Public Risk Management

Steven Clark, is WorkStrategies’ National Director at Select Medical. He explains Injury Prevention Programs and Early Symptom Intervention. He discusses the primary drivers and strategies that employers should be looking at in order to prevent or reduce incidents in the workplace: Functional Employment Testing, Educational Programs, Ergonomics, and Early Symptom Intervention. He provides data of the greatest injury types, their costs, and how to decrease them. He also shares the highest risk factors: repetitive motion, forceful exertions, environmental, the combination of factors, personal, and pre-existing conditions. He explains how to identify the factors, break them down in order to associate them with tasks, then leading to a solution.