This challenge has seen unrivalled levels of participation and health improvement across Australia and New Zealand. More importantly, health and healthy habits become a hotly discussed topic around the site. Many workers will make genuine and sustainable health changes as a result of this proactive program.
What Does The 8 Week Health Challenge Involve?
The 8 Week Challenge consists of the initial assessment where the worker is undertakes a biometric analysis to identify the following:
- BMI
- Body Weight
- Body Fat %
- Body Water %
- Bone Mass
- Muscle Mass
- Metabolic Age
- Visceral Fat Level
The worker’s initial results are then recorded and discussed with the physiotherapist. Based on the results, goals are then set with a plan on how to improve results in 8 weeks. Capacity assessments can also be performed to set a baseline for the worker if required. Throughout the 8 weeks workers are provided educational content on how to improve their lifestyle before being reassessed at the end of the challenge.
Gain Real Results With Our Employee Health Challenge
Worker Health & Wellbeing
Each worker who participates in the challenge will have the access to their own health data that they likely never had the opportunity to access before. This data can be a strong motivator for the worker to implement health lifestyle changes.
Culture Change
The challenge can have the effect of driving workers to implement health lifestyle changes. Once a core group of workers have begun making changes to workplaces other workers tend to follow suit. Quite often we see the number of participants keen to partake in the second challenge more than double and lifestyle changes are sustained beyond the 8 weeks.
Workplace Health
The workplace will also receive de-identified health data of their workforce. This can provide a strong indication of the overall health of the workplace and identify areas to implement further proactive health measures and strategy.
Why Employ Health?
Experience
Employ Health works with businesses ranging from 15 to 2000+ staff, The 8 week challenge has been delivered at single sites to multi-sites both locally and nationally throughout NZ and Australia. This experience has led to some amazing individual and collective success with one company losing over 300kg’s total for its workforce over 8 weeks.
Elite Performance
As a leading performer in Workplace Health, Employ Health’s team of physiotherapists are all held to an extremely high standard of performance. Physiotherapists conducting the 8 week challenge training are regularly reviewed internally and undergo extensive training to ensure that professional and meticulous assessments are conducted every time.
Adaptability
Employ Health currently provides the 8 week challenge across a multitude of workplaces and industries. We recognise the fact that different workplaces and roles will have different requirements that do not benefit a one-size fits all approach. Prior to commencing the challenge we will establish the individual requirements of the workplace and adapt the challenge and processes to meet the needs of the partner.
Frequently Asked Questions
The challenge is open to all employees.
Results are measured using biometric scales with results then entered into a database and interactive booklet to be provided to the worker.
Absolutely! Prior to commencing the challenge Employ Health will hold a logistics and planning meeting to ensure processes and the assessment meets the workplaces’ individual needs.