Workplace Health Awareness Seminars
Present your employees with practical information and realistic strategies on ways to improve their health, safety and wellbeing.
Our health awareness seminars educate and support your employees to understand, address and manage their health and wellness at work.
These seminars also raise your employees’ awareness regarding their sleep, nutrition, exercise and stress, and how these important elements impact their wellbeing.
Health Awareness Seminars:
Men’s Health Seminars
Men often ignore health issues and tend to be less likely than women to seek out health information. Yet an unhealthy lifestyle based on poor health choices can result in chronic disease – and have a direct impact on their absenteeism and productivity at work.
This seminar is designed to increase awareness of major health issues, and how to avoid them. It gives your male employees the information and motivation they need to make healthy changes to their lifestyle.
Presented by a fully qualified men’s health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
Prostate & testicular cancers
Obesity
Heart health
Diabetes
Stress
Mental health
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Women’s Health Seminars
This seminar and webinar educate and support your female employees to help them manage their health and wellness at work.
It provides education and vital guidance about women’s health issues and concerns, and gives practical advice on how to live a healthier lifestyle.
Presented by a fully qualified women’s health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
Understanding hormones
Breast and ovarian cancer
Obesity and diabetes
Cardiovascular disease
Menopause
Women’s nutritional needs
Depression
Women’s health check list
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Healthy Heart
With the proactive message that “heart disease can be prevented”, our popular Healthy Heart seminar shows employees of all ages how they can look after their heart health and avoid cardiovascular disease.
Presented by a fully qualified health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
The statistics and facts on heart disease
Risk factors you can control
How factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, stress and poor food choices can contribute to
heart disease
Practical steps employees can take right now to reduce their risk of heart disease, and improve
their heart health.
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Note: There is a maximum of 25 participants for each session.
Know Your Numbers
With the proactive message that “heart disease can be prevented”, our popular Know Your Numbers seminar shows employees of all ages how important it is to know your numbers and how they can avoid cardiovascular disease.
Presented by a fully qualified health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
Risk factors and prevention of blood pressure
Signs, symptoms, risk factors and prevention of diabetes
Risk factors and prevention of blood cholesterol
Weight management
Practical steps to reduce risk of heart disease
Practical steps to improve heart health
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Note: There is a maximum of 25 participants for each session.
Sleep Well
Sleep issues and a lack of sleep is becoming more prevalent in the workplace, causing problems for employers and employees alike . Adults with sleep problems tire easily, are more prone to sickness, have poor concentration and are a safety risk to themselves and others.
Presented by a fully qualified health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
What is sleep?
Your body clock
Sleepy brain chemicals
The importance of exercise
Family and social life
Staying alert at work
Sleep and fatigue checklist
During the seminar participants will have the opportunity to complete the eight item “Epworth Sleepiness Scale” questionnaire to assist them to identify the presence of a sleep related.
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Note: There is a maximum of 25 participants for each session.
Workplace Mindfulness
In this one off 45 minute Mindfulness Workshop for up to 20 participants, we cover the origins and history of mindfulness, the science behind Mindfulness and the health benefits associated from regular practice.
Also included in the workshop is a 15 minute practical component giving employees the opportunity to try it out for themselves and ask any questions that may arise.
Presented by a fully qualified health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
History & Origins
Health Benefits
Science behind mindfulness
Practice time
The seminar is delivered onsite, while the webinar is presented online. Both are presented exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Energy Booster
The presenter will educate your employees on the interrelationship between sleep, nutrition, drugs and alcohol, exercise and stress and the effects they have on overall energy levels and the ability to deal with stress. The goal is to provide realistic strategies to incorporate sustainable changes into a busy lifestyle.
Presented by a fully qualified health professional, the seminar and webinar include:
Energy balance
Nutrition
Sleep / fatigue
Exercise
The seminar is delivered onsite exclusively to your employees, by qualified professionals.
Note: There is a maximum of 25 participants for each session.
Your Seminar & Webinar Also Includes:
Resources
Fast Facts handouts for each employee summarising the key points
Online booking system with wait-list option
Promotional materials including a customised poster and emailers
Customised options
We customise all our programs to suit your business. You can change the length, regularity and even the content of these sessions.
Presenters
Our presenters are hand-picked to suit the culture of your organisation. They are all qualified professionals and experienced group presenters. They will also take the time to stay around after the seminar to answer questions or lead a discussion.
Benefits of Health Awareness Seminars
Increases resilience at work and everyday life stressors
Builds resistance to ill mental health
Employees are more likely to seek help for themselves or others
Increases understanding of mental health issues
Helps teams function at a higher level
Reduces absenteeism and presenteeism
Shortens return to work periods of mental illness
Reduces staff turnover levels
Helps to retain and attract talent
Health Awareness Resources
5 Tips to Keep Your Heart Healthy Flyer
Did you know that heart disease is the single leading cause of death in Australia? Here are our top 5 tips for keeping your heart healthy in the current environment.
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Healthy Tips for Men Flyer
We understand the importance of increasing awareness and educating your male employees on their health issues and risks. Help the men in your life take control of their health!
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”Motivate and inspire your team to better health
What you get
Healthworks provides clients with many extras at no extra cost, all designed to make your job easier. Once you sign off on a service, you will be allocated a program manager who will look after all aspects of your service delivery.
Your program manager will provide ongoing advice and will coordinate all Healthworks staff and contractors. You will also receive:
- Promotional posters and emails customised with your
logo and event details - An online booking system with wait-list option
- Fast Facts sheet
- Employee feedback and evaluations for each activity
