Downer recently launched a workplace wellness campaign as part of its Enhancing Workplace Health Program. Now in its second year of operation the Enhancing Workplace Health Program was developed on a number of recommendations based on the review of all OHS systems and procedures, visits to 12 worksites in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, and several focus group discussions with workforce representatives.
Quantitative evaluations of the program give us the ability to make recommendations on areas such as health monitoring, pre-employment screening, and identification of health priorities, future injury prevention, and health promotion programs. Heat-stress and musculoskeletal injury interventions have already been implemented at some sites.