14 May 2012 The Corporate Health Achievement Award (CHAA) recognizes quality and strenghts of occupational and environmental health programs. This year, global health care products manufacturer Johnson & Johnson won this most rigorous Health & Safety award, thanks to its long history of commitment to the workplace health and safety of its staff. They also [...]
24 April 2012 The perfect green economy would not generate pollution or waste and would be hyper-efficient in its use of energy, water, and materials. Does your workplace health program measure up? Using this green utopia as a benchmark would mean that currently there are few, if any, green jobs, green workplaces, or green corporate [...]
18 April 2012 Little is known today about the impact of remote, mobile and flexible work on employee health and wellbeing. Sales staff spending their time on the road, home-based ‘teleworkers’, miners, and mobile service engineers are all off-site, but how much attention is being paid to their working environment, psychological state, health and general [...]
13 April 2012 Awareness of mental illness may have increased, but Australian businesses are still failing to recognise and manage mental health risk in the workplace, according to new research. According to a poll of ASX Top 300 companies, 40 percent of businesses do not perceive mental illness as a potential risk to their company. [...]
3 April 2012 95 per cent of the financial services workforce don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables and nearly 72 per cent aren’t doing enough physical exercise, says the WorkSafe Victoria study of 400,000 WorkHealth checks. These figures are quite alarming when we know the negative effects carnivore diet and sedentary lifestyle have on workers. [...]
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