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MILLER HEALTH Pty Ltd is an integrated corporate health management company providing corporate organisations with a range of interactive health management programs, assessments and audits.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND FITNESS One of the great laws of occupational health and fitness is audit the risk.
Another of those laws is do something about it.
THE CONTEXT OF CORPORATE HEALTH ASSESSMENTS The assessments we conduct provide employees with a good idea of how fit and healthy they are. What's unique about our assessments is that we make an assessment of a a number of health risk indicators.
If employees know what sort of shape they are in they can make choices about improving their health and lowering the risk of a host of body system dysfunctions. Low levels of physical activity, poor diet and an inability to manage the stresses of life and work are contributing to an epidemic of avoidable body system, dysfunctions.
40 odd years ago, John F Kennedy said that 'the softening process of our civilization continues its persistent erosion'. This would have to be the understatement of the 20th century.
What's interesting about it is that many people seem ignorant of the fact that the health of key body systems is gradually being compromised by their lifestyle. They don't attribute their headaches, lack of energy, high blood pressure or crook back to what they're doing too little of or what they're doing too much of.
They don't realize that the symptoms of dysfunction usually are not apparent until dysfunction has well and truly set in. They don't recognise the small signs, preferring to 'leave it to the gods' that nothing catastrophic will happen to them.
Our approach to individual and collective health is based on this faint hope that nothing is going to break down - and if it does, modern medicine will come to the rescue and an employer or the government will foot the bill. What sort of a fraud is that?
GOOD NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES There is an absolute epidemic of body system dysfunction. If you don't believe us, click here and take a look at some of the results of the Mind and Body profile.
The good news is that there is an absolute certainty that in a majority of cases people can restore poor function back to good function if they're diligent and persistent.
All it takes is a bit of time and effort; it doesn't take much money. The benefits? In the first instance they'll feel better? Scores on the Mind and Body profile will go back closer to zero. The crook back, stiff neck and 'cold' shoulder will get better.
GOOD NEWS FOR EMPLOYERS When it comes to occupational health and fitness, a lot of the expense incurred by corporate organisations can be attributed to the application of the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc - after this therefore because of this. You can read more about this hoax by clicking here.
In a nutshell, what it means in an occupational health and fitness context is that the cause of a body system dysfunction is frequently attributed to an employer, and not the employee themselves.
The most frequently exposed example relates to musculo-skeletal dysfunction where the chair and the desk supplied by the employer, not an employee's lack of strength and flexibility are blamed for a crook back.
Employers set themselves up to fall for this fallacy when they don't audit the risk and if, having audited the risk they don't do anything about it. The good news is that if employers know the individual and collective risks of absenteeism, presenteeism and workers compensation they can put in train measures to lower the risk.
OUR ASSESSMENTS ■ health and fitness checkup - 30 minutes ■ personal health assessment - 60 minutes ■ mind and body profile - 15 minutes ■ work station assessment - 20 minutes ■ musculo-skeletal risk factor assessment - 20 minutes ■ elite force fitness assessment - 30 minutes ■ platinum challenge - 20 minutes
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