Corporate Health And Workplace Wellness Programs

For example, the health and safety of its workforce has always been important to Rio Tinto. Wellness is seen as an extension of health and safety because the company recognises that a healthy workforce is a safer workforce. As such, Rio Tinto’s corporate wellness program complements its occupational health and safety measures. The program focuses on screening, assessing and managing a range of health risks and illnesses facing many of its employees, such as sedentary lifestyles, poor diet, stress,smoking, obesity and mental health.

 Structured physical activity is highly effective in preventing and/or treating most of the major diseases of modern society including diabetes, heart disease, depression and cancer. Yet despite this evidence, almost 70% of Australian adults are not active enough to achieve the preventative health benefits. Sixty-five percent of the Australian population aged over 15 years are in the workforce, with 68.5% of the workforce classified as sedentary or engaging in low level activity.

Related to this, the cost of absenteeism in Australia is estimated at $7 billion each year. Recent research has shown that workplace health programs resulted in, on average, a 25.3% decrease in sick leave absenteeism, 40.7% decrease in workers compensation costs, and $5.81 of savings for every $1 invested in employee wellbeing.1 Further research has shown that productivity loss due to physical inactivity equates to 1.8 working days per worker per year.

Workplace Group Exercise Classes Can Help

• Reduce low back pain and fewer injuries
• Improve lower limb and spinal flexibility
• Increase strength and endurance
• Increase postural awareness – able to achieve a neutral spine and sit comfortably longer
• Improve lower back strength, pelvic and core stability
• Improve running speed and efficiency
• Improve productivity at work
• Reduce absenteeism, heightened morale, wellness and attitude within the workplace

At Corporate Work Health Australia we are here to help you achieve realistic and measurable changes in and out of the workplace.

Stretching & Mobilisation Class

These group classes are an introduction to reinventing yourself and reversing the damaging effects that sitting has had on your health. Sports science research has shown us that taking the time to stretch and strengthen the vulnerable areas of your body (those that are affected by sitting) can not only eliminate the risk of injury, but it can and will IMPROVE performance too.

Core Stability Class

Good posture is more than just sitting up straight when planted all day in front of the computer. Why not give your employees an opportunity to understand how their body posture affects their overall health and learn how to make changes to improve their day? This workshop was created to educate your staff on how to monitor their own posture during working hours. We will provide them with enough tools to correct their posture and use their core properly to stabilise the body and prevent injuries from occurring.

Stretch & Strengthen Class

What does this include? 

• Low impact yoga based exercises designed specifically for your workplace to help alleviate tension from your neck, back and shoulders due to long hours of sitting at the desk
• Postures to strengthen your core and all body muscles so you can go back to sitting more comfortably
• Movements to increase flexibility in your whole body, particularly areas related to the lower back and shoulders
• Breathing and relaxation techniques to help deal with stress
• Learning how to deeply relax and rejuvenate the body and mind, even help with a better night’s sleep
• Techniques to help increase your focus, concentration and therefore your productivity
• Improving your muscle strength and stretch balance so your body functions better

Remember, just because you’re not carrying an injury now doesn’t mean that one isn’t just around the corner!

Corporate Workplace Pilates

What can pilates do for you?

• Tone your body all over making you feel good
• Strengthen the weaker muscles of the body by working on all muscle groups
• Increase your  flexibility
• Help prevent injury
• Strengthen your back and core muscles so you can sit better and not be so uncomfortable
• Improve your muscle balance
• Is excellent for strengthening pelvic floor muscles after birth and as we get older to prevent incontinence
• Works to correct posture and body alignment
• Helps create body/mind awareness
• Strengthen your breathing
• Can be used to improve sporting performance at all levels

Corporate Workplace Yoga

What can yoga do for you?

• help prevent and deal with stress and anxiety
• greatly increase flexibility
• Increase strength
• Get all internal bodily systems moving
• Help shift blockages in the body
• Increase concentration and focus
• Help Prevent injury
• Create greater body and mind awareness
• Create and correct posture
• Help self confidence
• Promote health and wellbeing
• Teach you how to deeply relax
• Teach you  how to breath properly

What are the benefits of a regular class?

• You can help alleviate the aches and pains that come from long hours of sitting
• Go back to your desk feeling rejuvenated
• Help gain a feeling of calmness and peace to deal with those challenging situations and deal better with stress and anxiety
• Increase your concentration so you can work more effectively
• Help prevent injury by developing flexibility and strength in your muscles
• Developing a greater sense of correct posture for your body

Corporate Massage 

““Nobody calls in sick on massage day!””

Thank your staff or reward them for their hard work – why not treat them to a professional seated massage and even better, a private massage! Corporate Massage is typically a 15 minute treatment given to employees at the workplace. Most commonly treatments are focused on the head, neck, shoulders and upper back but our therapists can tailor treatments to your needs. 

Corporate Massage therapy can be performed at the convenience of the workplace either at the worker’s desk or in a suitable room or worksite. Employees remain fully clothed and typically no oils or lotions are used. Private treatments can be organised for longer treatments.

Happy staff = hard working staff. In no time you will see the results for yourself, both in the attitude of everyone in the office and in the productivity levels of your staff and company. Massage times can be 15, 20 or 30 minutes depending on how many staff you have.

Stretch Workshops

In many work environments it is almost impossible to eliminate all hazards and risks and therefore we have developed a stretch or strengthening program to better equip your workers with both the knowledge and practical skills to be able to implement simple stretching and strengthening techniques to help workers deal with tension associated with static, awkward or repetitive work tasks that can be performed for long durations.    

Basic Service

1. Site view – observation of work tasks and review of any existing injury data/risk assessments,
2. Stretching routine handout development & presentation development,
3. Practical stretching session for the workers.
4. +/- practical review session (4-8 weeks later)

Note:  We can also provide a train the trainer (training site champions to lead stretching sessions within work times).

Premium Service

1. Site viewing and worker consultation – this involves consulting with workers to view their work tasks and understand the common issues associated with their work tasks.
2. Worksite hazard analysis of work tasks performed relating to manual handling and/or office based work tasks.
3. Manual handling risk assessments of top high risk/hazardous tasks – reporting on hazard/risk and control measure options.
4. Manual handling training for workers.
5. Injury Prevention/Management Strategies – Stretch +/- Strengthen course program development and training sessions for workers.
6. Follow up training provided as required and review of program implementation.