Six Nabenet employees attended the 4th ARPA National Injury Management Conference held in Sydney on 16th – 18th May 2010. Appropriately titled ‘Wisdom + Innovation’ the conference hosted an array of impressive speakers who challenged us to consider health, well being and return to work from various directions adopting a ‘whole brain approach’. Work is [...]
WorkHealth recently announced that over 100,000 Victorian workers have now received a WorkHealth check since August 2009. The following data has been collected from these health checks: 832 Victorian workers tested were found to have a very high risk of cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes and advised to see a doctor within 24 hours [...]
Please click here to view training dates for 2010. 2 day WorkSafe RTW Coordinator Training and 2 day Advanced RTW and Claims Management sessions available across Victoria. Contact Teresa Coffey (03 9329 0656) for further information.
The Victorian Parliament has passed the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill 2009. The Bill contains reforms to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 and associated legislation. There will be some major changes taking effect as of 5 April 2010 and 1 July 2010 that will impact you as an employer. For more information please click here. Nabenet [...]
This year Nabenet entered 5 teams in the BRW Triathlon, which was held at Elwood Beach Sunday 28th February 2010. As part of Nabenet’s health and wellbeing program, team members participated in group training sessions which were held before and after work in the lead up to the event. The training sessions were a great [...]
The Heads of Workers’ Compensation Authorities (Australia and New Zealand) have endorsed the introduction of a Nationally Consistent Approval Framework for Workplace Rehabilitation Providers from 1st July 2010. This framework will establish practice principals designed to deliver high quality workplace rehabilitation services to workers, employers and insurers. Benefits will be: increased uniformity of workplace rehabilitation [...]
The flu season is just weeks away and to protect your organisation’s greatest asset, your employees, now is the time to book your flu vaccinations. The flu affects many Australians every year and costs businesses in decreased productivity and increased presenteeism – providing flu vaccinations to your employees can reduce flu-related absenteeism by 43%. [...]
Concerning data has been released by WorkHealth and published in the Herald Sun on Saturday 6 February 2010 in an article titled “Workplace check-up and survey program reveals…A health time bomb”. The data collected from WorkHealth checks shows many Victorians are drinking too much, are overweight, have unhealthy diets and are at high risk [...]
Nabenet Health were selected to perform cholesterol checks on David Hughes, Carrie Bickmore and Charlie Pickering from the 7pm Project. Health was the focus of the show, which aired Wednesday 13 January and the cholesterol results of the three presenters were discussed with guest, Doctor Andrew Rochford. With the WorkHealth Initiative currently running and providing [...]
Make 2010 the year that your organisation focuses on the health of its’ employees. Implementing a health and wellbeing program at your workplace can increase productivity, decrease absenteeism, decrease workers compensation costs and improve the physical and mental health of your employees. WorkHealth, a Victorian Government initiative, provides funding for health checks at the worksite, making them [...]
