For your Whole Team...
Ford Health offers a range of medically supervised programs that provide the tools and information to motivate and support every member of your team to proactively look after their own health. The following programs are particularly time and cost effective for large workgroups. They can be delivered to many employees across a range of workplaces and locations including regional and remote settings. The key components are conducted in your workplace.
Online Personal Health System
The myhealth program is designed to check your employee's current health and determine their risk of developing diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease over a 12 month period. The aim of the program is to help improve the health and wellbeing of your employees through careful monitoring and assistance so they make better lifestyle choices in the future.
This program includes:
- myhealth Resource Pack
- promotional posters and handouts
- project site brief and program management timetable
- full access to the myhealth website for 12 months
- a personal myhealth profile
- online health risks questionnaire
- personal health report and GP referral letter for the individual
- group corporate health report for your organisation
- action and risk list
- monthly myhealth newsletter
- online health coaching resources
- health e-learning modules
- 'Ask the doctor' support tool
- health trackers to track and monitor progress
- fact sheets
All individual information remains confidential and private.
Exercise Challenge
Add a sense of fitness, fun and friendly competition to your workplace with Ford Health's exercise challenge. This 10 week team-based exercise challenge encourages your staff to exercise in teams of 4 over a 10 week period. They can then enter their steps on the mychallenge website and track their progress as they move around some of the most fascinating destinations in Australia. You can even have a customised route so teams can travel to your organisation's specific work sites.
This program includes:
- promotional posters and handouts
- project site brief and program management timetable
- access to the mychallenge website - an optional mytrainer module is available
- resource pack including a resource book, pedometer, progress chart and log book
- weekly motivational emails
- fortnightly reports
- end of challenge report
- online exercise converter to convert other forms of exercise into steps
- waist and weight tracking tools
- steps to kilojoule converter
- health information fact sheets and resources related to eating well, exercise and work/life balance
Workplace Seminars and Workshops
As part of our commitment to assisting our clients achieve 'healthier people for better business', we offer a range of educational health and lifestyle seminars and / or licenses to utilise these materials. If required, these can be customised to suit the specific health risks for their organisation.
These seminars cover topics such as:
- diet and healthy eating
- women's health
- men's health
- reading food labels
- healthy lifestyle
- back care and posture
- disease prevention
- exercise
- cooking demonstrations
These seminars are a great way to get your workplace thinking and talking about their health and wellbeing in order to take action! Learn more about these seminars and what we have to offer by contacting us today!
Skin Checks
The aim of this program is to determine an employee's risk of developing skin cancer and check for any developing lesions. This allows high risks individuals to adopt appropriate checking techniques in order to monitor these risks in the future.
Ford Health provides top-to-toe skin screening examinations by a medical practitioner. All subsequent treatments are the responsibility of the employee. Urgent referrals and follow-ups are made by Ford Health if required.
This program includes:
- a 10 minute private and confidential screening
- handouts and brochures
- on-site counselling
- referrals to specialists as required
- program management and scheduling
Flu Vaccinations
More than 1 in 5 workers can be absent during the winter season due to cold and flus. Ford Health's Flu Vaccination Program helps to ensure you and your organisation can perform at your best and at maximum capacity all year round. Studies show that a workplace flu vaccination program can decrease absenteeism from the flu by 43 per cent.
Be sure to take action early to avoid the disruption of the flu and even better, save significant costs associated with sick-leave
Ford Health's comprehensive program involves the following:
- a 10 minute private and confidential vaccinations
- handouts and brochures
- on-site counselling
- referrals to specialists as required
- program management and scheduling
Ergonomic Assessments
This program aims to prevent work-related musculo-skeletal disorders and systemic injury prevention within the workplace. It takes place onsite at the individual's workstation whether they be stationed at a desk, use heavy machinery or a combination of both.
In a 15 minute individual assessment an exercise physiologist will Identify potential practices that could result in injury or repetitive strain. They will communicate risks involved with the individual to make changes to their workstation and also review current equipment that may need to be updated or modified to enable employees to work in a safe manner.
The assessment includes:
- a review of the employees workstation including chair, desk and foot rest adjustment, keyboard and mouse, computer screen, posture and other issues such as workstation set up and cleanliness
- a consultation with an exercise physiologist providing recommendations such as stretching exercises for good back care
- educational materials
- a snap shot report supplied on participation
Healthy Program Design and Analysis
The aim of this program is to assist you to develop, implement and evaluate a high quality and effective Corporate Health Program, tailored to your business requirements. With the use of thorough preliminary analysis and planning, we develop a program that is cost-effective and entirely suits your requirements.
Through careful measurement, risks can be quantified and, most importantly, results can be objectively evaluated. You’ll also benefit from Ford Health’s accumulated experience from working with many public and private organisations.
This program includes:
- needs assessments and planning
- health program management and consulting
- data analysis and corporate reporting
- program evaluation