As one of Australia’s largest workplace rehabilitation providers, KINNECT’s onsite physiotherapists have the specialist knowledge that will keep your workforce safe and healthy.
Our onsite physiotherapists are a smart investment in your business. They can partner with you to identify potential sources of injuries, provide on-site assessments, treatment and injury management, helping you avoid the costs associated with lost productivity, long-term absence and high workers’ compensation premiums.
KINNECT are experienced in delivering tailored onsite physiotherapy programs for a range of industries, including manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, healthcare, logistics and government.
Why Choose KINNECT for Onsite Physiotherapy Services
For organisations with a large workforce in one location onsite physiotherapy clinics can improve workplace productivity and deliver better recovery outcomes by having a treating clinician who understands your physical workplace, your culture, and your unique injury management and return-to-work processes.
KINNECT believes in going beyond service provision, so we take a proactive partnership approach to onsite physiotherapy.
We can help you integrate onsite physiotherapy into your existing occupational health plans and policies and partner with you to ensure your workers get the greatest benefit.
KINNECT can also provide a range of complementary services such as strengthening programs, dynamic warm-ups, and manual handling training for a comprehensive injury prevention program.
Why are Onsite Physiotherapy Services Valuable?
- Early intervention for minor discomfortscan prevent major injuries, lost-time incidents (LTIs), and unnecessary doctor and emergency department visits which often result in unnecessary compensation claims.
- Non-work-related injuries can be treated onsite to ensure they are managed before they become aggravated at work. This provides you with clear records, prevents claims in the future and ensures your workers are healthy and safe.
- Onsite physiotherapists can deliver structured recover-at-work programs with role-specific advice, reducing the risk of employees being off work for longer than necessary.
- Trends in injuries can be identified early (for example, a series of shoulder injuries occurring in a specific job role), and modifications can be made to reduce injury frequency.
- Onsite physiotherapists can observe and analyse workers conducting tasks with high musculoskeletal risks, providing expert advice on workplace ergonomics both for how to perform the work and workstation setup.
“There is strong evidence that recovery at work and early return to good work can help recovery and prevent secondary complications associated with time away from work.”
FAQ
What facilities are required for an Onsite Physiotherapy Clinic?
It is our opinion that for onsite physiotherapy to be seen as a professional service, be successful and have ongoing durability, it is essential that a permanent treatment room be established onsite and fitted out as if it were an external private practice clinic. Having existing physiotherapy clinics in several locations throughout Queensland, KINNECT can assist with the development of such treatment room and the ongoing ordering of consumables.
The setup of an Onsite Physiotherapy room will be completely funded by KINNECT, all that is required from your company is the allocation of a dedicated room and/or space.
How does an Onsite Physiotherapist logistically work?
Employees having the ability to make appointments online, onsite or via KINNECT’s dedicated phone line. As a reminder of and to ensure compliance with appointment dates and times, KINNECT ensures all workers attending physiotherapy sessions receive a text message 24 hours prior to their appointment. These messages allow workers to respond if they are unable to attend or wish to change their appointment dates/times.
What other services can the Onsite Physiotherapist perform?
It is in our opinion that the effectiveness of an Onsite Physiotherapy Program is enhanced when combined with targeted injury prevention interventions, usually delivered during periods where the uptake of hands on physiotherapy treatment is low.
During times where KINNECT are not providing physiotherapy services, it is standard practice for KINNECT to attend and assess work areas. The review of work tasks ensures that workers are using correct body mechanics / ergonomics to reduce the likelihood of future injury.
Given KINNECT’s experience in delivering large scale Manual Handling Interventions with government organisations, industrial and mining companies, KINNECT also have the capacity to deliver such programs. Such interventions can be performed during the agreed days/times that KINNECT is to attend site and deliver onsite treatment. KINNECT have the capacity to deliver such programs in group settings as well as on a one on one basis with the worker.
KINNECT can deliver the following Injury Prevention and Management Services while being engaged for the delivery on Onsite Physiotherapy:
- Worksite assessments and development of suitable duties plans, and the monitoring of such plans;
- Risk assessment of tasks identified as potential causes of injury;
- The development and delivery of a pre-start warm up/ stretching program (KINNECT’s “SmartStretch” Program);
- The development and delivery of manual handling programs;
- The development and delivery of Health and Wellbeing programs covering such topics as fatigue management, heat and hydration, sun and skin cancer protection, men’s health etc;
- The development of job dictionaries for all roles to allow for streamlined return to work processes;
- Ergonomic assessments of office based employees;
- Work hardening/physical conditioning programs.
What ROI does Onsite Physiotherapy offer?
The effectiveness of early intervention has been well documented in numerous case studies.
One such study is the introduction of an early intervention program for poultry meat processing workers. Through onsite physiotherapy, the poultry meat processing plant was able to achieve an 18% reduction in workers compensation claims. They also achieved a 37% reduction in days absent and a $831 reduction in average costs per claim (Donovan et al., 2017)¹.
Another recent study investigated the introduction of a workplace-based program aimed at reducing musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) in healthcare workers. The early intervention program reduced compensation and healthcare costs and provided quicker return to work outcomes (Badii et al., 2006)².
- Donovan, M, Khan, A & Johnston, V. (2016). The effect of a workplace-based early intervention program on work-related musculoskeletal compensation outcomes at a poultry meat processing plant. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 27.
- Badii, M, Keen, D, Yu, S & Yassi, A (2006). Evaluation of a comprehensive integrated workplace-based program to reduce occupational musculoskeletal injury and its associated morbidity in a large hospital. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 48, pp. 1159-65.
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