Elena Velez

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One of the largest unplannable costs to hit employers today is work days lost due to injuries in the workplace. In recent years these have risen by almost 30% and in 2021 accounted for 70 million days. Employers uninsured costs were almost 14 billion dollars, and this does not include the hidden costs of lost productivity, increased absenteeism, disrupted shift schedules and retraining. Community Restorative Training, CRT, a company I founded some years ago has developed and implemented a training program specifically designed for manual workers which is proven to reduce workplace accidents by up to 64%. This is an holistic program which is administered in the workplace during normal working hours. It is planned as weekly 30 minute sessions, over a period of 10 consecutive weeks. Each session is divided into three 10-minute segments which individually focus the worker on Education, Restorative Movement and Mindfulness and Meditation. The results are startling, the workplace becomes safer, manual workers become happier and more efficient. Accidents reduce and operations improve and become more reliable, resulting in an improving bottom line. Add the 'soft' benefits of boosting emplo

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