By gaining a greater understanding of the complexities of pain, and analysing the typical pathways to manage injuries the audience can evaluate their own current systems. It will solidify the audience’ knowledge surrounding Wellness and its interaction with the management and identification of injury, fatigue and mental wellness. These ideas are a collaboration from the sporting field, pain science and behavioural sciences in a new paradigm that we can use to think about the workplace. Organisations need to begin to think about the human element onsite and not just the Zero harm approach, but improve health from the workplace. Learning outcomes Analyse and refine the fundamentals of injury management Understanding of the new Pain science What are the contributors to pain Ways to reduce injury through Wellness

1. Safety & Wellness

2. Who am I
• Exercise Physiologist
– Griffith University lecturer
• Masters of Physiotherapy
– Sports Physiotherapist
• World Rally, Fiji International, Cirque Du Soleil
– GP specialist
• Safe and Healthy People
• COPD training program
– Corporate
• Safe and Healthy
– Fletcher Techniques
• Breath training

3. What are we talking about

4. • Employers responsibility
– to ensure so far as reasonably practicable the
safety, health and welfare at work of employees
– take measures to reduce risk
• Employees responsibility
– take reasonable care for own safety & of others
– to do all that’s necessary to be fit and ready for
work
Ethos

5. Stand Up & Stretch

7. 3110 patients

8. Positive injury experience
WHAT WE THINK
• Health professionals always
do the right thing
• We must diagnose and look
for source of pain
• Rest is the best treatment
• GP knows everything
(Paavola, 2018 – Shoulder surgery vs
No surgery 12 months)
WHAT WE KNOW
• Health professionals like
money
• We donMt know very much
about pain
• Its becoming clearer its not
related to structure
• Rest is the worst treatment
• Empathy & Support

10. Stress. … Colleagues
Contexts
Support Job security
People
Environment
Thoughts about pain
Stress Coping strategies
Postures

11. Empower Team Leaders
• Early identification
• ITs OK Training
– Fatigue Mx
– Injury Mx
– Mental Wellness
• Toolbox talks
• RTW Plans

12. Injury Management
• EARLY IDENTIFICATION
• Look for other signs first
– New baby
– Returning from holiday
– RELATIVE load increase (ACWR)
• Movement
• Avoidance behavior
• Irritability

13. Disturbance Deep Sleep
Snoring on back

14. Manufacturing Co.
• Average sleep duration
– Average of 6.24 hrs
• Sleep Quality
– 88% of participants were high risk
• Insomnia
– 75% took > 30mins to fall asleep
• 21% were mod/sev risk of OSA
• Daytime dysfunction
• 62.5% reported poor eating on night shift
• 66% had waist circumference at high risk

15. Fatigue and Injury

16. ABInBev – Yatala site

17. Safe & Healthy
e. james@safeandhealthy.com.au
m. 0451709097