ErgoWellness offers this service to Employers and Businesses in the East and West Kootenays and Okanagan. A Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) Risk Assessment is a detailed onsite analysis to identify factors in your workplace that may expose workers to risk of a MSI. An MSI is an injury or disorder of the muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints, nerves, blood vessels or soft tissue and can occur in any type of workplace.  These assessments may be requested for businesses and organizations by worker's compensation boards.

Benefits to the Employer and Business:

PREVENTS INJURIES & ACCIDENTS

- identifies areas of risks for MSI

- prioritizes your risk control efforts

- eliminates or minimizes injuries to workers

- improves overall health of employees as the job demands have few injury risk factors

HELPS THE WORKER SUSTAIN THEIR WORKLOAD OR RETURN TO WORK AFTER AN INJURY

- supplies information to Worker's Compensation Board

- identifies alternate work tasks or modified work tasks when a worker is currently at work or returning to work after an injury

SAVES MONEY

- reduces worker's compensation claims

- faster and safer return to work process

- more successful and durable sustained workloads and return to work cases

- increased productivity