Not a particularly good result. 30% of people are experiencing pain and discomfort. In a corporate setting we'd recommend that those scoring less the 6 need to be required attend a prehab/rehab program, for their own benefit and that of the organisation.		20% of people were 15Kg or more overweight.
	Leg strength was, generally speaking good.		A good score.
	With a couple of exceptions this is a good result.		20% of people couldn't touch their toes. Lower back pain goes with poor hamstring flexibility.
	This is a good result.		Generally speaking, shoulder function was good.
Its always the case, few people have a regular strength and flexibility program. The group needs to put in train a regular and systematic training program, on site, that includes   1.  specialist prehab and rehab sessions for those at serious risk and those already dysfunctional and on compo   2.  daily strength and flexibility sessions in the workplace for everyone.
Average score: 67. This is pretty good compared with most groups we survey. This graph show why people are experiencing pain. 65% of people are not in doing the things they need to do to keep their musculo-skeletal system in good shape. There is a strong case of the group to implement an obligatory strength and flexibility program for those who scored less than 60 in this profile.

We recommend the Organisation take seriously and monitor carefully the incidence of musculo-skeletal dysfunction and put in place an organisation-wide strategy to improve strength, flexibility and mobility. By far and away a high proportion of people do not have a strength and flexibility program. As a result they are getting weaker and tighter by the week, thereby exposing themselves and the organisation to risk.

When push comes to shove and people become dysfunctional, it will be the Organisation that ends up paying the high cost of an avoidable musculo-skeletal complaint. In our opinion musculo-skeletal dysfunction caused by lack of a regular and systematic strength and flexibility program cannot be classified as an injury.

Responsibility for musculo-skeletal dysfunction needs to be sheeted home to individual employees, though it’s unlikely to happen without the establishment of a culture within the Organisation that supports, values and understands strength and flexibility. We recommend a range of strength and flexibility classes that are readily available Australia-wide: -

The Organisation would place itself in the forefront of OH&S practice if it took the musculo-skeletal risk seriously and moved heaven and earth to educate all staff about this risk and encourage them to take part in a regular strength and flexibility program.

Maybe The Organisation and its worker's compensation insurer could invest in a pilot program to increase staff strength and flexibility! The lack of strength and flexibility training coupled with poor abdominal strength, upper body strength, flexibility and shoulder function is a cause for concern and needs the attention of individual staff and managers.

Recommendation

We strongly recommend that the people who are in current poor musculo-skeletal condition, and who lack abdominal strength, upper body strength, flexibility, shoulder function and functional mobility, in particular those who scored less than 50 on the profile, be obligated to attend regular, in-house strength and flexibility classes. The pressure on the organisation's workers' compensation costs is such that to do otherwise would, in our opinion be to abrogate a responsibility for the prudent management of the organisation's finances.

Diet profile

The diet profile is designed to assist participants to check out whether they are eating wisely and also one which has appropriate amounts of carbohydrate, protein and fat. It also looks at various eating habits, eg eating too much, eating for comfort ...

•      Closeness to ideal weight?

•      Do you eat a decent breakfast?

•      Do you eat a high fat diet?

•      Do you eat a high starch diet?

•      Do you eat from the top of the Diet Hourglass?

•      How much water do you during each day?

•      Do you supplement your diet with essential micro-nutrients – vitamins,

        minerals, essential fats (omega 3) and glyco-proteins - and

        nutraceuticals - ginko, aloe vera, Echinacea ...?

•      Do you eat too much?

•      Are you ruled by your addictions to fat, sugar and starch?

•      Does the back end of your system work like a charm?

We use the Hourglass Diet as out eating model.

The 'pass mark' for each parameter is 7/10.

Low scores are usually symptomatic of high fat, high starch, low fibre diets. The results: - people become over fat and constipated.

A good score is a high score. A poor score is a low score.

	20% of people were 15Kg or more overweight, but most people in good shape.		Too many people filling themselves up on flour and sugar at breakfast time. This is due to the Kellogification of our diets. The 'fat police' have just about stripped a decent cooked breakfast out of existence.
	If you're over weight you've either got a fat guts ...		or a starch guts, or a sugar guts or a beer guts.
	The nature of our culture is that it's too easy to eat junk food.		A few people are not drinking enough water. We're too affluent - we can afford to drink coffee, fruit juice, flavoured milk and carbonated drinks to slake our thirst; every thing but water. 'Water, water every where ...' but no-one wants to drink it!
	Unless you eat the perfect diet, there is a good case for supplementing one's diet. Our food lacks vitamins minerals and essential fats.		Not only do I fail to eat from the top of the Hourglass, I also eat too much. It's hard to satisfy the inner hunger by eating.
	Over-all, pretty good. There's an epidemic of food addiction, particularly to chocolate, cola drinks, cake, biscuits, ice-cream ...		Back end function depends on eating less fat, flour and sugar and more fruit, vegetables and fibre. Psyllium husk works a treat.
Patchy. Total score 64. An average sort of a score. It's too easy to eat a high energy dense diet of manufactured food - particularly foods containing large amounts of fat, flour and sugar - food that comes in packets, tins, cans, bottles, cardboard boxes and plastic bags. This is a group that needs to design strategies to get more fruit, vegetables and water down their throat.

