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Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Awareness Day

Work Shouldn’t Hurt: Repetitive Strain Injuries Awareness Day 2018

February 28, 2018

Approximately 2.3 million Canadian adults are crippled, annually, by repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), seriously limiting their daily activities.

RSIs are one of the most common types of injuries in the workplace. RSIs or MSDs painfully effect muscles, nerves, and joints in the neck, back, chest, shoulders, arms, and hands.

As we recognize Repetitive Strain Injuries Awareness Day, on February 28, the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Prevention Link encourages every Ontarian to support the many workers who fall victim to one of the most common types of injuries in the workplace.

Work shouldn’t hurt! The majority of RSIs or MSDs are preventable There are crucial steps you can take to help build awareness around RSIs, including:

  • Early reporting of symptoms and hazards to supervisors
  • Implementation of ergonomic prevention solutions
  • Worker involvement in suggestions and implementation
  • Timely reporting to the WSIB of work-related MSD
  • Quality training to address these issues and more

Through our work, Prevention Link aims to prevent more MSDs workplace injuries. Our Lighthouse Initiative serves several categories of vulnerable workers: those returning to work after an injury; and those who may not have been injured but have limited knowledge of occupational health and safety laws and available resources.

Filed Under: News, Press release Tagged With: musculoskeletal disorders, Ontario Federation of Labour, Ontario Ministry of Labour's Prevention Office, Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Awareness Day

Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Awareness Day 2017

February 28, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                            

(TORONTO, ON) ─  On this Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Awareness Day, Ontario Federation of Labour’s Prevention Link urges all Ontarians to recognize and support the many workers who fall victim to one of the most common types of injuries in the workplace.

Repetitive Strain Injuries are one of the most common types of injuries in the workplace. RSI’s or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) painfully effect muscles, nerves, and joints in the neck, back, chest, shoulders, arms, and hands.

Read the full RSI statement from the Ontario Federation of Labour.

Prevention Link is developing its Lighthouse Initiative to serve two categories of vulnerable workers: those returning to work after an injury; and those who may not have been injured, but have limited knowledge of occupational health and safety laws and available resources. Through our work we look to prevent more MSDs workplace injuries.

We also encourage all workers to utilize disability prevention principles, which is why the Return to Work (RTW) consulting branch of Prevention Link facilitates a strategic fit with workplace return-to-work best practices and all applicable rights.

Prevention Link, which is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Labour’s Prevention Office and governed by the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Executive Committee, is the leading provider of training and advisory support on secondary prevention of workplace injury in the province. For information, visit preventionlink.ca and follow @PreventionLink on Facebook and Twitter.

The OFL represents 54 unions and one million workers in Ontario. For information, visit www.OFL.ca and follow @OFLabour on Facebook and Twitter.

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For further information:
Ogho Ikhalo
Senior Communications & Outreach Lead
Prevention Link
416-443-7654
oikhalo@preventionlink.ca

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: musculoskeletal disorders, Ontario Federation of Labour, Ontario Ministry of Labour's Prevention Office, Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Awareness Day

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