Workplace Health and Wellbeing Programs

Boost Workplace Wellbeing

Boost provides just that, a wellbeing program focussed on boosting all the basics of your employees’ physical and mental health. Underpinned by our behavioural change based digital solution, AltiusLife, this program provides an accessible option for all organisations.

Boost includes our three one hour core modules:

AltiusLife Launch: Engage your employees with everything they need to know to benefit from the digital platform and app. This module gives an introduction to the behavioural change science behind the platform with a focus on how employees can maximise the features to boost their health and wellbeing.

Physical Wellbeing Focus: An introduction to the top tips, trends and takeaways for a wellbeing boost to everyday activity and nutrition that is meaningful and achievable for all.

Mental Wellbeing Focus: With one in five people experience poor mental health, this module provides education to support individuals to feel equipped to recognise key issues and provides resources and direction to navigate mental health challenges.

Balance Workplace Wellbeing

Balance is a mid-level wellness offering providing a combination of AltiusLife digital platform with a series of six modules, recommended over six months. Balance modules are evidence based, delivered by allied health professionals and most importantly target the most detrimental health behaviours relevant to a workplace, to deliver the highest health impact.

Balance includes the three core Boost modules together with three of your choosing from our wellbeing selection. We help you select the most beneficial modules for your organisation to achieve maximum impact for your wellbeing investment. If you are unsure of your team’s needs we offer wellbeing satisfaction surveys to identify key risk areas.

Best Workplace Wellbeing

Best is the most comprehensive offering and maximises the impact of your program for both your employees and your organisation. This offering also includes AltiusLife digital and focuses on providing twelve comprehensive, results orientated group modules. Together with the initial three core Boost modules, with Best you choose an additional nine workplace wellbeing modules. As with all our programs, we help you design most beneficial program for your organisation to achieve maximum impact for your wellbeing investment. If you are unsure of your team’s needs, our workplace wellbeing satisfaction surveys can help you identify key risk areas.

Bespoke Workplace Wellbeing

Bespoke is the program that allows complete customisation of our workplace wellbeing offerings to support you through group or individual customised modules. Depending on your needs, we will make suitable recommendations and work with you to manage key risk areas and your strategic objectives.

AltiusLife

The Digital Platform Supporting Employee Wellbeing

Altius Group’s flexible on-line platform and mobile app underpins all our workplace wellbeing programs. AltiusLife is based on a neuroscience model focusing on physical, mental and social wellbeing delivering the benefits of health, happiness and security. The engaging platform supports behavioural change and personalises wellbeing by helping employees to balance their interests and responsibilities both within the workplace and at home. Employees gain access to great evidence-based articles, self-reporting health surveys, tips, ideas, health trackers and rewards. Each interaction is designed to help individuals realise their health potential throughout every stage of life.

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Altius Wellbeing Packages

Workplace Wellbeing Modules

Workplace wellbeing modules can be delivered face to face or as webinar or online format. These modules can be delivered as part of a staff conference, a lunch and learn session, a training day, a workplace off-site or the delivery method that suits your organisation best.

Each Altius Group Workplace Wellbeing package includes our three one hour core modules:

AltiusLife Launch: Engage your employees with everything they need to know to benefit from the digital platform and app. This module gives an introduction to the behavioural change science behind the platform with a focus on how employees can maximise the features to boost their health and wellbeing.

Physical Wellbeing Boost: An introduction to the top tips, trends and takeaways for a wellbeing boost to everyday activity and nutrition that is meaningful and achievable for all.

Mental Wellbeing Boost: With one in five people experience poor mental health, this module provides education to support individuals to feel equipped to recognise key issues and provides resources and direction to navigate mental health challenges.

Physical Health Modules

Physical Wellbeing Boost:  An introduction to the top tips, trends and takeaways for a wellbeing boost to everyday activity and nutrition that is meaningful and achievable for all. 

Move More: Too busy to exercise? Sitting all day? Incidental activity is key to optimising daily movement. Learn how to integrate lasting habits into the everyday for health improvement. Incidental exercise is shown to reduce risk factors of chronic disease and improve physical and mental wellbeing.

Optimising Health Through Nutrition: Delivers recommendations for optimal health and wellness, nutrition anchors and advice to keep you physically and emotionally well. Covers the foods and nutrients that support mood and brain health to boost concentration and mental clarity as well as those to aid anxiety, stress and depression.

Manual Task Training: Are you managing your employees’ risk? With over a third of workplace injuries associated with manual tasks, we guide employees through best practice for lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or holding a load, object or person. This training module is tailored to cover duties specific to each workplace.

