Articles tagged under ‘Health and productivity’

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• Bus Wellness Guides 3: Ideas and Resources

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• Bus Wellness Guide 2: A guide for managers

  Managers and supervisors can have an enormous impact on employee health, wellness and safety. They monitor how well policies promote performance and productivity.

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• Bus Wellness Guide 1: advice for operators and leaders

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• Webinar recording: Cultivating happiness at work to improve RTW

  The Happiness at Work Program, a 30-day program devised to improve personal happiness and positively impact workplace productivity.

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• What employers are doing to develop a flexible workplace in 2016

  Diversity and Work-Life Specialist, SeventeenHundred

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• Compensation: does it do more harm than good?

  Professor Ian Cameron from the University of Sydney spoke at the 2016 ISCRR Forum on ways that the compensation claims procedures can be changed as well as other possible interventions.

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• Chronic Pain in the Workplace: a psychological approach

  Dr Matt Graham, a registered psychologist and team psychologist at OrionHealth, explores the skill sets needed to assist employees to return to work.

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• Mental Stress in Australia: Compensation Statistics part 1

  Work-related mental stress places a burden on the health and welfare of employees, as well as having an impact on workplace productivity and the Australian economy.

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• Health and Wellness in the Workplace: how to promote it

  Every business wants to increase productivity and make money. Many businesses are, however, unaware of the benefits to their 'bottom line' finances, of investing in staff well-being.

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• Case Study: Injured, But not at Work. What to do?

  Joe, a 45-year-old storeman, fractured his left thumb in an injury mowing his lawn at home. A thumb fracture can take months to heal.

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• How to get the best out of your physiotherapist

  Physiotherapy treatment is common for a range of standard conditions, particularly including musculoskeletal injuries.

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• On Being a Company Doctor

  Dr James Crompton discusses the challenges and rewards of working as a company doctor.

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• Role Summary: Rehabilitation Providers

  Rehabilitation providers are multidisciplinary organisations which employ professionals from a range of health disciplines.

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• Role Summary: Exercise Physiologist

  Exercise Physiologists are Allied Health professionals who focus on therapeutic physical exercise. They use exercise as medicine.

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• Applying Risk Theory to Occupational Health

  A simple adaptation of risk theory to occupational health can deliver significant improvements in productivity and a reduction in workplace accidents.

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• The Balancing Act

  We speak to rehab provider Donna Valiant about managing everybody's needs, expectations and obligations during the RTW process.

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• Driving change

  How one car manufacturer steered their ageing workforce towards higher productivity

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• Missing the signs

  Organisations who offer "good work" have fewer stress and musculoskeletal claims. Managerial competence helps determine whether work is "good". Are Australian organisations missing the signs?

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• Philosopher King

  An Italian entrepreneur has turned the Umbrian village of Solomeo into both a fashion factory, and an extraordinary experiment in workplace health and wellbeing.

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• Why bother with workplace wellness?

  1. Return on investment; 2. Health and productivity for ageing workers...

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• Can we cooperate for workplace health and wellbeing?

  And can the UK show us how it's done?

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• Workplace stress: we can work it out

  Causes of stress, and why it will never disappear if we don't encourage the right behaviours.

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• The economic costs of a heart attack

  Heart attacks result in $A3.8 billion in lost productivity

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• Extinguish smoking at work

  Make your workplace a totally smoke-free zone

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• Fuel for your fire: Burnout prevention eTool

  Following on from our 3-part series on job burnout, 'Maintain the flame', we provide a fully editable burnout prevention eTool.

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• Maintain the flame: Part 3 - Employers and job burnout

  What can employers do to help prevent and respond to burnout?

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• Maintain the flame: Part 2 - Employees and job burnout

  We look at how RTW Coordinators can help prevent, manage, and assist recovery from burnout

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• Maintain the flame: Job burnout part 1

  In part 1 of a 3-part series, we look at the symptoms, causes and effects of job burnout

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• Good, better, best

  What do good health, better financial returns and the "Best Places to Work" have in common?

