Job Summary
This position provides industrial injury prevention program services focused on total worker health.
Services provided within OSHA first aid guidelines across a region at designated service centers.
Regions Covered: Daly City, San Carlos, and Brisbane, CA.
Schedule: Monday - Friday 6:00am - 2:30pm +/- 1 hour based on seasonality and location.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide triage, first-aid, education and/or escalation of care if needed
- Facilitate on-going communication with all parties involved in managing an injury case
- Support the injured employee, monitor medical care, promote efficient reporting, and participate in accident investigation
- Assist in finding temporarily modified work in compliance with physical restrictions
- Help employees prevent repetitive, cumulative and overuse type musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses
- Conduct ergonomic analyses in order to provide recommendations on vehicle set up, work posture, tool use, and workstation modifications
- Provide on-the-job education and coaching to help workers achieve and maintain physical resilience through optimizing body mechanics and postural habits
- Assist employees in achieving sustained lifestyle improvements in areas such as nutritional health, physical fitness, and stress management
- Address and mitigate risks related to workers’ total health, therefore reducing the risk of job-related injuries and illnesses
- Develop job-specific agility routines and programs to be implemented in a preventative method a.k.a. Work Hardening.
- Minimize risk of injury through awareness, education, ergonomic recommendations, and first aid
- Proactively engage with employees at their work location
- Maintain records of triage, ergonomic assessment, first-aid care, and education provided
- Gain full understanding of the site operations, workflow, processes, and employees in order to make recommendations for preventing musculoskeletal injuries from occurring
- Leverage technology available to support total worker health
- Work in partnership with other WorkCare service lines (Incident Intervention, Onsite Clinics, etc.)
- Perform additional duties and assume additional responsibilities as identified by manager for the efficient operation of WorkCare