IPRS Health Pick Up SOM Occupational Health Award

IPRS Health have been named winners of the Outstanding Occupational Health Initiative at the 2020 SOM Occupational Health Awards.

We designed and implemented psychological and physical resilience workshops to a cohort of Anglian Water Group employees that resulted in a 98% improvement in absence days lost due to back and knee pain.

IPRS Health collaborated with AWG on a series of interactive and evidence-based workshops to address risk factors identified. The workshops were developed and implemented nationally by AWG engineers. Each workshop was delivered by an Occupational Health Physiotherapist.

The data comparing MSD absences in AWG engineers after the workshops spoke for itself:

• Days lost due to knee pain dropped by 10 days on average in the 6 months after the workshop was delivered.
• Days lost due to back pain dropped 22 days on average in the 6 months after the workshop was delivered.

The engineers rated the course a score of 68 on the Net Promoter Score (NPS), where a score of over 68 is classified excellent with delegates saying: “I think this workshop should be delivered out across the whole organisation” and “The workshop opens your mind, and makes you remember that sometimes you can over think things”.