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Spirit of Health
NEWS
This week's big news is that our organisation
has decided to establish a WorkHealth, Fitness and Wellbeing
division.
We've finally realized that we need to do more than give
lip-service to confronting the illhealth epidemic in our
community. We intend to move heaven and earth to encourage our
staff to keep
themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability -
healthy workplace, healthy people.
In Australia, $60B of public money is poured down the
medical-pharmaceutical black hole every year, and the health of
Australians is getting worse. Hello!
Organisations like our own are going to the wall propping up archaic worker's compensation
schemes.
So, to cut a long story short, we've decided to bite the bullet.
Our
safety first and health last is not giving adequate
recognition to the seriousness of the poor health epidemic in
our work places.
Whilst a dead heat would seem to be a satisfactory compromise,
we're now putting health first.
Watch this space.
BEACONSFIELD BLOW OUT
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During the layabout following the Beaconsfield mining
disaster, miners have been meeting up at the Tamar Hotel
in Launceston every day for lunch. The favourite fare is said to
be a round of schnitzel, chips and gravy washed down
with half a dozen Cascades.
The mine is getting safer but the workers are getting
decidedly fatter.
It is understood that the ropes on the cage have had to
be replaced to in anticipation of the extra load.
A reader sent in this snap of a miner at the
intersection of Tamar and West streets on his way home.
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In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and remember, not many
people every got fitter or healthier in a surgery or a pharmacy.
Frank Blunt
Editor
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