Occupational health and fitness

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n	Charter

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n	From injury to dysfunction

n	Manifesto

n	Model

n	Objectives

n	Risk factor audit

n	Strategy

n	Swifties and fallacies

n	What we can do for you?

n	Ebook presentation: Best Practice in Occupational Health, Fitness and Wellbeing

n	The Crookback Proposal

In the area of occupational health and safety we have reached the point in time where we need to give greater prominence to the health side of the occupational health and safety equation.

This is because the growing incidence of body system dysfunctions is outstripping the injuries. Organisations, still living in the past believe they have to pay for the dysfunctions in the same way they paid for the injuries. Not so, particularly if you have a good risk management strategy in place.

Failure to make the distinction between injury and dysfunction, and failing to manage the risk of dysfunction is costing employers millions of dollars. If you're not prepared, if you don't have a strategy you can be pretty certain that sooner or later someone will pull a swiftie and take you to the cleaners.

And if you're not on the front foot you'll be leaving yourself wide open to the systematic rorting of your organisation by dysfunctional employees, usually aided and abetted by your workers' compensation insurer and their doctors.

Get on the front foot. Keep your eye on the health side of the occupational health and safety equation

So how do you develop an approach to occupational health that tackles head on the risks of absenteeism, presenteeism and workers' compensation?

n	You establish a wellness approach and develop a model that delivers measurable improvements in your occupational health and fitness targets.

And why do you do it?
n	Because you have a burning desire to have fit, healthy and happy staff, who are in the right job for now and who are developing as human beings. The last thing you want is the 21st Century equivalent of a satanic mill, full of discontented, unhappy and unhealthy drones.

n	Because you want the productivity gains that come with people who have energy and vitality to burn

n	Because you want to reduce the costs of absenteeism, presenteeism and workers' compensation.

THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND FITNESS MODEL

Why occupational health and fitness? Because it's a big ask in our culture expecting to stay healthy without keeping yourself fit. It's a big ask in our culture expecting to stay healthy when you're in the wrong job and you can't manage the stress of your internal and external environments.

People who are healthy and developing as human beings don't need to be motivated, they motivate themselves.

Werner Erhard