Ergonomic Training for the Working Environment: Whether your team’s on the road, working from home or in an office, these latest tips and techniques will ensure they are creating an optimal match between themselves, the work they perform and the equipment they use.

Promote health and morale, minimise injury risk, boost productivity and decrease staff turnover and absenteeism. Designed and presented by our physiotherapists, occupational therapists and exercise physiologists, this module fosters an ergonomics ethos across all levels of an organisation.

Mental Health Modules

Mental Wellbeing Boost:  With one in five people experiencing poor mental health, this module provides education to support individuals to feel equipped to recognise key issues and provides resources and direction to navigate mental health challenges. 

Changing Habits to Optimise Health: We develop good and bad habits throughout our lifetime. Some of these can become firmly entrenched and are difficult to change. However, changing habits can help transform stress, build confidence, and create a happier and healthier lifestyle. Learn tips and strategies to make lasting change and embrace new habits to improve wellbeing.

Sleep Management and Fatigue: Inadequate sleep can affect our general health and wellness, reduce workplace productivity and performance and impact decision making. Establishing good sleep habits and routines is also important to achieve optimum health and wellbeing. This session provides insights and strategies to improve sleep quality and help optimise sleep habits.

Building Resilience: Why is it that some people seem to have the ability to bounce back from adversity and continue to develop and grow? This module explores the concept of resilience and why it is so important. Practical resources are provided to support the development of resilience in individuals.

Stress and Anxiety: Stress and anxiety are often viewed interchangeably, however, there are differences in the causes and management of the two states. Knowing how to treat stress-specific issues can increase resilience, performance and improve subjective wellbeing. This module defines stress, helps participants distinguish stress from anxiety and provides practical stress reduction strategies.

Emotional Intelligence: Explore the components of emotional intelligence in this session designed to increase self-awareness of current emotional intelligence including non-verbal behaviour and the emotions of others. Enhance decision-making and people skills using a healthy balance of emotion and reason whilst identifying strategies for building resilience.

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: It isn’t often that we consider the interactions between body and mind. Fascinating research continues to grow in the area of mental health, digestive health and the key to holistic wellbeing. This module explores the connection physical health and diet has with mental health and mood, including tips to create and maintain biological and psychological wellbeing.

Positive People and Psychology: This highly interactive module will allow you to explore the idea that changing our way of thinking, can have a positive impact in different areas of our lives. Learn strategies and tips to improve your own positivity and how we can manage our thoughts to improve our wellbeing.

Digital Health: In such a technology dependant age, finding the balance between helpful and unhelpful technology use can be difficult. Current research reveals staggering associations between neuroplasticity, brain stimulation and technology

Social Health

Enhancing Your Relationships: Human beings are naturally social, we crave friendships and positive interactions. This module offers insights on how to build, maintain and repair relationships across professional and personal situations with practical strategies and ideas.

Engaging with Your Community: Many organisations increasingly recognise that a meaningful Corporate Social Responsibility policy and community engagement is vital for company reputation and attracting and retaining employees, particularly the more socially aware millennial generation. This module outlines the connections employees can make, the wellbeing benefits of engaging with their community and the opportunities available both internally and externally. Encouraging engagement improves organisational culture and fosters employee loyalty and wellbeing.

Create the Life You Want: If we are unaware of our values and how they align with our responsibilities and tasks, we may be unsatisfied with our lives. This future focused module encourages participants to identify their values and take intentional action to help them live their values and achieve goals of importance to them. Aligning personal values and purpose is increasingly recognised as the key to living a more fulfilled life.

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Altius Wellbeing Modules

AltiusLife Digital App/Platform

The Digital Platform Supporting Employee Wellbeing:

The Digital Platform Supporting Employee Wellbeing: Altius Group’s flexible online platform and mobile app underpins all our programs. AltiusLife is based on a neuroscience model focusing on physical, mental and social wellbeing delivering the benefits of health, happiness and security.

The engaging platform supports behavioural change and personalises wellbeing by helping staff to balance their interests and responsibilities both within the workplace and at home.

Employees gain access to great evidence-based articles, self-reporting health surveys, tips, ideas, health trackers and rewards. Each interaction is designed to help individuals realise their health potential throughout every stage of life.

AltiusLife - FAQ

What is the minimum time frame from signing the contract to the launch of AltiusLife?

Ideally, we need a minimum of 4 weeks to complete the onboarding process and to coordinate the internal launch.

How long would our organisation have access to the AltiusLife app?

We work on a minimum 12-month cycle and we optimise as needed. We are continuously curating new content, updating app features and making enhancements based on user feedback to ensure the platform remains engaging and relevant.