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• Workplace wellbeing - front and Centre(link)

  We speak to Jody Bell about Centrelink's award-winning health and wellbeing initiative.

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• Sedentary exercise

  Think that 30-40 minutes of daily exercise gets an office-based workforce off the hook? Think again. Activity throughout the day is a must for good health.

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• Calculating absenteeism costs

  Calculating the costs of absenteeism will help you make the case for better injury management systems and investment in health and wellbeing.

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• Estimating turnover costs

  Making the business case for best practice injury management? There are simple methods to assist you in calculating the rate and cost of staff turnover in your organisation.

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• Bring body, breath AND mind to work

  Most of us do not think about consciously connecting our mind with our body, breath and soul; but research shows benefits for RTW.

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• Walk this way

  Finding it hard to move your company on workplace wellbeing? Run these case studies by them and see if they don't step to a new tune.

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• Make no bones about it

  The Australian Government has made arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions national health priorities in the battle against chronic disease in Australia.

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• Mind power

  Psychologist Colin Thompson introduces us to Mindfulness Therapy, which has been shown to assist people with problems including anxiety, chronic pain and addiction.

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• Take this health message to heart

  Avoid heart disease with this fact sheet and our top tips for a healthy workplace.

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• Health and productivity in smaller workplaces

  You can't afford hit and miss. What works, what doesn't and how can you market tried and true solutions to your employees?

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• Top ten reasons to have a health and wellbeing program

  Need some ammunition to make the case for investment in health and wellbeing? Look no further than our latest top ten...

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• Won't stand for another work risk?

  Fair enough - but you might not want to take this RTW news sitting down.

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• The proven pay-off of workplace health programs

  The results of a Monash University study assessing the results of participation in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) are in: employee wellbeing improves when employers invest.

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• Dos and Don'ts for workplace health during a downturn or recession

  A short guide to surviving a downturn in business for busy RTW and OHS professionals.

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• On the clock and over the hill? Ageing workers in physical industries

  We can't turn back the clock, but we can offer advice on how to minimise the impact of age on "work ability" in physically intensive industries.

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• What is the value of research?

  A look at why money spent on researching health is money spent well.

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• Habitat at Work (New Zealand)

  Web based self assessment & exercise tool

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• Promoting active workplaces for better work health

  For employers looking to increase productivity and reduce sick days, a workplace wellness program could be the answer.

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• On-site injury management

  A chapter summary from the book 'Moving in on occupational injury' exploring the benefits of on-site medical presence.

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• Building a corporate culture of health - Dr Catherine Hamilton

  From the Institute for Health and Productivity Management.

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• Sleepy when you shouldn't be - three takes on sleepiness in the workplace

  This article explores some of the risks involved with sleepiness in the workplace.

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• In body but not mind - presenteeism in the workplace

  Sometimes employees need return to work assistance even while they're still physically in the workplace.

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• Opinion: Management impact too large to ignore

  The recent political leadership tussle reminds us that how people are managed affects their wellbeing and has an enormous impact on productivity.

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• Viva la WorkHealth!

  What do results from WorkSafe's WorkHealth revolution tell us about worker health--and the effectiveness of the one size fits all approach to workplace intervention?

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• Aussie consensus sought on health and work

  Can Professor Dame Carol Black persuade unions, business and medical professionals to agree on the health benefits of good work?

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• Which way to workplace health?

  Across Australia, government has allocated funding for the Healthy Worker Initiative, which has a focus on preventative health. Is this a step in the right direction?

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• The age debate

  Abbott and Gillard are right: population size does matter. But are they forgetting about the challenges to participation and productivity posed by Australia's ageing workforce?

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• The Black report transforms health, work in UK

  The implementation of "Working for a healthier tomorrow" is revolutionising health and work in the UK. What are the key initiatives?

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• Health and work: Boon or bust?

  The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine wants you to reconsider the health / work relationship.

