SPONSORED BY ORCHID LIVE.COM
FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website first).
Overview:
Be MSK Aware
Musculoskeletal (MSK) problems such as back pain, arthritis, sprains and strains are the most common problem in the workplace and are one of the commonest causes of absence from work. A musculoskeletal (MSK) healthy workplace enables people to be healthy, fit and stay in work.
Are you MSK Aware? Join the webinar and learn about key actions you can take to support high quality MSK health for everyone in the workplace by promoting MSK health, preventing MSK problems arising in the workplace and supporting those with MSK problems to stay in work. Be MSK Aware, be proactive, take a strategic approach that is effective and meaningful, which builds on your legal duties to create a MSK healthy workplace.
Speaker:
Professor Anthony D Woolf, FRCP
Consultant Rheumatologist
Chair, Cornwall Arthritis Trust
Director, MSK Aware CIC
Co-Chair, Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (G-MUSC)
Professor Anthony Woolf is a consultant rheumatologist previously at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK. He has held honorary chairs in Rheumatology at the University of Exeter Medical School, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, and visiting Professor in Musculoskeletal Science, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden. He is co-chair of the Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (G-MUSC).
His work focuses on influencing policy and practice nationally and internationally providing the evidence for gaining priority and the tools to implement change to benefit individuals through prevention and control of musculoskeletal conditions. In particular he focuses on what we need to do through the lifecourse to support musculoskeletal health to enable us to maintain our physical capacity, remain in the labour market and for healthy productive ageing.
He works with WHO, EU and in the UK with NHS England, OHID/Public Health England and Department of Work and Pensions to ensure musculoskeletal health is in all policies – health, social and employment.
FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website). You will then be sent the join link.
We'd like to thank our sponsor - Orchid Live. Orchid Live is specialist occupational health software used by a number of SOM members to run every aspect of their occupational health operations. They hold healthcare records for over 1 million UK workers and work with both in-house OH teams and OH providers. You can find out more at OrchidLive.com
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