Back Safety in Industrial Environments

This online course covers safe lifting practices, as well as important information that everyone should know about the most common back injuries.

Course Overview

This online Back Safety course covers safe lifting practices as well as important information that all individuals should know about the most common back injuries.

Using the innovative Whole Life/Health Cycle safety training approach, this Back Safety course explores habits that can keep employees safe, healthy and productive.

Successful completion of this course enables one to:

  • Describe how the human back works
  • Explain how things like posture, sleep positions, physical fitness, and nutrition contribute to back health
  • Justify the importance of warming up before physical activity
  • Identify the right - and wrong - way to lift

Course Topics

  • Anatomy of the back
  • The Whole Life/Health cycle
  • Lifting safety
  • Back exercises