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November 2011

AFOEM HBW Nov 2011 stakeholder meeting - Stakeholders 

Stakeholder Meeting

The Health Benefits of Work - FROM CONSENSUS TO ACTION

The Australasian Faculty of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) held their inaugural Health Benefits of Work: From Consensus to Action stakeholder meeting at the College on 16 November. Over 60 signatories attended the meeting at the RACP Education Centre, with industry leaders addressing the gathered audience about their organisational commitment to the Health Benefits of Work. To see more details of this meeting, please click here.

September 2011

AFOEM The Health Benefits of Work - Stakeholder Update (cover) 

Latest publication: The Health Benefits of Work - Stakeholder Update

Please click the cover on left to see details.

July 2011

AFOEM WorkSafe Victoria - Annual RTW Campaign

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WorkSafe Victoria
Annual RTW Campaign

The Faculty and the Communications team are currently working with WorkSafe Victoria, Transport Accident Commission, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and GPV. WorkSafe Victoria approached AFOEM to include AFOEM's Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work in their annual Return to Work campaign. Deborah Lockart travelled to Melbourne last week to progress this significant body of work, in promoting the Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work. The campaign is a great opportunity for the Faculty to extend our coverage and also connect with GPs.

Michael Klim is working with WorkSafe Victoria in promoting the health benefits of work. I attended the media launch last week.

To watch WorkSafe's latest return to work return to life TV commercial, explaining why returning to work sooner can often be the best medicine, please click here.

AFOEM Dr Gavin Ballenden 

Return to Work Awards
AFOEM nominated

In recent weeks, the Faculty has been nominated for this year's ‘Return to Work (RTW) Awards'. The Awards are run by independent statutory body Q-Comp, and are designed to recognise outstanding achievements in returning employees to work. The nomination was initiated by work undertaken in Queensland by AFOEM Council Member Gavin Ballenden. Along with other occupational physicians, Gavin played a key role in a program targeting GPs, which actively promoted the health benefits of returning injured workers to employment sooner. Gavin, thank you. We hope we win!

Pubilcations

The Health Benefits of Work has been referenced in the following publications:

May 2011

The Listener

The Faculty and College continue to reap the rewards of the Consensus Statement launch. This week we secured the front cover as well as the feature article in New Zealand's Listener. Please click here for the article.

Life Matters

Following an invitation by the ABC, today Robin Chase participated in an on air discussion with the ABC National radio program Life Matters. The focus of the discussion: the health benefits of work. To listen to this discussion, please click here. To read the media release about this discussion, please click here.
 
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