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Injury Prevention In The Workplace

Injuries have causes...they do not simply come about through fate or bad luck...it is generally accepted that over 90% of injuries are due to human factors. Improving and maintaining positive safety attitudes amongst your employees is the key to limiting accidents within the workplace. Health & Safety should be everyone's business and 'smart' organisations are realising that a well developed Health & Safety culture is "good for business"...

Effective Injury Prevention requires a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary approach. Our IMNZ consultants are able to work to assist client organisations with tailor-made programmes to meet specific needs and ensure a systematic approach to the ongoing reduction of risk.

Wellnz Injury Prevention Initiatives:

Wellnz initiatives with our clients will often include:

Development of a Health & Safety Improvement Plan to support health & safety "culture" and comply with all relevant legislation.
External Audits of current workplace safety management practices and reporting on findings with recommended improvements.
Site Hazard Surveys and the development of effective control plans to effectively reduce risk within the client organisation.
Compliance advice on changes to the Health & Safety Legislation.
Training Programmes for management and / or staff on a wide variety of subjects. Examples include:

General Injury Prevention workshops, including Hazard Management and Accident Investigation.
Stress and Fatigue workshop: What is it; how is it recognised; management responsibilities, and what can you do in a practical sense to minimise the risk?
ACC Partnership Programme workshops.
Training for OOS Prevention and prevention of manual handling injuries.

Expert support to develop and implement systems to meet requirements of ACC's Workplace Safety Management Practices (WSMP) and ACC Partnership Programme (ACCPP).
Development of policies, procedures and documentation to meet internal and external legislative requirements.

Wellnz's Guiding Principles:

Our guiding principles are simple; at Wellnz we aim to establish a self-sustaining safety and health loss prevention ethos within our client organisations. As far as possible we like to utilise in-house management knowledge and skills, while always providing required advice and support. This approach brings a sense of awareness and accountability and 'ownership' for managing risk.