20/10/2025
🌐📈 WORLD STATISTICS DAY 📈 🌐
Do you know the impact of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in Australia?
Work-related MSDs are the #1 work, health and safety issue ( Work Australia)
$55.1B is the annual cost of MSDs to the Australian economy, including direct health costs, lost productivity and reduced quality of life ( Industries)
7.3 million (29%) Australians suffer chronic MSDs (ABS National Health Survey June 24)
57% (the majority) of Australian workers’ compensation claims are for WMSDs and cost around $65,000 per serious claim
Top 4 WMSDs in Australia: Low back pain, neck pain, mid-back pain and cervicogenic headaches
Today is the start of National WorkSpace Week, an initiative by the Chiropractors Association which aims to create safe and healthy workspaces and to lessen the long-term impact on workers, employers, and the economy by improving the spinal health and wellbeing of all workers vulnerable to WMSDs.
Adjust your thinking this WorkSpace Week (20-26 Oct) - visit www.workspaceweek.org.au to learn more or to register your organisation so your team can Work Well Every Day because prevention is the protection!
