The term industrial athlete/ athletics has been around for a long time since industrial revolution. Industrial athletics isn’t new, but it helps employers in many ways, to train employees to avoid injuries, hiring candidates who are physically able to do a particular job and improving the design of tasks that employees can perform safely.
The concept of an industrial athlete conjures images of strength and agility. Think of muscled workers shovelling coal into a fiery furnace, or a driver dashing from a car to make a timely delivery or of ‘Rosie the Riveter’ displaying forearm and determined look. Industrial athletics programs are used both to prevent injuries and aid in recovery. They may involve applying the same sort of techniques that keep athletes at peak performance.
How is works;
Like professional athlete conditions every day, they strengthen, they stretch, and they hydrate well same is applied to the employee. Once that parallel is made, an employer can create a program targeting to their employee’s particular job. The prevention program is very specific to a job’s demand, and the employer will go out to the job site and assess what the job exactly required.
A Formal job description would be created that has the physical functional demands identified and then they would create a program to match those needs.
Eg; involve some type of warm up, some type of stretching, possibly some type of strengthening
Stretching during work break