Are we able to customise the AltiusLife app with our content and logos?

Absolutely. The AltiusLife app can be tailored to the branding needs of your company and your staff. We are able to add your logo, colour scheme, customised content, internal policies and documents to the app.

Is there an additional cost to customising the AltiusLife app?

The addition of your logo is included in the onboarding costs. Additional customised content, policies and documents incur a per hour development rate, GST exclusive.

What personalised data does AltiusLife collect and where is all our data stored?

To register, the AltiusLife app may require new users to sign up with an email address and password of their choosing or through a Single Sign on (SSO) verification system. The AltiusLife app requires users to enter their full name and a date of birth as well as opt to enter a gender when creating their user Profile. This information is collected to understand who is using AltiusLife as part of our work to deliver an inclusive platform that appeals to everyone. The personal details of users and their privacy are maintained as part of our Privacy Protection policy.

All data is encrypted and deidentified and stored on a secure database.

All user engagement data is aggregated and is kept securely and managed in compliance with our privacy policy. 

Why do we need to provide our date of birth to set up an account on Altius Life?

The App Stores in which AltiusLife sits, deems AltiusLife as an 18+ application, therefore users must enter their DOB to access the app.

How is a new organisation set up on AltiusLife?

AltiusLife will be set up using a unique company registration code. No stand alone or core email address is required to host and run the platform.

Users will register with their company or personal email accounts using the unique company registration code provide or via a secure SSO connection (where this has been selected). Where SSO is not implemented, it is helpful to ensure the organisations internal email system can receive the Altius registration confirmation emails through whitelisting and we have tested this with your IT department prior to the launch.

Is the AltiusLife login system safe and secure?

AltiusLife existing client login operates using modern security standards – providing a single, robust and secure system for its users.

In addition to the standard login option, AltiusLife offers customers the flexibility to connect using their team member logins (known as Single Sign On, or SSO).

Note: SSO would need to be carefully considered by customers in the context of Altius offering further EAP offerings. If mishandled, employees may feel that their employer was tracking use of, or implicating themselves in, the EAP services used. It may create a risk to an employee’s willingness to access EAP services if they feel their employer is “watching”.

What is your Privacy Policy?

In accordance with the Privacy Act 1998, the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), in conjunction with all relevant state and territory privacy legislation, the Altius Group has established standards for the management of personal and health information. The comprehensive Privacy Policy can be found on our website, https://altius-group.com.au/privacy-policy

Can I use the AltiusLife app on my phone?

Yes. AltiusLife is accessible on all smartphones. It is available through the Apple store and Google play.

If you do not have a phone, AltiusLife can be accessed via your computer, tablet or iPad.

Who do I contact if I need help with the app?

We are available to help during regular working hours, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm. You can contact us on 1300 307 912 or by emailing [email protected].

Support Customising Program

Our allied health professionals can guide you in selecting the right package and the best modules for your employees. Through consultations and/or baseline employee health screening and other on-site assessments, we can help you tailor a program to help your employees realise their health potential.

Altius Group offers a range of services to complement your workplace wellbeing program:

Health Checks

Our health screening aims to identify individual and workplace-related health issues or barriers, to provide a foundation for, and measure the impact of, employee wellbeing programs. Carried out by qualified medical and allied health professionals, our tailored screening options include:

• General Health Screening: Blood pressure; BMI; cardiovascular fitness; cholesterol, blood glucose, waist circumference; exercise and sleep habits.

Health checks can also be customised to include:

• Other health metrics: audiometry screening; spirometry and vision screening.
• Lifestyle Screening; stress; alcohol consumption; physical activity; smoking and nutrition.
• Musculoskeletal Screening: Flexibility; strength; physiotherapy-based musculoskeletal screening.
• Psychological Screening: Stress; anxiety and depression.

Wellbeing Surveys

Altius Group provides psychological wellbeing checks to assess the psychological wellbeing of each employee and provide guidance to employers on strategies to improve the level of overall wellness. Our wellbeing checks are run in a very similar way to our counselling sessions - our approach is friendly, caring and focused on providing practical solutions. 

Cultural Climate Surveys

Our organisationally-trained psychologists use evidence based tools and strategies to analyse your workplace culture. Our cultural review process includes multi-level analysis, achieving real outcomes at an individual, team and organisational development level.

Our services include: People and Cultural Surveys; Psychological Risk Reviews and Team Values Alignment.

Onsite Physiotherapy

Our accredited physiotherapists help organisations prevent or manage injury proactively in the workplace through tailored on-site physiotherapy services. Our on-site physiotherapy hubs help to reduce workplace injuries and claims, improve recovery time frames, reduce the risk of re-injury and educate and empower employees to take care of their wellbeing.

