Occupational health
and fitness newsletter
February 2011
THE HIGH LEVEL WELLNESS CULTURE
Why bother running a corporate health, fitness and wellbeing program?
Simple answer; because it works. It's become the biggest and most important ingredient of a successful OH&S program.
BUT, it only works if
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you've developed a high level wellness culture in your organisation - top bottom and sides. |
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as a condition of employment, all your staff are involved, preferably in their work groups. If the program is voluntary a whole lot of people are unlikely to attend: - the workaholics and those at greatest risk of increasing your absenteeism, presenteeism and workers compensation costs. It defeats the whole point of the object. |
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one of the key performance indicators of management effectiveness is the health, fitness and wellbeing of each workgroup - along with the responsibility of reducing the costs of absenteeism, presenteeism, workers compensation and employee retention. |
THE SNAP SHOT
Here's a snap-shot of some of the results gathered from close to 1000 people in our corporate wellbeing programs over the last few years.
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Symptom/dysfunction/concern |
Percentage of people experiencing discomfort | ||
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Musculo-skeletal dysfunction |
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Low level of aerobic fitness |
48 |
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Lack of energy |
45 |
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Poor sleep |
43 |
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Overweight |
42 |
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Anxious |
31 |
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Wrong job |
30 |
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Under appreciated at work |
29 |
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Snoring |
28 |
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Insecure |
27 |
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Headaches |
24 |
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Crook gut |
23 |
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Under appreciated at home |
20 |
It's not a pretty picture and you don't have to be a genius to work our what it's doing to productivity and morale. It could well be the case that your workforce looks much the same.
So what can you do?
First up
develop a health, fitness and wellbeing policy.
You can take a look at my suggestion
on this link.
It could save you a lot of time, effort and money starting from scratch.
Second
THE SEVEN HABITS OF
FIT AND HEALTHY PEOPLE
This is the seminar that will get your staff focused on their health,
fitness and wellbeing. It will fire them up to keep themselves fit and
healthy to the best of their ability.
It will generate the best start to the year that you've ever had.
Click here to read
all about the Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People Seminar.
The bonus
You'll receive an audit report of the health, fitness and wellbeing or your staff.
You can view some of our reports on this link.
When's the best time to
get started?
NOW!
At the beginning of a new work year the Seven Habits seminar will be a wonderful opportunity to bring your workgroups together and boost morale.
You can contact me on
(02) 6288 7703,
(0424) 391 749
or use the contact form to send me an email.
In the mean time stay tuned, highly tuned and enrol your
staff in Australia's best, one day, health, fitness and wellbeing
seminar.
Regards
John Miller
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