Safety 2009 Proceedings

553 Is Your Stretch & Flex Program Cutting Edge? (Sponsored by the Ergonomics Branch of the Industrial Hygiene Practice Specialty)

Instructor: Deborah Read, MOTR/L, ErgoFit Consulting, Inc., Seattle, WA

Description: Many stretch and flex programs have resulted in anecdotal positive outcomes. Is it because of the content and methodology or is it because of improved employee morale or both? Traditionally, these programs are passed down from company to company with little understanding of who created them and what expertise is behind them. Come to this session to learn what the research shows you should and should not be doing in your stretch and flex program and how you can blend research with what you may already be doing to make it even better.

Level: I E