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Members | Bradford Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Support Group

Point of Contact: Jenny Collins/Carol Duerden
   
Address: Bradford Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) Support Group, Workers’ Health Advice Team (WHAT), 2nd Floor, Auburn House, (Unison offices), Upper Piccadilly, Bradford, BD1 3NU
Telephone: 01274 393949
Fax: 01274 393949
Email: hazards@what-bohp.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.communigate.co.uk/brad/rsibradford
   
Who are you: We are a group which provides a forum for mutual support, exchange of experiences and ideas, advice on diagnosis and treatment, and advice on claiming benefits, benefit appeals or compensation to sufferers of repetitive strain injuries. The Bradford RSI support group has been running since 1988 and has a very comprehensive Information Pack for ‘sufferers’.
   
Aims & Objectives: The group aims to provide information, advice and support to sufferers of RSI and others with an interest in the disease.
   
The groups objectives are: • to raise awareness of RSI across the Bradford district;
• to provide advice to sufferers of RSI and their carers;
• to provide information to sufferers of RSI and their carers;
• to provide support to sufferers and their carers;
• to promote the prevention of RSI at work with workers and employers;
• to work with other organisations who have an interest in the prevention of RSI.
   
Activities & Timetables: Drop in to our meetings which are held bi-monthly on the third Tuesday of the month starting in January each year. Meetings are held from 7.00 - 9.00 pm in the WHAT office in Auburn House, 2nd Floor (Unison offices), Upper Piccadilly, Bradford, BD1 3NU
   
What are your key Annual Activities each year: International RSI Awareness Day
   
Events:

International RSI Awareness Day – 28/29 February

The group also campaigns for more preventive action in the workplace and our group’s contributions in the past to International RSI Awareness Day include:

• having a stand in our local city centre at which leaflets were handed out and passers-by could stop and chat about RSI and its causes;
• having an RSI information stand in the local library during the week of International RSI Awareness Day;
• group members sending out postcards to MP’s with their thoughts and feelings about RSI;
• attending RSI conferences to raise awareness of RSI;
• holding a VDU workshop with particular emphasis on the prevention of RSI;
• a ‘sufferer’ self-publishing her auto-biography about living with RSI;
• members attending an MP’s education day at Port Cullis House in London where one member spoke of their experience in living with an RSI;
• delivering free VDU work station assessments for the voluntary sector.

We send out posters marking the event to hundreds of organisations, voluntary groups, the press, etc. Every year our group members try to think of new ways in which to mark International RSI Awareness Day.

   
  Does your work make you sick?
Do you want advice on any health and safety issue?
WHAT can help – call us, The Workers’ Health Advice Team on 01274 393949