Workplace Injury Prevention and Follow Up Care: Giving ATs More Room To Move

This presentation was recorded at NATA 2022 in Philadelphia and featured in our 2023 Encore.

Abstract: 
Developing an injury prevention program can lead to increased ergonomic awareness within workers. The current literature isn’t definitive on the effectiveness of pre-shift stretching alone to reduce work-related injuries, but developing a holistic prevention program can address the needs of both the worksite and clients to improve client outcomes and improve patient satisfaction. This session will give ATs working in all settings that utilize workers’ compensation the tools to develop a standardized program to prevent work-related injuries, and then use that program to provide subsequent follow-up care within the operational standards of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Learning Objectives: 

  • Compare outcomes of traditional pre-shift programs most practiced in the industrial and occupational sites to strengthening wellness programs
  • Illustrate ways that a sitewide wellness program can be utilized after a work-related injury has occurred to keep within the confines of OSHA first aid
  • Discover ways that a solid injury prevention program can integrate the AT more fully into the site’s safety culture and initiatives
  • Develop a program that will be able mitigate recordability within the team members
  • Identify barriers to implementing workplace injury prevention programs

Level:
Advanced

Domain(s):

  • Domain 1: Risk Reduction Wellness and Health Literacy
  • Domain 4: Therapeutic Intervention
  • Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility

CEUs:
1.0 Category A

Keywords: pre-shift, recordability, wellness, OSHA, work-related injury, ergonomics, workers’ compensation

Tiffany McGuffin, MS, LAT, ATC

Tiffany currently works in the industrial setting as the Lead Athletic Trainer for Pivot Onsite Innovations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She has been in the industrial setting for five years, with previous experience in physician practice, concussion management and research, the secondary and the collegiate settings. She currently serves as the District 6 Secretary, and is a proud COPA Alumni.

Zachary Prater, MS, LAT, ATC

Zachary is an industrial Athletic Trainer for Pivot Onsite Innovations, contracted at Frito-Lay in Frankfort, IN. I have been an AT for almost 2 years, with experience primarily in non-traditional settings. I graduated from Franklin College, during which I was fortunate enough to be an Intern for Rehabworks @ Kennedy Space Center. I enjoy studying and educating on Injury Prevention because I believe it can have the greatest impact on our day-to day life, even if never recognized by ourselves or others. It is a thankless field of study, but crucial to living safe and healthy lives. I enjoy camping, training my German Shepard pup-Apollo, and reading old medical texts. I am a self acknowledged nerd and love learning.

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