Strong, flexible, well-conditioned backs are healthy, safe backs. Help your workers prevent back injuries by teaching them these tips and some quick and easy back exercises.
One way to help prevent back injuries is to improve the condition of your back. Here are some tips from Safety.BLR.com® that you can pass along to your workers to help them keep their backs in shape:
- Physical conditioning of your back means not only improving your back muscles but also related muscles, such as the ones in your stomach and thighs. Regular exercise should help keep your back strong, maintain your flexibility, and prevent strains and sprains.
- Staying flexible and limber is also important. Your exercise program should emphasize flexibility so that you can bend, turn, and twist your back without injury.
- Try to lose excess weight that contributes to poor posture and puts a strain on your back muscles. Your exercise program should also help you lose weight—another way that exercise helps keep your back healthy.
- >Finally, consult your physician before starting an exercise or weight loss program.
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Here are some of the exercises your workers can do to prevent back injuries.
These exercises are intended to improve conditioning and flexibility while helping workers lose or maintain their weight. But remember to have them consult with a doctor before starting an exercise program.
- A program of walking for 30 minutes a day will help strengthen muscles and prevent weight gain.
- A daily program of stretching exercises will help improve your flexibility and keep your back in good condition. Stretching exercises might include bending backwards or sideways, rotating your hips, or twisting gently from side to side.
- Sit-ups help strengthen your stomach muscles, which in turn help support your back.
- Leg lifts help strengthen the muscles in your hips and buttocks. These can be done when you’re standing or when lying on the floor.
- Another good exercise is squats. These strengthen your back, stomach, and leg muscles, and also help you practice good lifting techniques.
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BLR’s Safety Meetings Library provides the perfect back safety information for conducting frequent and engaging training that will teach your workers how to prevent back injuries. This cost-effective resource provides no fewer than seven separate safety meetings on the topic, as well as supporting handouts, quizzes, posters, and safety slogans.
All told, the CD provides you with more than 400 ready-to-train meetings on more than 100 key safety topics—a shrewd investment in this time of tight safety budgets. In addition to the meetings’ supplemental quizzes and handouts, you also get relevant regulations (OSHA’s CFR 29), a listing of the most common safety violations cited by OSHA, and case studies of actual OSHA cases and their outcomes.
Safety Meetings Library lets you choose from a variety of training approaches, including:
- Mandatory—Sessions that are OSHA-required
- Comprehensive—Sessions with broadest coverage of a topic
- 7-Minute—Short, simple, targeted sessions to fit tight schedules
- Initial—A session used as introductory training on a topic
- Refresher—Sessions that follow up on or reinforce previous training
- Toolbox Talk—More informal reinforcement of a topic
- PowerPoint®—Graphic presentations for comprehensive initial or refresher training
- Hands-on—A session in which there are training activities
- Spanish—Including Spanish language handouts and quizzes coordinated with English sessions
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