Articles tagged under ‘Workplace interventions’

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• Can you ‘teach’ workers to be more emotionally resilient?

  You may know someone like this at work: optimistic and resilient, they appear to bounce through challenges drawing on an internal strength that helps them work through problems they encounter at work.

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• Bus Wellness Guides 3: Ideas and Resources

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• Bus Wellness Guide 1: advice for operators and leaders

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• Webinar recording: Improve mental health in your workplace

  An introduction to the Workplace Alliance and Beyondblue's workplace mental health initiative

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• Speaking Up 3: Staff speaking up

  As an employee, it's often seen as easier to keep quiet, but the reality is that you need to speak up.

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• Speaking Up 1: The Benefits of Open Communication

  Open communication in the workplace is sign of a positive workplace culture.

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• Webinar recording: Cultivating happiness at work to improve RTW

  The Happiness at Work Program, a 30-day program devised to improve personal happiness and positively impact workplace productivity.

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• Lifestyle Factors and RTW: Fatigue

  Fatigue is often the result of a lack of sleep, prolonged mental or physical work, or lengthy periods of stress or anxiety. Sound familiar?

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• Lifestyle Factors and RTW: Fitness

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics found that 71% of the Australian working population aren't getting enough exercise.

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• Psychological Cases: prevention is better than the cure

  The workplace is a social environment. For many, this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of their job. For others, depending on the workplace, the negative impacts on their psychology can be enormous.

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• Workplace Nonchalance: who cares?

  Nonchalant employees are not unhappy. They're not disgruntled. They’re people who show up day after day and go through the motions.

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• Workplace Incivility: where are your manners?

  Incivility is being rude, discourteous and showing a lack of regard for others. The behaviour harms the target, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It may also occur in the cyberspace, such as not replying to email or sending terse emails.

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• Webinar Recording: The nuts and bolts of work oriented treatment

  Gain an understanding of the practical aspects of Work Oriented Treatment for workers experiencing psychological injury.

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• Webinar Recording: Improving RTW Outcomes - the Strategic Impact of Work Oriented Treatment Part 1

  Gain an understanding of the strategic impact of Work Oriented Treatment for workers experiencing psychological injury.

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• Mental Health: developing an action plan for your workplace - part 1

  An estimated one in five employees will be impacted by a mental health condition at any one time in Australia.

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• Case Study: I Told Them but They Didn't Listen

  Ms L is a right handed 46 year old who was employed for ten years to pack domestic cleaning chemicals. She was exposed to these chemicals in dust form.

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• Role Summary: Psychologist

  Psychology is the study of the mind and associated behaviours. A psychologist's focus may be on either individuals or groups.

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• Webinar Recording: Employers taking the lead role

  In this webinar Kerry Foster, Director of Active Occupational Health Services, will discuss the importance of the employer’s involvement in the return to work.

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• RTW and the workplace: Reciprocity rules Part 2

  Results from the national Return to Work Survey show the strength and consistency of workplace influence on employee RTW

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• Webinar Recording: Participatory Ergonomics & Manual Handling

  This presentation will discuss how “Participatory Ergonomic” principles can be considered and implemented to increase workplace involvement in effectively controlling manual handling risks.

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• eLearning: Musculoskeletal troubles

  Understanding the difficulties everyone faces with musculoskeletal problems can help you help workers

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• Mental health at work, Steps to get there

  An interview with Ingid Ozols, director of mh@work, exploring how mental health can be improved through the introduction of workplace programs.

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• Why bother with workplace wellness?

  1. Return on investment; 2. Health and productivity for ageing workers...

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• Getting RTW buy-in

  Seasoned return to work professional Joanne Taranto explains the basis of a great RTW program.

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• Video presentation: Participatory ergonomics

  Combining ergonomics WITH participation opens up a treasure load of possible solutions.

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• Workplace wellbeing - front and Centre(link)

  We speak to Jody Bell about Centrelink's award-winning health and wellbeing initiative.

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• Sedentary exercise

  Think that 30-40 minutes of daily exercise gets an office-based workforce off the hook? Think again. Activity throughout the day is a must for good health.

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• Job Rotation - 3

  Implementing job rotation.

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• Job Rotation - 2

  Overcome the common barriers and ensure employee buy-in.

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• Job Rotation - 1

  Want to boost productivity, improve job satisfaction and reduce the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries?

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• How do I find meaningful alternate duties?

  Here we respond to a common RTW Coordinator question.

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• The age of manual handling

  Qantas at Brisbane Airport safely retains older manual handling workers by asking whether there is a match between required tasks and individual capacity...

