OTB Products provide insights on debilitating injuries and their repercussions. Prematurely aged people, walking wounded on sticks, frames and body supports with bad backs and crippled hand, elbow, knee and foot joints are a result of the tendency to push the limits and extend the body further than it is designed for.
PPE, personal protection equipment, includes advanced body care products that are now available in Australia. Chase Ergonomics’ Decade Accupressure back supports, impact protection equipment incorporating Gelpact and Gelfom technology products form a part of this PPE range from OTB Products. According to OTB Products PPE/Bodycare products are like an insurance policy and selecting them should be approached the same way.
OTB Products advise that people need to look at the credibility or fallibility of the product or vendor. There is a need to weed out those who can’t provide copies of international PPE approvals or clinical studies where they apply.
People then need to compare the survivors of this process by examining them feature for feature, value for value, over the product’s projected lifespan. OTB Products can offer a range of price point products that satisfies even frugal customers.
Like any purchase, value for money is the prime factor and people need to be wary of the opportunists who charge a lot for a low-cost product. According to OTB Products, when it involves safety, health and body care, cheap is seldom good and often harmful. Wearing a badly made back support or unapproved anti-vibration gloves or sleeves can actually cause damage and magnify the problem.
Some back supports invite muscle atrophy because they support the back even when it does not need it, but do not perform when it does. This is when the human body reacts to sudden unexpected events (accidents) that apply loading (stress) to the lumbar spine.
One study has shown that, during such events, the strong back muscles can over-react by as much as 70%, frequently triggering back injury. This is something all need to guard against, through clinically validated support. A number of anti-vibration gloves recently tested in Denmark, were found to make the vibration worse, to magnify it, damaging nerves and tendons.
OTB Products provide details regarding back up claims and the cost of approved and clinically proven products, cost studies on durability, employee or personal downtime, lost productivity, retraining staff who are injured, compensation premiums payouts, insurance and duty of care to employees.
Good back supports reduce back injuries caused by bending, falling, tripping twisting and those other unexpected events that happen to us every day. When back supports are used in conjunction with OTB Products’ six safe steps to lifting, the chances of a back injury will be reduced.
People constantly using chainsaws, jackhammers, concrete cutters, whipper snippers, compactors, grinders, power tools, rattle guns and other vibrating equipment know what vibration can do to the hands and arms. Hence, protection is necessary.
Hand Arms Vibration Syndrome (HAVs) is insidious as the person will notice that his hands are tingling at the end of the day but they’re all right the next morning. This can be the first sign of a serious problem that can lead to White Finger and Gangrene.
Standards Approved and clinically proven protection is available in form of anti-vibration gloves and PPE that are clinically proven to reduce vibration. These ranges complement OTB products’ ranges of anti-vibration products, impact-reducing products, gloves, wrist supports, knee protectors and footwear insoles.
The products are the result of collaboration by two market leaders, Body Glove (which has 50 years of sportswear and wetsuit experience) and Chase’s, which is known for clinically based PPE design and patented Gelfom, Gelpact and Accupressure technologies.