The Health Benefits Of Good Work – Achieving Better Health Outcomes
Presenter(s): Dr Peter Connaughton
This presentation challenges occupational hygienists to join the Health Benefits of Good Work Campaign, as an excellent way to achieve the Conference goals to re-calibrate, re-synergise and re-brand. The HBGW Campaign is the highly successful policy of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
It is leading a paradigm shift to focus on creating good work to improve the health and well-being of workers. It is based on compelling evidence that good work is beneficial to health and wellbeing and that long-term work absence and unemployment have a negative impact.
The campaign brings together over 200 organisations to encourage employers’ continuing support for workers’ health and to advocate for improved policies on work and health. The steering group includes statutory authorities, healthcare organisations, insurers and national employers. HBGW enables you to “reinvigorate your networks, enlist a multidisciplinary approach and to embody a holistic perspective.”
The differences in how both jurisdictions address the policy, regulation and practice of occupational hygiene and seeks to draw conclusions about how this can inform better workplace health outcomes.
The benefits and challenges of a multidisciplinary approach to exposure control with a focus on the role of the Occupational Hygiene professional in risk identification, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of controls.
A look at the various pieces of LEV test kit available and assess which ones will enable us to make a judgement as to weather adequate control being achieved.
Utilizing digital media is at the very heart of the changing approach to communication for delivering evidenced-based information for good decision-making.
