National Safe
Work Month
This October, Know Safety, Work Safely
At Bodycare, helping to create safe workplaces is our passion so we’ve pulled together some resources and ideas to help you inspire conversation and engage your team to know safety and work safely this National Safe Work Month.
For many organisations, the first step to engaging your team this National Safe Work month and beyond is simply about raising awareness and encouraging genuine safety discussions. To help inspire conversation at your workplace we have created a series of posters which are FREE for you to download. Print them out and display them around your workplace this October!
Manual Handling & Conditioning Bundles
To coincide with this year’s National Safe Work Month theme, ’Know Safety, Work Safely’ we’ve decided to take it back to basics and focus on workplace health and safety from the ground up. While workplace health and safety often starts from the top down, an equally important part of creating a healthy safety culture is ensuring employees are across safety processes and practices, trained in safety, physically fit for their roles and comfortable enough to discuss any safety concerns they may have. If you are looking for inspiration on ways to engage your team and bring safety to the forefront of their awareness this National Safe Work Month, we’ve pulled together a series of bundles that will help get the conversations started.
What’s Included:
- Choice of 3x sessions in each bundle (as listed below)
- Bundles delivered in 1x two hour visit
- 1x branded warm up poster
- 1x branded stretching poster
- Up to 15 – 20 participants per bundle
- Cost $750 per bundle
Bundle 1:
1x Manual Handling Training session
Provide your team with strategies that they can implement immediately to reduce their injury risk. This innovative training is conducted by an experienced Bodycare Occupational Health Professional using an engaging and facilitative approach, employing scenarios and examples specific to the workplace.
1x Spikey Ball Program
Bodycare’s ‘Roll Me Out’ Spikey Ball Program is an interactive and engaging program, designed to educate and empower employees by providing them with tools and techniques to relieve muscle tension and muscle imbalances. Each employee will receive a Spikey Ball, exercise program and education on how to correctly perform the exercises.
1x Exercise Session
Exercise has many benefits, not only for our physical health, but also for our mental health and wellbeing. Bodycare’s exercise session will provide your team with easy to digest exercises that are designed to get your team moving, their heart rate pumping and muscles working through a whole body workout!
Bundle 2:
1x Manual Handling Training Session
Provide your team with strategies that they can implement immediately to reduce their injury risk. This innovative training is conducted by an experienced Bodycare Occupational Health Professional using an engaging and facilitative approach, employing scenarios and examples specific to the workplace.
1x TheraBand Program
Bodycare’s ‘Ship Shape Shoulders’ Theraband Program is designed to educate employees and provide them with tools and techniques to actively improve the strength of their shoulders. Each employee will receive a Theraband, exercise program and education on how to correctly perform the exercises.
1x Exercise Session
Exercise has many benefits, not only for our physical health, but also for our mental health and wellbeing. Bodycare’s exercise session will provide your team with easy to digest exercises that are designed to get your team moving, their heart rate pumping and muscles working through a whole body workout!
Bundle 3:
1x Warm-Up Program
Bodycare’s Warm-Up Program consists of theoretical and practical components and includes an introduction to musculoskeletal injuries and why they occur; distinguishing between dynamic and static stretches and how these differ in relation to musculoskeletal injury risk; the benefits of a dynamic warm-up; practical demonstration of the tailored dynamic warm-up program; a discussion about other injury prevention strategies.
1x Spikey Ball Program
Bodycare’s ‘Roll Me Out’ Spikey Ball Program is an interactive and engaging program, designed to educate and empower employees by providing them with tools and techniques to relieve muscle tension and muscle imbalances. Each employee will receive a Spikey Ball, exercise program and education on how to correctly perform the exercises.
1x TheraBand Program
Bodycare’s ‘Ship Shape Shoulders’ Theraband Program is designed to educate employees and provide them with tools and techniques to actively improve the strength of their shoulders. Each employee will receive a Theraband, exercise program and education on how to correctly perform the exercises.
National Safe Work Month Weekly Themes
If you are looking for more ways to engage your team this National Safe Work Month, why not consider tailoring your initiatives around the weekly themes. Throughout the month each week will focus on health and safety from a different lens:
Week 1 – Injuries at work
Everyone has the right to be safe at work. This week focuses on common health and safety risks and how to control these risks to keep workers safe – whether it is from slips, trips and falls, lifting, pushing and pulling (manual tasks), or moving objects.
Week 2 – Mental Health
Mental (psychological) health, just like physical health, is an important part of work health and safety. Work-related psychological injuries (mental illness) have a significant impact on workers, their families and business. These injuries may result in longer time away from work and cost more than other injuries. During this week, which also incorporates World Mental Health Day, we include information on how to identify psychosocial hazards and manage psychosocial risk, highlighting practical steps to control some common hazards.
Week 3 – Managing WHS risks and preventing harm
Managing WHS risks involves thinking about what could happen if someone is exposed to a hazard and how likely it is to happen. You should always aim to eliminate risks. If you can’t, you must minimise risks. During this week, we look at ways to manage WHS risks and prevent injuries and disease, including how and when to consult with workers on health and safety.
Week 4 – Safe and healthy work for all
Australia is a world leader in WHS. Unfortunately, workers and others continue to be injured at and by work, sometimes fatally. To make further gains, we need to ensure that WHS is core to how we do business in Australia. This week we look at the future of work, changing patterns and ways of working including the rise of automation, changes to work organisation and the emergence of new forms of work that will create both opportunities and complexities for Australia’s WHS system.
If you’re looking for more support in this area, contact our team and we will be in touch.