Work out the cost to your business How much is injury costing your business

Understanding the financial implications of workplace injuries is critical for any business, not just from a compassionate standpoint, but also in terms of dollars and cents. With Employ Health’s advanced Cost of Injury Calculator, you can get a clearer picture of how injuries are impacting your bottom line.

Having health professionals onsite to assess worker injuries, actively involve the workforce in their wellness and strength, and aid with risk management strategies for worker jobs and tasks is contributing to a decline in worker injuries and enhancing worksite culture.

Collaborating with Employ Health for onsite physiotherapy in Brisbane includes a designated area onsite that functions as a Health Hub. Here, both preventive and rehabilitative exercise, as well as manual therapy, can be implemented for the workforce.

What Does Onsite Physiotherapy Involve?

Onsite physiotherapy is a broad term for several health and safety initiatives. These initiatives in Brisbane include, but are not limited to:

Advantages Of Physiotherapy For Your Brisbane Workplace

Aging Workforce

Businesses are beginning to face numerous challenges as the workforce ages. Older employees often experience diminished physical condition and capacity, with slower recovery times and a heightened risk of injury. Research also indicates older employees may have more chronic illnesses in their later years, leading to more extended periods of time off work. Employ Health can help manage these aspects of an aging workforce in Brisbane by assisting with maintaining aging workers' physical capacity and educating these workers on the right life choices to mitigate, or reduce the risk of, chronic health issues.

Increased Workers Compensation Claims & Premiums

Employ Health’s proactive approach onsite in Brisbane can assist with managing a workforce's health and prevent many injuries. This subsequently decreases the number of worker compensation claims and lowers the insurance premium that a business is required to pay each year. These savings can then be invested in further improvements to workers’ health and fitness, thereby enhancing productivity and culture onsite.

Lost Time & Productivity

A rise in injuries onsite results in a loss of skilled workers performing their jobs. In the case of an aging workforce, chronic illness and longer recovery time from injury will lead to increased lost time injuries. These experienced workers' absence combined with the need to train short-term replacement workers can inflate a company's expenses. An onsite physiotherapy program in Brisbane can help decrease and even eliminate the time lost due to chronic illness and worker injuries.

Poor Workplace Culture & Morale

Poor workplace culture and morale can stem from factors such as high injury rates, a perception among the workforce that management doesn't care about them, previous poor management practices, as well as poor worker health and/or work conditions. By investing in worker health and fitness, all of these issues can be addressed, leading to a happy, healthy, and productive workforce in Brisbane.

High Musculoskeletal Injury Rates

What Does A Brisbane Onsite Physiotherapy Program Include?

An onsite physiotherapy program in Brisbane includes a designated room on the worksite that is set up like a traditional physiotherapy clinic with space for diagnosing and treating any musculoskeletal injuries, and ideally space to also complete any rehabilitative or preventative exercise therapy.

Employ Health’s online data capturing and reporting systems help Brisbane workplaces identify which areas, shifts, and demographics in the workplace are reporting the most injuries. In collaboration with the site, we can assist with strategies to resolve these pain areas.

What Is Physiotherapy Good For?

Physiotherapy is a popular treatment option for a range of workplace-related conditions that involve the musculoskeletal system. Injuries in the workplace can be acute strain or sprains but a large proportion of injuries can also be cumulative injuries from repetitive work. Occupational physiotherapists are trained to recognise these conditions and treat them accordingly. They are also trained to be able to identify the aspects of the workers’ jobs contributing to these issues and make suitable adjustments to resolve the issue.

Physiotherapy For Back Pain

Accurately diagnosing the cause of a worker’s back pain will allow the treating physiotherapist to eliminate the tasks of their job contributing to this pain while they are treated with manual therapy and exercise rehabilitation to prevent future aggravations.

Physiotherapy For Neck Pain

Physiotherapists are trained with multiple techniques to be able to diagnose and treat all presentations of neck pain in a safe and effective manner. A worker’s comfort and safety are always the main focus of any treating Employ Health physiotherapist.

Physiotherapy For Shoulder Pain

Shoulder pain can be one of the most difficult areas to diagnose and treat correctly due to the joint's increased mobility. In most production jobs it is not unusual to see many upper limb and shoulder pathologies because of the repetitive nature of workers' jobs and tasks. Being able to correctly identify poor biomechanical control of the shoulder and anatomical positioning with work is important for resolving these conditions in the workforce.

Physiotherapy For Repetitive Strain Injuries

Due to the repetitive nature of many workers' jobs it is not uncommon to see a larger number of RSI in the workplace populace. Employ Health’s experience and training in these conditions is vital to getting the best and quickest outcomes for the worker and employer.

Why Choose Employ Health?

Employ Health solely hires full-time occupational health physiotherapists. All our time and training is dedicated to the running of successful onsite health hubs, physio, and health programs with no distractions from private practice or sporting team commitments. Since our

Frequently Asked Questions

It allows the worker to have any pain or discomfort diagnosed and treated immediately while onsite at work by trained professionals. It improves the workplace culture when workers are able to complete their jobs pain free.

An outcome measure is an objective measure that physiotherapists use to track a worker’s progress from presentation to release. It is used to show, from an objective standpoint, progress in the worker’s injury rehabilitation.

The appointment will be the same as attending a normal physiotherapist clinic with the clinician obtaining the worker’s personal contact details, medical history and consent forms followed by a full subjective and objective assessment and manual therapy or rehabilitation exercise as dictated by the assessment findings.

Onsite physiotherapy is not covered by health insurance as it is a free service provided by the worksite who have contracted Employ Health to deliver this service.