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Wellbeing SA recently launched the “A Walk can Work Wonders” campaign, which highlights ways to incorporate walking into our busy lives, including walking to work.
Did you know that breaking up prolonged periods of sitting with a short walk is better for your health than standing breaks? As we increasingly transition back to working in the office, there is an opportunity for employers to create a walking culture within their workplaces.
Creating a walking culture within your workplace can be as simple as encouraging employees to use active transport to get to work, to organise walking meetings where feasible, or promoting walking during lunch breaks. If you want to do something more, you could organise a once-off or more regular step challenges through the 10,000 Steps Team tournament website.
To coincide with the campaign, there is no better time to embed a culture of walking into your workplace than now.
For more information including tips to incorporate more activity across your day, visit the Wellbeing SA Website.
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Healthy Workplaces SA | Upcoming Community of Practice Event
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The next Community of Practice event has been rescheduled to Wednesday April 6th 2022 from 9.30 am - 11.00 am. Join us virtually for this FREE event which will include:
- an update of the SA Healthy Workplaces Strategy
- a case study presentation from the RAA: Building the wellbeing & resilience for an adaptable workforce
- examples of how to increase physical activity in the workplace
If you would like to attend please register your interest below and more information will be distributed in the coming weeks.
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Useful Information and Resources
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WayAhead Workplaces Post Lockdown Workplace Guide
WayAhead Workplaces in collaboration with Transitioning Well have created this fabulous guide which offers support during transitional periods as lockdowns in Australia ease, and employees may be looking to transition back into the workplace. The guide explores re-entry anxiety, returning to the office and hybrid work, vaccination mandates, supporting trauma, resignations and more.
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Healthy Workplaces 2022 Calendar
The Healthy Workplaces Health Events calendar for 2022 is now live on the Healthy Workplaces website. This is our most popular resource featuring a range of health promoting events throughout the year, providing you with examples of campaigns, activities, and often free promotional resources that workplaces can access and promote. Many campaigns that are not until later in the year will release more information closer to the date.
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Comcare Emerging Evidence Alerts
Did you know that Comcare produce an 'emerging evidence alert' each month which highlights the latest research on the health benefits of work, recovery at work, return to work, and work health and safety issues? Follow the link below to access and subscribe to the alerts.
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This meta-review on psychosocial work exposures and health outcomes found the associations between psychosocial work factors, cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders were generally significant, and the magnitude was stronger for mental disorders than for cardiovascular diseases. Significant associations were found between job strain and long working hours as exposures, and coronary heart diseases, (ischemic) stroke, and depression as outcomes.
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Hospitality has been one of the hardest hit sectors during the pandemic. New research from the University of South Australia shows that even with an end to lockdowns, social distancing requirements are adding to the stress and difficulty faced by many people working in service roles.
This new study published in The Journal of Service Theory and Practice, shows the challenges of adhering to social distancing requirements – and concerns about potential consequences of not doing so – are taking a heavy mental toll on many hospitality workers, eroding job satisfaction and increasing intention to leave the industry.
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This systematic review concluded that light walking may be better for cardiometabolic health indicators (e.g. postprandial glucose, systolic blood pressure, postprandial insulin) than standing to break up prolonged sitting in a free-living setting e.g. workplace environment.
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ReturnToWorkSA Workshops for 2022
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Comcare Training for 2022
Comcare now offers instructor-led virtual; training. This has been designed for various roles and responsibility's relevant to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) (WHS Act) and Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988. Training is available for employers, managers or supervisors, Workplace rehabilitation provider (WRPs) and Rehabilitation case managers.
Comcare training is designed to provide participants with skills and knowledge they can apply in their workplace to achieve a safe and healthy environment and improve workforce participation.
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Call for Business Case Study
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Are you a South Australian business implementing a workplace health program that has demonstrated positive outcomes for your staff and business? We would love to hear from you! We are interested to learn more about your success and share your best practice strategies with other South Australian organisations.
Please share your story and send it through by email to healthyworkers@sa.gov.au
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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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