Safety Unpacked - Wear and Tear with Amy Morris

The title of the page is just The Myth of Wear and Tear.

It's an article by Matthew Green, who is the founder of Body Guide and has written the book I'm Sick of Being Sore.

He does a lot in the return to work injury management space.

So the article summarizes a few things he uses in his practice and what he's got in his book as well.

We've got a few references to different studies in the health industry around injuries, scans, that sort of space for injuries, and how that relates to physical work.

So the work in health and safety space, we're talking manual handling here, manual handling and ergonomics.

How does this relate to our industry, the prevention mechanisms available, and potentially are we thinking about it the wrong way? That's

high level.

That's high level.

I feel like you did really well with high level.

Absolutely.

And I loved it because there was a couple of things that triggered my little brain straight away.

I shouldn't say little brain.

I'm sure there's a big brain in there.

And it was talking particularly about, you know, I guess the concept of wear and tear on the body and that when we go and, you know, scan people for things and what that data tells us.

And that got me thinking, I think it was last year, we had a webinar with one of the doctors from one of our corporate partners is Phoenix Occupational Medicine.

And we're talking with one of their doctors, they were talking about to scan or not to scan and that Yeah, so I've got their article on the side to kind of just pull some points to that.

But I will start with the reason I thought it was actually quite funny that we said we'll record it this week was a concept of wear and tear, how we design work.

you know, manual handling, all the rest.

My brother was down here on the weekend and he said to me, he was really frustrated that he went to a medical and they told him to squat all the way down and basically walk like a duck.

Now he's older and uglier than me and said that his knees wouldn't allow that to happen.

And he's like, he's a crane driver.

What do I need to walk like a duck in my job for? There is nothing in my role from a functional capacity perspective that would ever require that to happen.

So why are we doing it? And, you know, for me, that was such a direct linkage to what this article, I guess, is considering is that are we designing work and are we identifying a body that I guess is designed to break in the future? And we know that wear and tear over time.

And yeah, I thought it was an interesting one to start with.