Posted on the 17th of October 2011 in News & Views
Did you know that back pain affects around 80% of us at sometime in our lives?
Many things may cause back problems, but the accumulated effect of regular poor posture is one of the contributory factors.
Poor posture when sitting and standing and poor posture and technique when lifting and carrying are covered in two of our training programmes – Manual Handling in the Workplace and Display Screen Equipment Training.
In these programmes the training concentrates on personal awareness, demonstrating best practice and looking at how simple adjustments can be made to improve safety and help avoid potential problems.
This week is BACK CARE AWARENESS WEEK – an appropriate time to make improvements to increase the chances of avoiding back pain.
Lifting and carrying are things we all do everyday – manual handling actually includes any task that involves moving an object of any size or weight from one position to another, so lifting, carrying, pulling, pushing – these are all manual handling. And it’s really easy to do BADLY. Luckily it’s not difficult to master GOOD manual handling technique and our training shows you effective lifting techniques, how to prepare for a lift, how your body works during a lift and how injuries can occur when it’s done incorrectly. Watch the short demonstration of using the iHasco Manual Handling training programme.
Knowing how to set up a workstation and acting upon this knowledge is a simple and cost effective way to improve the chances of avoiding back pain, both now and in the future. And everyone who spends a good deal of their day sitting at a desk, especially in front of a computer, should know how best to sit and work and how to properly set up their chair and desk, to encourage good posture. The positioning of computer screen, mouse and keyboard are also extremely important to posture and should be taken into account in office workstation design. Watch the short demonstration of using the iHasco DSE training programme.
Some minor adjustments to sitting position or desk layout and following proper technique when lifting and carrying could be all that is needed to make the difference between a healthy back and storing up problems for the future – really simple, low-cost and effective adjustments to help avoid workplace MSDs.
Posted on the 13th of October 2011 in News & Views
After a slightly longer wait than anticipated the CD-ROM version of our brand-new training programme SLIPs, TRIPs and FALLs is finally available!
All PRE-ORDERs and preview requests are being packaged up right now as our priority to be sent out TODAY. So, if you have been eagerly awaiting your copy, it should be with you by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
If you would like to order or view a copy call us on our FREEphone number 0800 612 7088 or email us.
Our apologies for the delay.
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Posted on the 10th of October 2011 in News & Views
We now have 987 schools all over Great Britain using our health and safety training!
We would love to reach (and exceed!) 1,000 schools and when we reach our 1,000th school customer EVERY school using our training will be entered into a draw and the lucky winner will receive a hamper from us! Just give us a call on 0800 612 7088 or email us on enquiries@ihasco.co.uk to set up a trial or purchase your health and safety training programmes. All schools currently using our programmes will be automatically entered into the draw.
And we know from the brilliant feedback we've been getting from schools that our health and safety programmes really suit you!
Asking for feedback and adding it onto our website is a new feature added to our system when we redesigned the iHasco website in September. In just the few weeks since then we have received nearly 500 reviews already with an average star rating of 4.24 (out of 5) which we think is amazing. Thank you to all school staff who have added such brilliant comments to our reviews, we look forward to seeing more of the same!
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Posted on the 28th of September 2011 in News & Views
Do you have 20 employees or less? iHasco can now offer a fantastic training package just for you.
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Posted on the 26th of September 2011 in Offers
Special offer through til the end of September to everyone trialling training programmes from iHasco!
Thank you for taking the time to preview health and safety training programmes from iHasco. We hope that you are finding them useful and can see their training potential in your company?
From now until the end of September we'd like to encourage you to BUY the programmes you have on trial and would be pleased to offer you another title COMPLETELY FREE if you so so!
AND THIS INCLUDES our brand-new title SLIPs, TRIPs and FALLs.
To take us up on this brilliant offer, give us a quick call on our FREEPHONE number 0800 612 7088 and quote REF ALL023, letting us know which of our brilliant programmes you would like to receive FREE.
We'd love you to become customers!
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