Train staff to avoid repetitive strain injury
Training your staff in order to minimise the risks from repetitive strain injury by teaching them to be aware of the symptoms of RSI and reduce risks.
Training is one of the most important steps you can take to prevent people in your business developing repetitive strain injury (RSI). If workers do not follow the correct guidelines when carrying out tasks, it can increase their risk of RSI.
For example, sitting at a computer workstation won't necessarily cause an employee to develop a RSI, but the risk will be much higher if your employees:
- don't know how to adjust their seats correctly
- don't take regular take breaks
- don't know how to position the computer's screen, keyboard and mouse correctly
Key areas employee training should cover
Be sure that staff training includes the following:
- potential risks their work involves, eg making repeated forceful movements or using hand-held power tools for long periods
- how to reduce risks, eg following correct-usage guidelines supplied by equipment manufacturers
- what's expected of them, eg if power-tool workers need regular short breaks, make sure they take them
- the symptoms of RSI - the earlier RSI are spotted, the swifter the recovery usually is
- the correct procedure for reporting a RSI, or a task they think poses a RSI risk
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