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• Outside the city, outside the square

  In a close-knit rural community, one RTWC's resourceful approach transforms a movement-limiting spinal injury into a business and career opportunity.

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• New vision for old

  The ageing workforce may necessitate more accommodations for vision loss. What are the high and low tech options?

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• Designer jobs

  Does job design affect health and performance in the workplace? And if so, how can jobs be redesigned to improve both?

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• What helps people with long-term disease remain at work?

  Making work modifications for workers with a long-term disease can help them avoid sickness absence and work disability, and improve their productivity.

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• What's with 'That Department'?

  Want something done at work? It helps to know what and who you're working with. Start by asking yourself these questions...

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• How to win change and influence people

  A change is as good as a holiday, right? Time to implement change where it's needed.

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• Top ten reasons to have a health and wellbeing program

  Need some ammunition to make the case for investment in health and wellbeing? Look no further than our latest top ten...

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• Employees tough to budge on workplace health?

  Dr Steve Beller says 'Joy of living' is a much more powerful motivator than 'fear of illness and death'.

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• The Stress Series Part 3 - Prevention programs in the workplace

  Employers can take action to beat the problem of stress before it even arises. This article looks at the benefits of stress prevention programs.

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• Promoting active workplaces for better work health

  For employers looking to increase productivity and reduce sick days, a workplace wellness program could be the answer.

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• On-site injury management

  A chapter summary from the book 'Moving in on occupational injury' exploring the benefits of on-site medical presence.

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• Jos Verbeek on The Cochrane Occupational Health Field

  The Cochrane Occupational Health Field gathers evidence on the effectiveness of occupational health interventions and publishes reviews. RTW Matters spoke with Coordinator Jos Verbeek.

Archived Articles 1 - 5 of 5

• Back on Course

  Horse-racing may be the sport of kings, but the humble jockey often pays the cost. What are the RTW processes and options for injured jockeys?

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• Return to Work Matters Strategic Summer Reading Package

  Three volumes of RTWMatters Greatest Hits to get you pointed in the right direction

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• Health intervention gets outta town!

  At 10 000 steps a day, healthy creativity goes a LONG way...

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• The scientific method: Successful health and wellbeing strategies at the CSIRO.

  A tailored, best practice Health and Well Being program.

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• Work-related musculoskeletal disorders

  Of all Australian work-related injuries, a large percentage can be categorised as musculoskeletal disorders.

Research 1 - 20 of 20

• Research short: Cutting down sick leave

  Another study confirms the link between poor workplace culture, poorly defined roles, emotionally demanding work and high rates of sick leave.

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• Research short: Is integrated care value for $?

  A European study of an integrated care program for workers with long term back problems shows a return of $26 for every $1 invested.

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• Research short: Armed against arm pain

  Reducing repetitive work is not the only option to consider when attempting to accommodate arm pain in the workplace.

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• Research short: Are lumbar supports value for money?

  This study looks at the cost-effectiveness AND health effectiveness of lumbar supports for home care workers with recurrent low back pain.

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• What helps RTW for people with chronic pain?

  Surveys can help identify factors that will improve RTW.

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• Supervising recovery

  Employer response to injury impacts employee recovery. This study identifies where employers go wrong and how to fix it!

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• Improving disability management in the workplace

  What works when designing disability management programs in the workplace?

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• Mismanaging depression

  What are the barriers to effective management of depression in the workplace?

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• Does safety education save backs?

  Can workplace back safety education programs reduce the risk of back injuries and complications?

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• Which workers are more likely to experience depression?

  And the causes.

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• Powerful partnerships

  The evidence is in: when employers join workers on the RTW journey, the sky's the limit!

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• Success with systems at work for shoulders

  Shoulder problems are common. Having a standard management system in place can streamline return to work.

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• RTW rates in a slump?

  Better disability management programs can make a difference

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• RTW interventions assessed

  A mixed bag of workplace interventions have been trialled over the last 20 years. What works?

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• Preventing unnecessary disability

  An overview of the complex factors influencing the return to work of sick and injured workers, and recommendations as to return to work strategies can be improved.

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• Empowering employers to fight depression

  A short guide to depression busting in the workplace

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• Challenges and opportunities for preventing depression

  This article explores some of the ways to manage and prevent major depression in the workplace.

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• The business of depression

  There is a good business case for educating your workforce about depression

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• Depression, anxiety and fatigue care can improve productivity

  Depression is the most significant contributor to reduced productivity

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• Employer flexibility helps cancer survivors return to work

  Returning to work after cancer treatment is difficult, but employers can make a difference.