BACKSAFE Injury Prevention Program

BACKSAFE is an injury prevention program that reduces workers' compensation costs. It is designed to have long lasting effects on employees to reduce costly injuries both on and off the job. BACKSAFE is presently being used by Boeing, United Airlines, Air Canada, Chrysler, Toys ‘R Us and many other organizations of all descriptions.

We design job specific workshops that are aimed at training employees how to perform their jobs biomechanically correctly. We customize programs for all job descriptions including material handlers, truckers, law enforcement, construction, health care, etc and deliver these program on-site across the US and Canada utilizing our highly trained network of biomechanical experts. Our aim is to break workers' bad habits and replace them with healthier ones that they will apply on a daily basis.

We have developed our training techniques to ensure the worker "learns" proper biomechanical techniques. The key to our program is our kinetic learning module (obstacle course.) We teach employees how to do their jobs, in their work environment, biomechanically correctly under the supervision of our facilitators who coach them on how to do these tasks safely. The obstacle course is customized only after we have performed a thorough job site evaluation and employee interviews. We experience the typical routines of the employees to be able to specifically understand their job tasks and physical stresses on their bodies.

Each workshop takes approximately two hours for up to a maximum of twenty people at a time and a minimum of twelve employees.

Future Industrial Technologies, Inc. (FIT), 3505 Hope A201, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Tel: 805 563 2225; Fax: 805-563-2245.