Long term relationship building
Interestingly, this predominantly female workforce is known to have the highest incidence of manual handling injuries when compared to other industries. Other risk factors such as long hours, shift work, and stressful work environments also take their toll on staff. This compounded with the emotional demand of caring for others, often comes at the expense of the healthcare workers own health and wellbeing.
CBI understands that it takes time for individuals to make health a priority. But we are committed to long term, sustainable behaviour change and we understand that positive changes to lifestyle practices take time to be adopted. As such, we work with our clients to design programs to meet their unique demands, and recognise that achieving success in workplace health promotion takes time. Our work across Australia within this sector, as the case studies attest, certainly highlights this.