preventing musculoskeletal injuries

Preventing Musculoskeletal Injuries
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Preventing musculoskeletal injuries.
Research shows that the rate at which musculoskeletal injuries in the workplaces have been on the rise, the consequences are unending legal suits by the workers demanding compensation. The legal complaints are hurting the organizations and especially in clinical environments where the complaints have escalated. People have become familiar with their work rights which makes them search for legal remedies once such injuries are experienced. The legal process demands a lot of the organization’s resources which could be channeled towards other uses. The remedy would be preventing the occurrence of the musculoskeletal injuries at the workplace.
As the old adage goes, prevention is better than cure, the ability of the organizations in the clinical environment to reduce the legal obligations when such cases arise would reduce the losses experienced in such processes. The participants in the clinical environment can reduce the legal obligations by ensuring that every equipment or tool used in the organization is under maintenance. Proper maintenance of the tools and equipment’s ensures that everything is working in the right condition and chances of the breakdown are low (Davis et al., 2015). The manual for using workplace tools should be presented to the workers before any contact with the tool to ensure that the tools are used in the right way.
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