Why use the BACK-TRACKTM System?

• The risks of poor manual handling practice are well known.
• The costs of back injury; financial and personal are considerable.
• All organisations are obligated to train employees in safe manual handling practices.

So why do manual handling injuries account for so many reportable injuries?

Because correct manual handling technique is not easy.

A recent Finnish study of 18,000 workers of which half had received and half had not received manual handling training, showed no difference in back injury rates.

The researchers concluded that, either:

• The advocated manual handling techniques do not actually work in reducing back injury statistics,
• Following manual handling training, employees do not change their habits sufficiently for them to make a difference

General consensus supports that the advocated manual handling techniques are accepted as being appropriate; however they are not adopted by those exposed to manual handling risk.

BACK-TRACK Europe has established why the advocated techniques are not adopted;

Stooping is seemingly harmless, it's easy and doesn't hurt.

Whereas the advocated squat method requires; conditioning of under-used thigh muscles good balance and practice, and most importantly; The advocated method requires individuals to change their ingrained behaviour

That is why many large organisations have adopted the BACK-TRACKTM System - to change behaviour!