Backsafe^® Blog

There is a Chinese proverb that reads “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” This sage advice can apply to many things in our lives. Who doesn’t look in their life’s rearview mirror at times, with a clearer vision of what could...

On April 29, I will be in Ohio, speaking at the Annual Warehouse Education and Resource Council (WERC) Conference. A Warehousing and Distribution client and I will be presenting a case study on the significant financial benefits of effectively reducing back and...

Coaches are always telling athletes that the first thing that goes (weakens) are their legs—and one can’t compete with weak leg muscles! One of the Backsafe® Rules to protect our backs from injury is to use our “elevator” or leg muscles rather than our backs when...

It is that time of year—again—when we look back to assess the previous 12 months and to project what will be in store for us over the next 12 months. I love January because it demands a conscious choice: do we hit the restart button or just hit the “keep it rolling”...

“School’s Out” (for summer) by Alice Cooper is an anthem song for kids signifying the freedom of their summer break from school. As we approach the end of summer and the beginning of a brand new school year, I think a celebratory bookend song might be "School...

Recently one of our trainers (Dr. Paula) visited a new customer to conduct our pre-training onsite assessment at a pallet manufacturing company in order to customize the Bionomic Training workshops for this facility.  In reviewing the assessment, our Lead Trainer...

A paraphrase of a John Lennon lyric is “aging is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”. People seem to be extremely busy living life nowadays.  We work, manage families and households, we tackle problems that life deals us, we play, and even relax from...

Our last article centered on companies using the “life changing” marketing ploy in their advertising as a new way to endear their products to new prospective buyers.   It got me wondering what is making these ad companies presume that we all need our lives...

Last week I swear I heard an ad on the radio about how a company’s oil change was life changing!  I started laughing because what I hadn’t realized until I heard that, is that “life changing” is the buzz word in marketing today.  Life changing diets, teeth whitening,...

Probably every young person has, at one time or another, heard “Well dear, that is just the ‘way of the world’”. This response is a catch-all response for things that are hard to explain; aren’t pleasant; or for things that have been a certain way for a long time for...

According to Consumer Reports over 50% of Americans are taking prescription medication in this country. Pharmaceuticals are a $450 billion industry. Medications do a lot of good for so many people, but most of us would agree that we are an over-prescribed nation. This...

See what we did there?  Pardon the title pun but recently there was yet another article about the dangers of sitting.  “Sitting Most of the Day May Lead to an Early Grave”  was the headline. This,  on the heels of “Sitting is the New Smoking” and other articles about...

Aging is an interesting process. We get wiser, more confident in who we are, more competent in our chosen line of work and hobbies, and overall settle in to our way of life. There is also another phenomenon that occurs. Most people as they age experience an onset of...