Strain and Sprain Control Strategy
This document is a working tool developed in cooperation between the WSIB and OFSWA in consultation and collaboration with participant mills. The strategy was initiated in December of 2003 and launched in March 2004.

The purpose of the Workplace Strain and Sprain Injury Control Strategy is to assist workplace parties such as mill operators, managers, supervisors, health and safety personnel and workers to identify and find risk factors within occupations in the sawmill industry and take appropriate action to begin to control this risk. The risk factors (force, posture, and time variables) are the known contributors to work-related Strain and Sprain injuries.

Secondly, the purpose of the Workplace Strain and Sprain Control Strategy was to determine the effectiveness of a Participatory Ergonomics Program facilitated by the WSIB's consulting Ergonomist and Consultant Trainer.

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