Industrial Injury Prevention Specialist - Indianapolis, IN

Job Summary

Industrial Injury Prevention Specialists are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to provide a proactive approach to the prevention and management of workplace injuries and illnesses.

Services provided by the Specialist include prevention, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

Industrial Injury Prevention Specialists work under the direction of physicians.

Schedule: Monday - Friday 3:00pm - 11:00pm.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide triage, first-aid, education and/or escalation of care if needed.
• Facilitate on-going communication with all parties involved in managing an injury case.
• Support the injured employee, monitor medical care, promote efficient reporting and participate in accident investigation.
• Assist in finding temporarily modified work in compliance with physical restrictions.
• Help employees prevent repetitive, cumulative and overuse type musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses.
• Conduct ergonomic analysis in order to provide recommendations on workstation modifications.
• Provide on-the-job education and coaching to help workers achieve and maintain physical resilience through optimizing body mechanics and postural habits.
• Assist employees in achieving sustained lifestyle improvements in areas such as nutritional health, physical fitness and stress management.
• Address and mitigate risks related to workers’ total health, therefore reducing the risk of job-related injuries and illnesses.
• Develop job-specific agility routines and programs to be implemented in a preventative method.
• Minimize risk of injury through awareness, education, ergonomic recommendations and first-aid.
• Proactively engage with employees at their work location.
• Maintain records of triage, ergonomic assessment, first-aid care, and education provided.
• Gain full understanding of the site operations, work-flow, processes and employees in order to make recommendations for preventing musculoskeletal injuries from occurring.
• Performs additional duties and assumes additional responsibilities as identified by supervisor for the efficient operation of Client Operations.