ergonomics
    • Pre-work stretching training
    • Reasonable suspicion training
    • Safe patient handling initiatives for healthcare settings
    • Three-day leadership training, which highlights injury prevention strategies, ergonomic design and build guidelines, medical management, early return to work and "energy strategies" that keep every program alive and sustainable
    • Upper extremity cumulative trauma prevention training

    Fees apply for on-site consultation, education and training.

    Call to learn more about injury prevention measures, schedule a consultation or arrange for education and training.


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