The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched it's new website aimed at reducing back pain at work as part of the 'Better Backs' campaign. The new website uses a different approach to any usual HSE campaign.
The British rock band, Bäackpain has been created by the HSE to highlight various methods of reducing back pain at work and to deliver the various statistics surrounding back pain and musculoskeletal injuries such as:
- 2 million people in Great Britain suffered from work related ill health in 2004/05 - one in five of those involved a bad back
- Around 4½ million working days were lost through bad backs in 2001/02. On average each sufferer took 17.4 days off in that 12 month period
- At least 5 million adults consult their GP annually about back pain
- NHS physiotherapy costs are estimated at £150.6 m
- One in eight unemployed people say that back pain is the reason they're not working
Bäackpain consists of Kylie Crouch (vocals), David Bent (bass), Stoop Williams (drums), and Ben Yorney (guitar).
The new website can be found by clicking the following link: Better Backs - Bäackpain
