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Get Healthy - Free Health Coaching Service
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Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service is a free personalised health coaching telephone service delivered by qualified health practitioners aimed at sustaining improvements in:
- healthy eating
- physical activity
- alcohol reduction
Get Healthy has 2 streams:
- 6 month coaching program
- one-time coaching call/ information only
Benefits for Workers
Get Healthy can help make your workers healthier, more productive and motivated, and help to:
- Achieve a healthy weight
- Eat Better
- Exercise More
South Australians who've completed the 6 month coaching program lose an average of 3.2 cm from their waist and 3.0kg from their weight.
Free Resources Available to Download:
Information sheet for management: a quick overview of the Get Healthy Service, how it can help your staff, and the advantages of supporting your workers to live a healthy life.
Workplace brochure: an overview of the Get Healthy Service, how it helps participants achieve their health and wellness goals and how to get involved. Distribute to staff members along with pay slips, put in staff pigeon holes, or simply leave in heavy traffic areas of your workplace, for example the staff kitchen.
Posters: display these in high traffic areas of your workplace such as the staff kitchen, on staff notice boards or in staff bathrooms.
For more information, visit the Get Healthy website at gethealthy.sa.gov.au, or call the Get Healthy Self referral line on 1300 806 258 (Mon-Fri 8am - 8pm).
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Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces
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In September 2021 the National Mental Health Commission released the draft Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces for review. The Blueprint represents over 18 months of research and expert stakeholder consultation, and aims to define a vision of mentally healthy workplaces that can be shared by all organisations and businesses across Australia. It also defines the core principles and focus areas for creating environments that protect, respond, and promote to support mental health.
This Blueprint has been developed as part of the National Workplace Initiative which aims to create a nationally consistent approach to mentally healthy workplaces. We recognise that every workplace and industry has unique needs. This Blueprint is intended to create a foundation that can be tailored for specific workplace or industry contexts. This Blueprint has been developed in consultation with the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance, the National Workplace Initiative Frameworks Working Group, and networks of people and organisations passionate about creating mentally healthy workplaces. Creating mentally healthy workplaces requires persistent action across three key pillars in any organisation. These pillars intersect, with action in one area often leading to improvements in other areas.
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Protect – Identify and manage work-related risks to mental health
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Respond – Build capability to identify and respond to support people experiencing mental ill-health or distress
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Promote – Recognise and enhance the positive aspects of work that contribute to good mental health
There are eight core principles for change that set organisation and team initiatives up for success. Thinking about “how” change can happen can be just as important as thinking about “what” change to make.
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Consult and listen
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Engage decision-makers early
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Link action to outcomes
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Assign accountability
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Integrate into business as usual
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Make change visible and transparent
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Base decisions on research-supported approaches
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Continually review and improve
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Seeking Nominations to to participate in the ASES Healthy Workplaces trial
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Wellbeing SA has been working with the SA Department of Human Services (DHS) to review the Australian Service Excellence Standards (ASES) to include an updated requirement about providing a healthy workplace (Certificate 4.2.6). ASES is a set of standards designed for the Health and Community Services and adopted nationally.
DHS would like to invite interested workplaces to participate in a pilot of these new requirements.
ASES helps organisations improve their business practices and client services whilst raising community confidence that sustainable and excellent services are available to them. Organisations will be given the opportunity to self-assess and/or gain a third party perspective on whether they are operating as a healthy organisation. This process will give invaluable insight on the opportunities for continuous improvement and provide evidence to drive the healthy workplace agenda across your organisation. The pilot needs to finish in April 2022.
Organisations can choose to conduct their self-assessment for free and provide the ASES team feedback via serviceexcellence@sa.gov.au by answering questions on whether the standards are relevant, understandable, achievable, beneficial, and measurable for your organisation. A survey link will be sent to organisations upon registration via the ASES activity form.
Those organisations that wish to partake in a third party external assessment can do so at a cost to their organisation. The external assessor will provide points for continuous improvement and gather information on the kind and type of signposts for a healthy workplace.
