Oh my quad, we have two absolute winners!

In September's edition of GB Advantage we provided our top tips for getting your workforce more active and asked you to tell us which strategies had worked best in your workplace. It's time to meet the winners of our bold 'Oh my quad' competition and find out how they've inspired healthier workplaces.

Congratulations go to…

Tennille Gould from West Wimmera Health Service:

Our Rainbow campus has spent the last 9 months encouraging work health improvement to staff and promoting the benefits of keeping healthy both in and out of work.

Given the Hospital is a remote campus in a small country town, the Service is not able to offer discount gym memberships or personal training programs so the team had to think outside the square in how to address this concern; this led to the introduction of our daily oval walks. Staff now have the opportunity to get 10 minutes of exercise and fresh air each day.

We also worked with our allied health team to build and implement a simple, yet effective four (4) minute exercise program aimed at stretching, increasing core strength and decreasing muscle tension.

The exercises were printed onto A4 sheets of paper, laminated and placed around the hospital to remind all staff to take the four minutes to do the exercises whenever possible.

A set of bold blue GB speakers are just what we need to pump some motivational tracks while we are doing our daily oval walks.

Belinda-Jayne Penrose from QUBE Ports:

I try to encourage an active workforce by hosting a healthy afternoon tea once a month where we have a health related theme that we can discuss.

I also plan on starting up a RTW newsletter for our site which will contain articles and information on reoccurring injury mechanisms, health related articles, subsidised health programs such as gym memberships and maybe even competitions such as ‘who took the most amount of steps for the month’.

A bold blue GB Bluetooth speaker is on the way Tennille and Belinda-Jayne - we'll contact you shortly to organise delivery!

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