Employee Assistant Programs (EAP)

Our registered, clinical psychologists deliver tailored Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) for organisations, enabling them to offer their employees, and eligible family members, access to free confidential and professional psychological support for personal or work-related issues. Our approach is friendly, caring and focused on providing practical solutions.

Pre -Employment Functional Assessments (PEFAs)

Pre-employment Functional Assessments are a valuable part of the recruitment process and help build a strong foundation for a productive and healthy workforce. Our allied health professionals conduct pre-employment assessments for a broad range of occupations and industries, with a strong background in assessing musculoskeletal issues and fitness for work.

Exercise Programs

Our Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) specialise in clinical exercise interventions for clients at risk of developing, or living with, chronic and complex medical conditions and injuries. We provide physical activity education, advice and support on lifestyle modification to prevent injury or assist the restoration of our client’s optimal physical function, health and wellbeing.

Coaching

Professional Coaching:

Through personalised coaching plans, applying key tools and techniques, we aim to improve communication skills and interpersonal style while heightening insight and emotional intelligence. Surveys and psychometric testing guide sessions that develop our clients’ skills and help them to realise their goals and achieve sustained behavioural change in the workplace.

Health Coaching:

Health coaching can be used for improving the general health and wellness of your employees or the specific management of chronic disease. It involves a partnership with employees to guide, empower and motivate them to change their behaviour for better health.

Health coaching uses the principles and practices of health behaviour change to encourage goal setting, active learning and self-management. Health coaching can be delivered face-to-face (individually or in groups) or remotely.

Exercise Coaching:

Exercise coaching provides customised exercise, ongoing motivation and support dedicated to helping the worker achieve their fitness and lifestyle goals. Our Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) specialise in clinical exercise interventions for clients at risk of developing, or living with, chronic and complex medical conditions and injuries. We provide physical activity education, advice and support on lifestyle modification for injury prevention or assist the restoration of our client’s optimal physical function, health and wellbeing. Programs are individualised for all experience and fitness levels. Exercise Coaching can be delivered face-to-face (individually or in groups) or remotely.  

Health and Wellbeing Days

Health and wellbeing days are an opportunity to deliver health education, screening and support to all workers in a fun and interactive way. The aim of the day is to engage staff about ways to look after their health and wellbeing.  

We work with you to deliver optimal engagement over a half day or full day wellbeing program. The day is customized to the employer needs and delivers a program of wellbeing speakers, health stands and activities with allied health professional including psychologists, exercise physiologists and physiotherapists as required.

There is an option to have a morning and afternoon session with a combined lunch to facilitate attendance round other working commitments.  

Mental Health Audit

The impact of poor mental health in the workplace is substantial. Our Psychologists conduct mental health audits to identify areas of growth and excellence when it comes to protecting your team’s mental health.

Based on your organisation’s results, targeted recommendations and best practice reports with guidelines will assist you to proactively manage your employee’s wellbeing, thereby fulfilling your duty of care to your employees.

Psychosocial Risk Audit

Work-related stress arising from psychosocial risks in the workplace has been linked to higher levels of sick leave, employee turnover, and task errors. Our Psychologists develop and implement a Psychosocial risk tool to then develop customised wellbeing strategies based on results from surveys.

We provide and implement recommendations to improve and sustain change and wellbeing into the future. When organisations manage these risks in a proactive way, they reap the benefits in employee engagement and morale, improved performance and productivity and a reduction in worker turn over.

Evidence Based Programs

Our Wellness Programs rely on evidence based research to:

• Identify the key employee and employer issues including risk assessments.
• Build a customised wellbeing offering across all pillars of physical, mental and social health.
• Develop a model of continuous improvement and measurement.
• Deliver the program identified to maximise impact and results.
• Support you to achieve your organisational vision by optimising the health of your people.

What is a wellbeing program?

Wellbeing programs are interventions put in place by employers to improve the lifestyle choices and health of workers as a way of preventing chronic illness and improving productivity and engagement. A wellbeing program may also target organisational and environmental practices to improve the overall health and safety of the workplace.

What should be included in a wellbeing program?

A wellbeing program should be holistic and include the key elements of physical, psychological and social wellbeing. Inclusion need to be across a variety of mediums including health promotion resources, webinars, face to face presentations and participatory activities such as an activity challenge.

How do you promote wellbeing in the workplace?

A successful wellbeing program requires a combination of planning, resource allocation and visible and active leadership involvement.

