Successful Outcomes

Successful injury/illness prevention and ergonomics programs address the needs of both individual workers and employers.

A comprehensive occupational health injury/illness prevention and ergonomics program developed, implemented, and managed by a physical therapist will explicitly define the:

1) Scope of the program, program plan, relevant policies and procedures,

2) Authorities, responsibilities, accountabilities of those participating in the program,

3) Surveillance strategy, benchmark, baseline, and triggering indicators, and intervention protocols,

4) Content and process of report generation, report distribution,

5) Maintenance of the program, and

6) Methods of program evaluation and improvement through measures that determine actual outcomes.