Brisbane and Gold Coast Corporate Health and Employee Wellness

In a 2009 survey of 13,908 Australian workers:

Half of those who believed they were in excellent health were at high risk.
8013 were identified as having one or more risk factors.
280 were at an extreme level of risk and in need of urgent clinical attention, most commonly for elevated blood pressure and blood sugar.
47% were overweight.
45% [...]

On the 31st October a spectacular Saturday with clear blue skies greeted us as we set out on our Bush Walk to Mt. Barney National Park, The Lower Portals. I’m not quite sure why they call it “The Lower Portals” but there is very cool stone doorway you have to climb up through to get [...]

This article by Venturi’s Table looks at how encouraging staff to get involved in cooking can boost their performance and from where I stand, their health and wellness. Imagine your team learning in a safe and supportive environment how to prepare food in a hurry, what good for them nutritionally and how to eat well [...]

Maggie Johnson here continues the discussion on the recent Families and Work Institute report on Employee Health and Wellness.
Don’t read this sitting down. Walk, jog, take the stairs – anything to help soften the news that the health of the American worker is appalling, and declining.

As the national health care debate heats up, a timely [...]

John Bates creates workplace wellness programs and gives some definitive statistics below about what employers can expect from an employee wellness program.
A worksite wellness program is an organized initiative to assist and support staff members in establishing healthier lifestyles. This may include enhancing employee awareness on health topics, providing behavior modification initiatives, and/or establishing corporate [...]

Here Jeff Scott talks about the many benefits of having regular massage in your workplace.
Corporate massages will help to look after the health and well-being of your employees. If you are successful in improving your employee morale and orgnisational profitability through this unconventional method, then why not try it? Corporate massage therapy can be used [...]

This article by Ann Belser talks about the traps of convenience eating – how we don’t even notice it affecting our health. Little by little, slowly over time, we put on weight, decrease our exercise and get stuck in the cycle of low energy -sugar-high energy-crash because it’s just so easy. The scenarios below are [...]

We all have internal alarm systems that ring at varying degrees of loudness depending on our needs at the time. At work however, because of group or peer pressure, company norms, fear of judgment or lack of advancement, we can ignore our internal alarms that tell us when to stop. This article by Arthur Rosenfeld [...]

Here Ellen Galinsky speaks of other ways of interpreting and defining employee wellness – expanding our definitions. Wellness really is a whole person concern – work life plus life plus everything outside of work added all together create and destroy wellness. Ellen adds some practical ideas on how employers can promote wellness at work by [...]

Raizel Robin’s article continues…
As the evidence mounts in support of wellness programs, they will become more a social movement than a trend, say industry watchers. Martin Rutte is author of Chicken Soup for the Soul At Work, a 1998 book that has sold more than a million copies and made him a popular lecturer on [...]