Back injuries can be devastating to employees who suffer them — and a few best practices can prevent these problems. What should your team members learn from training?
From the warehouse to the office, back injuries are a risk for employees.
Back injuries are both relatively common and potentially devastating. In many kinds of workplaces, preventing these incidents from occurring comes down to a blend of factors, from setting up the work environment in ergonomically friendly ways to investing in appropriate training. Many of the day-to-day activities performed by workers could be harmful if done in an incorrect manner. As a workplace leader, it’s up to you to make sure your team is staying safe. Continue reading
Ever since we started falling asleep in school during our teachers’ lectures, we’ve all wanted our education to be enjoyable. Companies spend billions of dollars trying to develop training programs that entertain as well as inform; the most recent innovation in this respect is gamification, which is estimated to be a $2.8 billion industry in and of itself by 2015. Also, innumerable studies have demonstrated that if a particular subject is taught in a humorous or entertaining way, audiences remember a higher percentage of the subject material and retain that knowledge for a longer period of time. So not only is entertaining training more fun to begin with, it’s also more effective – which means less money that you’ll have to spend on re-training, which means more money you’ll have for the company holiday party, which means you’ll get to eat more pie. And I think all of us could do with a little more pie. 
