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"Investing in good health risk management can contribute to business success.
Musculoskeletal problems cost money from sickness absence, high staff turnover, retraining and loss of production. Compensation claims are increasing, and problems may affect employers' insurance premiums. Reducing health risks at work leads to reduced fatigue, improved staff motivation and increased productivity. I want to see record participation in this year's European Week for Safety and Health':
A REAL PAIN IN THE NECK
Back and related muscular pains have been recognised as an epidemic throughout the western world. Significantly contributed to by an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, the problems cross the bounds of most industries and pastimes. But, while spread evenly across the community in terms of age, sex and geography, much is influenced by occupation.
Whether it's an office worker who can spend anything between 25 and 40 hours a week sitting in a static position at a desk, a driver covering more than 25,000 miles a year, a nurse lifting patients, an agricultural or construction worker or the frequent user of a computer or mobile phone, back and other musculoskeletal disorders can have a debilitating effect. One in ten of all major injuries takes place while lifting, handling or carrying.
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