Manufacturing
Named case study · Outcome & control validation
A full year with zero injuries requiring time away from work — Visy Glass, July 2023.
A comprehensive work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD) program targeting hazard elimination, informed by Etiscope assessments.
1 year
zero injuries requiring time away from work, marked July 2023
Situation
Visy Glass runs continuous, repetitive manual work in a heavy-manufacturing environment — the kind of operation where musculoskeletal injuries accumulate quietly over time and surface as lost-time claims.
Complication
Reducing those injuries meant knowing which tasks were actually driving the risk, and then proving that the controls put in place were working — not just assuming they were.
Response
- Etiscope assessments identified where the consequential risk sat, task by task and body region by body region.
- Visy Glass implemented a comprehensive WMSD program targeting hazard elimination — working at the top of the hierarchy of controls — informed by those assessments.
Outcome
After implementing a comprehensive WMSD program targeting hazard elimination — informed by Etiscope assessments — Visy Glass achieved a full year with zero injuries requiring time away from work, marked in July 2023.
How this generalises
The most effective controls sit at the top of the hierarchy. Visy Glass's pattern — assess, then target hazard elimination with the evidence in hand — is what turns a safety program from activity into outcome.
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