OXNARD/SAN FRANCISCO -- State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a specially focused ergonomics seminar “Watch Your Back: State Fund's Back Connection™,” in Oxnard July 12. The seminar is available to any State Fund policyholder free of charge and is designed to show policyholders how to prevent back injuries and increase worker productivity.

The seminar highlights “State Fund's Back Connection™,” an educational and easy-to-use DVD. The innovative and interactive program is designed with the idea that preventing a back injury is much easier than repairing one. Since healthy backs are essential to worker productivity, employers must help workers use safe work practices and engage workers in this process. Policyholders will receive the interactive DVD free of charge, as well as a complete overview of its features. It provides all the resources needed by employers to develop an effective back injury prevention process customized to their business.

Featured speakers at the seminar will be State Fund ergonomics specialists. They will show employers how to take a proactive approach to the preven­tion of workplace musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), by reducing the risk of developing repetitive motion injuries and other job-related strains and sprains. The ergonomics team will also show policyholders how to develop their own ergonomic programs and how to implement them. Attendees will also learn how to evaluate their operations, identify unsafe acts, compare alternatives for reducing the chance of injury, and how to implement or monitor injury loss prevention methods.

The workshop is designed for those who can make a dif­ference in reducing the risk of back injuries at their worksite, including business owners, frontline managers and supervisors, safety managers, maintenance supervisors, chief financial officers, or anyone in the organization responsible for employee safety

The seminar will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at State Fund’s Oxnard District Office, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 2901 N. Ventura Road. Registration and complimentary continental breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. To register, please call Alberto Aldana at (805) 988-5270, or send a fax to his attention at (805) 988-5201. To register via email, please email
Alberto Aldana.

The Oxnard seminar is part of a series of educational programs State Compensation Insurance Fund is holding throughout the state in order to help employers create safe workplaces. State Fund has the largest safety and health services program among California workers’ compensation insurance carriers.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Established by the California Legislature in 1914, San Francisco-based State Compensation Insurance Fund is a self-supporting, nonprofit, fairly competitive public enterprise that provides workers’ compensation insurance coverage at cost to California employers.