The benefits of onsite physiotherapy in the workplace are more than just treatment. With 25+ years’ experience as an onsite physiotherapist, Paul Romanin shares his thoughts & insights on the benefits of onsite physiotherapy.
Onsite physiotherapy has the potential to be highly beneficial for companies looking to ensure their workplace is safe & working efficiently.
Many organisations employ an onsite physiotherapist to solely treat their injured workers, with an obvious benefit of reducing lost time/productivity by keeping rehabilitation in-house & onsite rather than workers taking time offsite for treatments.
This is often seen as a reactive measure in managing injured employees. However, in many cases, onsite physio treatments can also play a highly beneficial, proactive role for the workplace.
At Melbourne Workplace Physiotherapy we proactively provide early communication & reporting of injury to management and the OH&S team of manual handling risk factors/incidents, as our onsite physio treatments aid in highlighting potential manual handling risk factors.
OH&S staff then have the opportunity to proactively react to this reporting & take measures to ensure that reoccurrence of future workplace incidents are controlled, and/or more importantly, prevented.
The proactive measures in the workplace that an onsite physiotherapist can provide extends beyond early reporting & ensuring employees return to work without aggravation of pain.
At Melbourne Workplace Physiotherapy these proactive measures include task analysis/job dictionary of the whole plant, manual handling risk assessments, RTW consultancy & specific manual handling training. Should the organisation require their staff to have specific physical attributes, then the onsite physio could also be involved in specific pre-employment assessments.
Need more proactive measures to ensure highest level safety & productivity in your workplace? Call Paul Romanin of Melbourne Workplace Physiotherapy today on 0413 277 692.
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