Wellbeing programs are most successful when an organisation spends time initially on a wellbeing strategy to define the key issues they are looking to address. Resources can include allocation of a person(s) to take ownership of the program and ensure connection across other parts of the business. For example, setting up a committee of wellbeing champions to drive awareness and engagement across the organisation.

Senior leadership involvement is also crucial to a successful program- not just budget sign off, but visible involvement and support.

What are the major health risks impacting employee performance?

According to self-reporting in the 2014-15 ABS National Health Survey, 1 in every 2 Australians (50%) have at least one prominent chronic condition (such as arthritis, asthma, back pain, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes or mental health conditions).

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reported in the Extract of Australia’s Health 2016 the key risk factors of chronic disease. These diseases share common lifestyle risk factors that are largely preventable, such as tobacco smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and excess body weight.

According to results of the Australian Burden of Disease Study, in 2011, a large proportion (31%) of the burden of disease experienced by the population could be prevented by reducing the exposure to modifiable risk factors.

The five risk factors included in the study that caused the most burden included:

• High body mass
• High alcohol use
• Physical inactivity
• High blood pressure
• Tobacco use

Research shows an effective workplace health program, implemented following best practice and covering key areas of physical, mental and social health can support employees to optimise their health and improve healthy lifestyle choices.

Working with you to assess your organisational and individual employee health needs we can develop an evidence based, outcome driven program focusing on behavioural change reducing the impact of lifestyle risk factors.

AltiusLife FAQ

What is the minimum time frame from signing the contract to the launch of AltiusLife?

Ideally, we need a minimum of 4 weeks to complete the onboarding process and to coordinate the internal launch.

How long would our organisation have access to the AltiusLife app?

We work on a minimum 12-month cycle and we optimise as needed. We are continuously curating new content, updating app features and making enhancements based on user feedback to ensure the platform remains engaging and relevant.

Are we able to customise the AltiusLife app with our content and logos?

Absolutely. The AltiusLife app can be tailored to the branding needs of your company and your staff. We are able to add your logo, colour scheme, customised content, internal policies and documents to the app.

Is there an additional cost to customising the AltiusLife app?

The addition of your logo is included in the onboarding costs. Additional customised content, policies and documents incur a per hour development rate, GST exclusive.

What personalised data does AltiusLife collect and where is all our data stored?

To register, the AltiusLife app may require new users to sign up with an email address and password of their choosing or through a Single Sign on (SSO) verification system. The AltiusLife app requires users to enter their full name and a date of birth as well as opt to enter a gender when creating their user Profile. This information is collected to understand who is using AltiusLife as part of our work to deliver an inclusive platform that appeals to everyone. The personal details of users and their privacy are maintained as part of our Privacy Protection policy.

All data is encrypted and deidentified and stored on a secure database.

All user engagement data is aggregated and is kept securely and managed in compliance with our privacy policy. 

Why do we need to provide our date of birth to set up an account on Altius Life?

The App Stores in which AltiusLife sits, deems AltiusLife as an 18+ application, therefore users must enter their DOB to access the app.

How is a new organisation set up on AltiusLife?

AltiusLife will be set up using a unique company registration code. No stand alone or core email address is required to host and run the platform.

Users will register with their company or personal email accounts using the unique company registration code provide or via a secure SSO connection (where this has been selected). Where SSO is not implemented, it is helpful to ensure the organisations internal email system can receive the Altius registration confirmation emails through whitelisting and we have tested this with your IT department prior to the launch.

Is the AltiusLife login system safe and secure?

AltiusLife existing client login operates using modern security standards – providing a single, robust and secure system for its users.

In addition to the standard login option, AltiusLife offers customers the flexibility to connect using their team member logins (known as Single Sign On, or SSO).

Note: SSO would need to be carefully considered by customers in the context of Altius offering further EAP offerings. If mishandled, employees may feel that their employer was tracking use of, or implicating themselves in, the EAP services used. It may create a risk to an employee’s willingness to access EAP services if they feel their employer is “watching”.

What is your Privacy Policy?

In accordance with the Privacy Act 1998, the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), in conjunction with all relevant state and territory privacy legislation, the Altius Group has established standards for the management of personal and health information. The comprehensive Privacy Policy can be found on our website, https://altius-group.com.au/privacy-policy

Can I use the AltiusLife app on my phone?

Yes. AltiusLife is accessible on all smartphones. It is available through the Apple store and Google play.

If you do not have a phone, AltiusLife can be accessed via your computer, tablet or iPad.

Who do I contact if I need help with the app?

We are available to help during regular working hours, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm. You can contact us on 1300 307 912 or by emailing [email protected].