Repetitive Strain Injury from work

swingaloo2

I dont think there are many jobs at all that dont have some element of risk. Shelf fillers get repetitive strain injury problems, gardeners have problems, drivers have problems. Anything you have to do for several hours at a time is going to have some impact on your body. 
Not everyone will be affected the same way. I love gardening but know it plays hell with my knees so I got a kneeling cushion.  I dont understand all this  blame culture. Parts of the body dont suddenly start to hurt in one day, it builds up  so why not take steps to jelp yourself when it is happening. If your knees hurt and you know you have to spend a lot of time at work kneeling or crouching then why not take steps to help yourself rather than waiting till it gets to a bad state and then looking to blame an employer.
If what you do at work is having a negative effect on your health why not talk to your employer and find ways to help yourself. I dont understand the comment 'If I had been warned of the risk I could have avoided it'. Why would anyone need to be warned that repetative kneeling is going to have an impact on the knees.

Takeaway_Addict

swingaloo2 said:

I dont think there are many jobs at all that dont have some element of risk. Shelf fillers get repetitive strain injury problems, gardeners have problems, drivers have problems. Anything you have to do for several hours at a time is going to have some impact on your body. 
Not everyone will be affected the same way. I love gardening but know it plays hell with my knees so I got a kneeling cushion.  I dont understand all this  blame culture. Parts of the body dont suddenly start to hurt in one day, it builds up  so why not take steps to jelp yourself when it is happening. If your knees hurt and you know you have to spend a lot of time at work kneeling or crouching then why not take steps to help yourself rather than waiting till it gets to a bad state and then looking to blame an employer.
If what you do at work is having a negative effect on your health why not talk to your employer and find ways to help yourself. I dont understand the comment 'If I had been warned of the risk I could have avoided it'. Why would anyone need to be warned that repetative kneeling is going to have an impact on the knees.

You are absolutely right but ultimately the employer still holds the end responsibility. The OP should have had sense and looked to mitigate the issue herself but for whatever reason didn't

Loulou2017

How can you mitigate when you don't know about it 🤔.
Plus I'm been back over the manual handling training and it has no info about providing lower limbs (only back) plus some of it is what I'm been told by physio not to do to protect knees.

Loulou2017

So had meeting with Occupational health, they said I'm on admin duties till knee has been fixed (looks like it's going to need a op).
I asked them about the manual handling training and they said to take it to HR , which I'm going to do. Should be a fun conversation 👍

oh_really

Be careful with how you deal with this. Manual handling training is for the employers benefit (certainly in this case if there are failings),view as a tick box exercise enabling the employer to demonstrate the employee has been provided with the appropriate information in relation to the job they are employed to carry out. This, in conjunction with a risk assessment, will see the employer shift the onus onto yourself and away from them.

Takeaway_Addict

oh_really said:

Be careful with how you deal with this. Manual handling training is for the employers benefit (certainly in this case if there are failings),view as a tick box exercise enabling the employer to demonstrate the employee has been provided with the appropriate information in relation to the job they are employed to carry out. This, in conjunction with a risk assessment, will see the employer shift the onus onto yourself and away from them.

Suspect in this case its a bit horse, bolted etc