Dr James Murray - Soft Tissue Centre - Looking for wellbeing opportunities

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Looking for wellbeing opportunities

Dr James Murray

Soft Tissue Centre


Soft Tissue Centre

• Workplace injury treatment for 15 years

• Specialists in workplace soft tissue injury

• 100,000 patients across industries/country

• Holistic wellbeing approach

• Average under 4 weeks treatment per injury


Wellness programs are great, BUT


Get to know your workers


Take aim


Wellbeing program implementation

Source: TAS Government - Developed from Queensland Health (1996) Better Health for Working People: Guiding Principles and World Health Organisation – Regional Office for the Western Pacific (1999). Regional guidelines for the development of health workplaces.


Key success elements

• Executive sponsor and a program coordinator

• Company needs to own the program

– external consultants support not manage

• Keep sustainability in mind

• Integrate with organisation governance

• Recognise health is determined by a set of interdependent work and non-work factors

Source: Implementing a Workplace Health and Wellbeing Program, TAS Government


Campbell’s Soup case study


Campbell’s Soup case study

2009 2013

Premium of $900,370 Premium reduced to $343,900

10 LTI’s 1 LTI

30 paid claims 2 paid claims

25 compensation claims 4 compensation claims

6 long-term claimants 1 long-term claimant

Low employee engagement (34%) Increased employee engagement (68%)

Low entrepreneurism and innovation Continuous Improvement culture & Increased Enablers ($20m over 5yrs)

Operational efficiency 74% Operational efficiency 89.1%

Highest injury record within the Campbell’s Arnotts network

Lowest injury record within the Campbell’s Arnotts network

High turnover of Salaried Staff Less than 1% turnover per annum


New and improved RTW


Ron’s story

• This is where Ron works now

• How does he feel?

• How is able to work?


Free stretching program posters

Contact us for free copies for your company


Take-aways

• Go beyond the fluffy

• Key issue focus aids sustainability

• WorkCover costs are wasteful

• Costs are NOT inevitable

• Monitor program performance

WE KEEP YOUR PEOPLE

WORKING


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