Our programs are led by medical professionals—primarily industrial athletic trainers—who are embedded on-site to create opportunities for proactive engagement with employees. One question we often hear is, “Why not directly contract an individual AT to support our employees?”
Here’s more insight into why we ultimately see clients choose to have the support of a professional industrial athletic training organization to help reduce their employee injuries. We’ve found that the two most common reasons why clients end up contracting with us are overhead risk reduction and subject matter expertise.
Subject matter expertise
When a company contracts with us, not only do they benefit from the support of a single medical professional, but an entire team of experienced licensed medical professionals behind them and the expert guidance of an industrial athletic training service provider with nearly two decades of success in injury prevention. Our comprehensive interviewing standards and in-depth internal training allow us to recruit highly qualified ATs who are equipped with both the precise skillset and excellence in interpersonal communication to service your facilities. This management structure pays dividends when it comes to training our clients’ assigned healthcare professional, along with the continuous support they receive.
Training
- Our onboarding certification process starts with an intensive 2-week training program that includes in-depth education on the solutions our industrial athletic trainer will be delivering, along with three days of on-site training that provides a practical understanding of how these solutions are delivered to a client. This training also provides deeper clarity on the line that is drawn between first aid and medical treatment, in order to avoid unnecessarily triggering OSHA recordables by providing care that’s considered beyond first aid when assisting with injury triage.
- The 2-week training period is followed by an additional 90-day support period where our internal training staff helps the professional adapt our solutions to your business. It is only after this 90-day period is completed that our healthcare professional is certified as an Industrial Medicine Specialist.
Continuous Support
- Each of our professionals are assigned to an industry-specific team led by a supervisor with experience in said industry. These teams meet weekly to discuss best practices that we’ve deployed in other companies within their industry to ensure each of our ATs are supported with up-to-date, evidence-based practices, such as integrating microlearning in employee education.
- Each of our industrial athletic training supervisors will also make on-site visits to provide support, starting with the onboarding process and continuing on an ongoing basis. These visits are invaluable in helping further drive the adaptation of our solutions to clients’ operations.
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Get more infoOverhead Risk Reduction
Safety and health professionals are all too familiar with the challenges of recruiting, onboarding, training and managing employees—challenges that are often compounded in the process of employing a medical professional. Another difficulty: there’s no guarantee that these professionals are equipped to adapt their skillset to the industrial setting. Does your company have the appropriate resources and medical oversight to train them? A significant concern of prospective clients on not internalizing the Program Manager position has been this lack of context or understanding of how to adapt their way of practicing medicine to the industrial setting.
That’s where we come in: through BIOKINETIX programs, our industrial athletic trainers are already trained to support employees in this setting by utilizing key ergonomic, sports medicine, and Total Worker Health principles. We’re able to embed them into your organization and facilitate collaboration with your existing safety and health teams to proactively address early warning signs of injuries and drive employee behavioral change.
More recently, market conditions have given pause to prospective clients to employ a medical professional for proactive injury prevention and triage. Inflation is affecting the global economy, and with that, employee compensation has ballooned. These increases in compensation and benefits can make planning difficult for organizations, and may present a certain risk when it comes to onboarding W-2 employees. This tight labor pool has also caused the cost of recruiting new employees to skyrocket. Instead, as an industrial athletic training partner, we take on this risk by managing the entire hiring process and are therefore able to shield our clients from these inflationary costs.
In the same way we look at the long-term costs of workplace injuries from a cumulative, bigger-picture perspective, we must also consider both the direct and indirect costs of employing on-site medical professionals. It’s a given that, as with any new hire, you’re taking on compensation, payroll taxes, benefits, retirement, time-off, and so forth; by directly hiring a medical professional, companies would also need to take on their continuing education costs, and oftentimes tuition reimbursement and travel costs to professional conferences. In the event of turnover, all these costs reset and are incurred all over again with an employee who is not as experienced.
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