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• Economic Decline and Workplace Health Initiatives

  Health and the workplace - an international issue

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• Return to Work Matters Strategic Summer Reading Package

  Three volumes of RTWMatters Greatest Hits to get you pointed in the right direction

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• Locating the presence of presenteeism

  Want to deal with presenteeism properly? Know what you're dealing with.

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• Health intervention gets outta town!

  At 10 000 steps a day, healthy creativity goes a LONG way...

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• Waste not, want not

  According to a new study to emerge from the UK, employers are squandering their workers' talents.

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• The scientific method: Successful health and wellbeing strategies at the CSIRO.

  A tailored, best practice Health and Well Being program.

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• Work-related musculoskeletal disorders

  Of all Australian work-related injuries, a large percentage can be categorised as musculoskeletal disorders.

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• Work life balance - much more than a feel good balance - Dr Lindsay McMillan

  The Boston College Centre for Work and Family has revealed that 70% of managers felt that productivity had been improved in those workplaces which had a good life balance.

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• Health and productivity program introduction , Sean Sullivan, CEO, IHPM

  From the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM)

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• Research short: Flexible hours improves wellbeing

  A University of Wollongong survey shows employees with access to flexible working hours are in better shape than those working to a rigid roster.

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• Research short: Bad for the body, bad for the workplace

  A major study from the Netherlands shows productivity can be improved by helping workers improve their lifestyles.

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• Research short: A happy work is a healthy work

  Positive workplace environments are necessary for workplace health programs to be successful.

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• Research short: health risks and disability

  Individuals with disabilities are more likely to engage in risky health behaviours like smoking and drinking alcohol.

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• Off the clock and on the ball

  This follow-up study examined the relationship between the after-hours physical activity of workers and their absences from work due to sick leave.

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• Health and wellbeing: Take it online and show me the money!

  Do online physical activity programs work? And are cash incentives good for motivation?

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• Do obese workers cost more?

  Investigating obesity-related costs for employers.

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• Screening for distress

  Studies suggest that it is possible to identify workers at risk of developing psychological distress and intervene before productivity suffers

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• Kapow! Beating obesity and high blood pressure through workplace intervention

  Clear goals and helpful tools ensure that workplace interventions pack a real punch

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• Workplace health and wellbeing : You've got to be in it to win it!

  Comprehensive equals effective when it comes to workplace health and wellbeing programs...

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• Depression: Optimising care for the employee and the workplace

  Depression exacerbates and prolongs pain. What does this mean for the workplace?

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• Lets get physical, physical!

  What makes some people more likely to participate in physical activity than others?

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• Costs vs benefits of obesity interventions

  Workplace health program shows reductions in total health costs and improvements in productivity

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• Healthy work environment = Healthy workers

  Workers care about support and respect in the workplace and notice whether health and safety are management priorities.

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• 6 elements of successful workplace health programs

  Want healthy workers? A well designed workplace health program can help!

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• Healthy at work

  Productivity declines more when unwell people are at work rather than absent.

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• Leadership in the workplace

  Does good leadership promote good health?

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• Age + overtime = Lower productivity??? - the evidence

  Research shows that older workers CAN work overtime and remain productive

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• Balance at work, balance at home

  Workplace flexibility is associated with better employee health

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• Physical activity a must for sedentary workers

  Contrary to expectations, sedentary workers are more likely than heavy workers to lead inactive lives

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• This round is on the boss...

  Alcohol consumption and work absenteeism: Educating workers and preventing absence

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• Who's the boss? Health and control in the workplace

  If a sense of workplace control is linked to good health, how can it be fostered?

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• Job dissatisfaction in immigrant workers

  What can employers do to tackle the problem of job dissatisfaction?

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• Challenges and opportunities for preventing depression

  This article explores some of the ways to manage and prevent major depression in the workplace.

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• Recognising depression in the workplace

  We all know depression is a problem, but do we recognise depression when we see it?

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• The business of depression

  There is a good business case for educating your workforce about depression