WORKPLACE INJURY PREVENTION - A FIT FOR WORK PODCAST

Dr. Ben Hoffman talks with us about post offer testing and finding the right employees for your job, along with improving work processes at the same time with job analysis.

Diana Stegall, the National President of the American Society of Safety Professionals, lets us interview her about how the ASSP is able to be an invaluable resource to companies and individuals who work in and care about safety. She also discusses the ASSP's global reach, and how students and young professionals can benefit from membership and grants.

Al Lewis, a two time best selling author, joins the podcast to discuss the economics and effectiveness of wellness programs that require employees to participate in health challenges. He discusses how they affect employees personally and companies financially, all while providing a 3 million dollar challenge to anyone who can prove these programs save money.

Matt Herron, who is a Senior Safety Engineer at Southwest Research Institute, joins Ambjor and I to discuss the implementation of near miss-near hit programs. We also talk about how to keep these programs going so all employees feel responsible for safety.

Ken Erickson is an entrepreneur who sought to make a company that removes the inefficiency that come along with providing prescription safety glasses to employees. He founded Bridgmart to do just that, and we learn about how his company is making the whole process simpler for everyone involved

Today we interview Theresa English, who is the South Texas Chapter President of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). We learn the 5 W's of the society such as who can become a member, what their mission is, and how you can benefit with minimal time commitment.

In this episode Ambjor and I interview Damon Shodrock and we get to learn from his expertise about how to have a proper and complaint training program for power industrial trucks.

We spend some time talking with Ronald Porter about his company, The Back School. We discuss how he got started and how he is seeking to help individuals and companies take care of their employees.

James Rethaber joins the podcast to discuss how ergonomic assessments, when properly done, can dramatically reduce cost and widen the hiring pool of employees through making the job more accessible.

Our interview with Forrest Richardson, Safety Division Director at Fit For Work. His job is the help clients be complaint with Federal regulatory agencies and he gives very useful advice specifically on what OSHA expects, and how to use a safety audit to help make your workplace safer for everyone.

We interview Kier Barbour, the Risk Manager for CRH New England Group. Kier found himself in the same position of many safety personal, falling into the position as opposed to having it be a position he strove to be in. He shares his experiences and insights of helping employees feel important and appreciated in their journey of getting the help they need to enjoy life.

In this interview we talk with Adriaan Louw, one of the world leaders in pain research. He shares simple and valuable insights on what pain is, why it is misunderstood, and how to avoid making those who feel it, feel worse.

This is the second half of our interview with Keith and Tom where we discuss how their initial idea of Fit For Work caused them to make a lot of decisions to grow. We discuss how they were intentional in those choices, along with what they hope current and future providers always remember when working with employees.

We interview the co-founders of Fit For Work, Keith Adamson and Tom Tobin, and found out how we these two men were inspired and directed to keep employees from becoming patients. They share their insights on what they set to accomplish and also words of wisdom that they hope will continue to embraced by Fit For Work.

In this episode we interview Kyle Mahlum, the COO of Fit For Work. Kyle has been essential in helping grow Fit For Work, and he does that with his love of helping people. We discuss how he loves to see results and how both providers and clients can use the data collected by Fit For Work to make changes that take care of a workplaces most important asset, the employees.

We kick off our podcast with interviewing John Groves, the CEO of Fit For Work. John has had an exciting journey that started in his early days of health care of wanting to get ahead of injuries to help people not get caught in the endless cycle of reactive health care. We discuss how workplace injuries are the major portion of cost for companies, and how Fit For Work is helping companies lower th...

A conversation with host Curtis Kopotic and co-host Ambjor Brown introducing the purpose of Work Place Injury Prevention: The Fit For Work Podcast. We will be discussing how we got into this setting as well as an overview of who we will be interviewing to get their perspective on the ever growing world of injury prevention.