Back Care Awareness Week 2023 – Business toolkit

How can back health affect your business?

Happy, healthy employees are the backbone of any business.

Most of us will develop back pain at some point in our lives. So, now’s the time to understand how you can give your employees the support they need to take care of their backs and overall wellbeing.

Research shows that in 2021/22 in Britain over 7 million working days were lost due to work-related muscle and bone conditions. And nearly half of these cases were due to back problems¹.

As well as affecting mobility, poor back health can impact general wellbeing, limiting your employees’ productivity and increasing the likelihood of them needing time off work.

That’s why it’s important for your business to prepare for Back Care Awareness Week, 3 to 7 October 2023.

Download our back care client email (PDF, 0.1MB)

Have your teams back by taking a look at the assets below:

For your business

• Brochure: Muscle, Bone, Joint issues (PDF, 0.4MB) >
• Employer internal communication (DOC, 0.1MB) >

Guidance and support for line-managers

• Manager’s guide: Supporting your team's MSK health (PDF, 0.7MB) >
• Core Module: MSK Academy (PDF, 0.1MB) >

Resources to share with your team

• Video: Inside Health - Joint health and movement >
• Video: Inside Health - Muscles, Bones and Joints >
• Video: Four easy stretches to relieve back tension >
• Health Information: Lower back pain >
• Health Information: Upper back pain >
• Health Information: How to look after your back >
• Health Information: Muscles and bones hub >
• Health Information: The link between back pain and emotions >
• Health Information: Desk stretches to ease aches and pains >

You can also find a wealth of information, tools and support on Bupa’s website, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Versus Arthritis and the Backcare.org websites.

¹HSE, Health and Safety at work 2021/2022