How Impact Health can help your business or organisation

By embedding a health and wellness programme in your workplace Impact Health can help improve productivity and performance at your workplace by ensuring that your employees are physically and mentally well. This enables employees to work to their potential. It also reduces absences and improves staff morale and wellbeing.

Our office is located in Hawkes Bay. We work accross New Zealand for national organisations.

Health and Wellness for Your Employees

What are typical workplace health conditions?

Many medical conditions and potential issues remain undiscovered for long periods of time and without active intervention can result in unexplained illness, lack of energy and commitment at work or even just simple inability to concentrate and perform.

Typically conditions can include:

Cardiovascular risk (heart health and circulation)
Diabetes – undiagnosed and known
Drug and alcohol use
Smoking – and related impact on personal and family health
Physical inactivity- lack of motivation or disability
Excess weight
Sleep Apnoea
Specific cancers – prostate cancer, cervical, breast or other cancers
Wellbeing and mental health issues including – stress, depression, anxiety, tiredness, sleep deprivation
Various other conditions –illness, fatigue and other physical and psychosocial needs

These all have the potential to adversely affect a person’s personal life, their relationships and their ability to deliver at work. Once identified, appropriate action can be taken to reduce or mitigate the effects of these conditions.

The key is to get started

Often there are barriers to accessing the assessment needed to start the process.

These include:

The employee is unaware of any underlying health condition
Employees can be anxious about what may be identified
The inconvenience and time required to go and see a health professional
Feelings of anxiety re conventional appointment processes.
Finances at home can be so tight that health care is not sought when it should be

The familiarity of the workplace presents an opportunity to access health services in a way that is less intimidating and more convenient than traditional processes. Our approach is professional but down to earth and tailored to the culture of each unique workplace.

What stops people accessing appropriate health support?

We aim to reduce or remove those barriers by:

Delivering our assessments in the workplace; creating easy access and confidentiality through our nurse led mobile nursing service.
Providing useful, easily understood information and education to empower the person to take the first steps toward improved health outcomes.
Working with the whole work place to set up initiatives that create a healthier environment and encourage improved health outcomes, ensuring long-term gains for all involved.
Ensuring people with complex health issues are supported and assisted by arranging referral to other health-service providers as needed.

We Specialise in delivering

Health Monitoring:

WorkSafe NZ states: “Health monitoring and exposure monitoring are an important part of ensuring the health of workers.”

Health monitoring involves testing a person to identify any changes in their health status because of exposure to certain health hazards arising from their work, such as noise or contaminants in the air like hazardous dusts, fumes or vapours. It is a way to check if a worker’s health is being harmed by the work they do, and aims to detect early signs of ill-health or disease.

- Health monitoring can show if the risk management practices a business has put in place are working effectively http://www.worksafe.govt.nz

Impact Health’s health monitoring includes:

Spirometry testing to detect early changes in lung function
Audiometric testing to detect early hearing loss.
Vision Testing
Drug and Alcohol Testing - NZQA Certified
Chemical Testing

Health Assessments (WOF)

Every employee is offered two 30 minute appointments and a regime of tests, recommendations and follow-up actions.

Screening includes a detailed health assessment including:

Family History of Illness
Height, Weight, Body Mass Index
Blood Pressure
Breast/Cervical / Prostate Screening
Alcohol Screening
Mental Health including questions on depression
Smoking History, cessation, NRT
Sleep apnoea
General health issues
Where appropriate blood tests taken onsite for heart health (cholesterol), diabetes, prostate and sent to the laboratory for testing.
Smoking cessation brief intervention provided and offered nicotine replacement therapy or other medication and support.

ALLIED SERVICES

Impact Health has expertise with additional specialised workplace health services that can be incorporated into your workplace health plan.

We would be happy to discuss the relevance of each of these to your particular situation.

Pre-employment Health Assessments
Troubleshooting absenteeism
Flu Vaccinations
Drug and Alcohol Testing- Pre Employment and Random testing performed to NZQA specifications.
Ergonomic Workstation
ACC Return to Work Programmes
Education Programmes –covering topics including managing stress, understanding healthy eating, physical activity action, diabetes, heart disease risk, women’s health, men’s health. Associated with this programme are referrals to counselling services
Diabetes Awareness - We work with a Diabetes Specialist GP to provide the – ‘Why should I care?' seminars which alert employees to the nature and prevalence of diabetes in a style that employees can readily identify with

Reporting Processes- What You Can Expect

Information For Employees

Assessment information is made available to employees through a Personalized Employee Feedback Pack containing their results and health resource information.
Referral and follow-up options are identified and talked through with each employee to the extent to which each intervention scenario allows.
Where appropriate and with the consent of the staff member, contact will be made with their GP and results shared.

Information For Employers

Summarised, anonymous data and commentary will be reported to management.

Within the bounds of the confidentiality agreements between Impact Health and its patients, reporting to management covers the following:

Health Assessments:

The numbers of employees seen , how often, whether it was a standard or comprehensive assessment , what was discovered and what actions were taken (non-identifiable).

Monitoring:

General reporting on what tests were completed, referrals made and results. Conclusions are offered as to the relative health of your workforce with particular areas of interest highlighted. A sample management report is available on request and we can tailor specific reports to your requirements.

Benchmarking:

Based on data we have from other worksites we can benchmark your company against similar organisations. We also have access to national statistics against which comparisons of individual workplaces can be very useful. Comparisons of relative health of the workplace overtime are available when Impact Health is asked to run its programmes over successive years.

Our service works with your team members to help them identify any health related issues that need to be addressed. We are trusted, independent, registered nurses and confidentiality is assured.