For further enquiries or if you would like to participate, please email the ASES team via serviceexcellence@sa.gov.au
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Useful Information and Resources
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Indicators of a Thriving Workplace | National Report 2021
Superfriend have just released Part 1 and Part 2 of the 2021 Indicators of a Thriving Workplace Report. The research explores some of the biggest issues facing Australian workplaces including how to support and attract the best workers, how to ensure your workers are both mentally healthy and productive, the impact large organisational change can have on worker mental health and what the best wellbeing initiatives workplaces can implement are.
More than 10,000 Australian workers from different industries, role types and locations are asked about their experience in their current workplace via an online research panel. This year Psychosocial risk questions were also introduced to provide additional insights into workplace mental health and to understand how minimising these risks helps workplaces to thrive.
For the first time ever, the report is an interactive microsite rather than a static PDF, allowing you to focus in on the information and insights that are most important to you and skip those that aren’t.
You can narrow your search for the most relevant insights into workplace mental health by selecting industry, organisation size, or location.
Key Points:
- The Australian thriving workplace score continues to climb! But we are still a long way from thriving.
- Mental Health conditions are on the rise for Australian workers, with more workers believing that their mental health condition is related to their workplace
- When workplaces are thriving there are many benefits for both individual workers and the workplace as a whole
- The healthiest workplaces that are truly thriving, are those with very low risk ratings for all nine psychosocial risks:
- Inappropriate workload
- Low recognition
- Poor change management
- Poor management support
- Low job control
- Poor role clarity
- Poor workplace relationships
- Poor working environment
- Traumatic events
To view the report including the newly released Part 2, visit the Superfriend website
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Challenging Behaviour and Occupational Violence
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Small Business & Wellbeing Resource Guide
Wellness Designs have put together this guide which lists a wide range of the available resources and support that exists for business. We recognise the impact that the pandemic has had on business, especially small business, and hope that this guide is of use. Topics covered include information specific to COVID-19, mental health, tools and toolkits, research and reports.
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Managing Minds Podcast
Support your team's mental health at work with this insightful five-part podcast series. From stopping burnout to managing an unhealthy work culture, this podcast is aimed at helping managers become more effective in dealing with mental health issues in the workplace.
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Working from Home or Living at Work?
Since 2009, the Centre for Future Work and the Australia Institute have commissioned an annual survey to investigate overwork and unpaid overtime in Australia. According to the recently released report for 2021, although total work hours have fallen, and much work has shifted to home, the amount of unpaid work that the average employed Australian performs each week continues to increase (6.13 hours of unpaid work per week reported in 2021, up from 5.3 hours in 2020).
There is a continued blurring of lines between work and home lives, especially in the context of additional family and caring responsibilities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which appears to be more severe for women.
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A recent study has found that leaders who take responsibility for their own health, as well as implement health promotion programs can influence a healthier workplace culture.
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A two-year study by Great Place to Work® of more than 800,000 employees at Fortune 500 companies found that most people reported stable or even increased productivity levels after employees started working from home. Interestingly the biggest impact on remote work productivity came from the same factors that influence in-person productivity: company culture and leadership.
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Seeking Volunteers for Photoshoot!
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We're looking to update our Healthy Workplaces photography and are in need of some talent! Would you like to volunteer your workplace and staff to participate in a photo shoot with a professional photographer? We expect the photo shoot to take place early next year and will take some simple photographs of staff working together in different environments. If interested, please email your contact details through to healthyworkers@sa.gov.au including what industry you're in, and we will get back in touch with you next year! |
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Community of Practice Event | Save the Date!
The first Healthy Workplaces Community of Practice event for 2022 has been scheduled for Thursday 17 March 2022. Please save this date in your calendar and make sure you are subscribed to our mailing list to keep up to date with more details as they emerge.
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ReturnToWorkSA Workshops for 2022
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Thank you for your interest in workplace health and wellbeing in South Australia. Please feel free to send us relevant information to be included in future updates or forward on to those that may like to subscribe. If you have any questions about this newsletter, please contact healthyworkers@sa.gov.au.
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