Protecting Your Back video

Key Features

19-minute VHS or DVD video

Back injuries hurt a lot! They hurt your employees, your staffing levels, your efficiency, your morale, your workers’ compensation claims and your insurance premiums.

This program includes instruction on proper body mechanics, patient transfer techniques and exercises which will help you avoid what OSHA has called "the nation’s number one workplace safety problem."

• How to avoid injury through proper body mechanics

• Safe lifting techniques

• Back strengthening exercises

• Bonus segment on avoiding injury during patient transfer

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

• English, Spanish and Portuguese on one DVD 
• A Customizable PowerPoint™ Presentation - makes training site-specific; excellent for training different personnel and departments
• Training Points - outlines key learning points of your training; reinforces important safety points to your employees.
• Chapterized Content - video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigating through the course.
• Expanded Leader's Guide - excellent resource to help plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that can serve as a pre and/or post evaluative tool.
• Portable Convenience - perfect for those who train and travel! Includes ten employee handbooks.

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Back Safety: Protecting Your Back handbook
This handbook is specifically for healthcare workers and illustrates how the back works and how to prevent back injuries. It also includes a section on patient transfer.

Please call 1-800-488-0319 to order customized handbooks.

Handbooks must be purchased in packs of 10. When ordering, enter the number of packs you would like to purchase. For example, if you would like to order 50 handbooks, enter "5" in the quantity field.