Australia is in a grip of an obesity and body system dysfunction epidemic generated by too much of the wrong food on the one hand, and too little of the right food on the other. It is my opinion that diets high in refined, cereal-based carbohydrates and sugar (the garbohydrates) are the suspects. Too few people seem to be aware that their level of body fat is affected by the amount of flour and sugar they take in each day. The high starch diet has replaced the high fat diet, with the same consequences. The garbohydrate diet stimulates insulin production which leads to fat gain, and all manner of metabolic dysfunctions.

Many people are unaware that they may be allergic or intolerant of some foods, particularly wheat flour, milk, deadly nightshades, chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, preservatives ...

Most people have a flour and sugar breakfast, attributed to the kelloggification of the Australian diet. You don't eat biscuits for lunch and dinner so why are you eating them for breakfast? The breakfast eating behaviour of Australians is dreadful. Few people have fruit. Even fewer have vegetables, or adequate protein and fat.

Few people take vitamin and mineral supplements. I believe there are good reasons to do so.

By their own recognition a small number of people said they over-ate and were ruled by their addictions to junk food.

The operation of the back end of the system was only fair – low scores being reflective of a diet that lacks sufficient fibre.

Chemical intake profile

The chemical profile focuses principally on the mix of culturally acceptable stimulants and depressants.

•      Do you smoke?

•      How many alcoholic drinks do you have a week?

•      How much caffeine do you drink each day?

•      Do you persistently feed a salt tooth?

•      Reliance on anti-inflammatory tablets?

•      Reliance on headache and pain-killing tablets?

•      Reliance on sleeping tablets?

•      Reliance on anti-depressant medication?

•      Reliance on blood pressure medication?

•      Reliance on diabetes medication?

A good score on this profile would be well over 80.

A good score is a high score. A poor score is a low score.

	16 people smoked. It's a dreadful result!		Too many people are drinking too much. The organisation needs to show some leadership in this respect.
	Less is good.		Time to stop putting salt over food.
			Headaches are not caused by a lack of Panadol!
	This is a very good score. No-one was on sleeping medication. Poor sleep is not caused by a lack of Stilnox! The first causality of anxiety is poor sleep. Find out the cause of the problem. Exercise more, drink less.		There is an epidemic of depression in our community. It's not caused by a lack of Zoloft! This is a good result.
	Elevated blood pressure is another indication of metabolic dysfunction. 2 people are on blood pressure medication.		2 people were on diabetes medication, 1 person for type 1. Diabetes, just another symptom of metabolic dysfunction. In general it's a fitness problem, not a medical problem and you can't fix a fitness problem with a medical solution.
Average score: 79. Compared with other groups, this is a good result.

It is usually the case that fit and healthy people don’t drink to any great degree. In fact they only have one or two drinks per week.

However, we’ve well and truly entered the junk medical age when the medical priesthood is encouraging their clients to wash down an Aspro each day with a couple of glasses of claret, all in the name of good health! The people we see who are fittest and healthiest also have very low, or zero intakes of alcohol and coffee.

Stress Risk Profile

Participants completed a simple stress and relaxation profile designed to assist them in making an assessment of how they were affected by stress. It is based on the habits of unstressed people.

If you do what unstressed people do you are less at risk of becoming stressed. I’m yet to see someone who said they were highly stressed or depressed who got a high score on this profile. A good score is over 70.

•      How would you rate your current stress level

•      Do you get a good night’s sleep?

•      Do you take your holidays?

•      Are you keeping yourself fit and healthy?

•      Is there balance in your life?

•      Do you take time off at lunch time?

•      How many hours a week do you work?

•      Are you good at giving back to your Self?

•      Do you meditate?

•      Are you happy with your family (and romantic) life?

The matter of stress always needs to be addressed by organisations as part of a personal development thrust, and aimed at all staff. If stress management type programs are to be conducted, all staff need to be involved, otherwise those at most risk and those who are currently most stressed (and too wrapped up in their own busyness) will not attend.

For those who spend long hours at work, I often wonder whether the behaviour is externally or internally driven. I suspect the latter. No body on their death bed ever said 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

A few people are struggling with their family life. This is another fertile  area for personal development and counselling programs. It's hard to concentrate at work when your home life is in turmoil

SCORING GUIDELINES

Excellent, scoring 8 or more

Good, scoring 7 or more

Fair, scoring 5 or 6           

Poor, scoring less than 5

‘Pass mark’ on all parameters 7/10. 

A good score is a high score. A poor score is a low score.

	This is fair result.		With a couple of exceptions this is a good result. The first casualty of anxiety and low levels of fitness is sleep. Find out the cause of the problem. Exercise more, drink less.
	A poor result. Paul Pearsal in his book Superimmunity' said you need a 21 day away from home holiday every year.		Not a good result. Too many people are not keeping themselves in the shape they'd like to be in - and which they need to be in. The secret to good health and lower stress levels is keeping oneself fit.
	This is not a particularly good result.		A fair result. People need to take time off to switch off and get outside in the fresh air.
	This is a fair result. No one on their death bed ever said 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.' The people working the longest hours are women with young children who have a shift before work, a shift at work, a shift after work and the graveyard shift as well.		Too many people are too busy to look after and nurture their Self.
	Very few people meditate. The reasons to do so are compelling.		On the whole, family life satisfaction is good for most people, but not for some.
Average score: 61. This is an average sort of a score.  People could do more to look after their Self. I recommend that people scoring less that 50 spend time with a counsellor or life coach, or go to a personal development weekend to get themselves centred and grounded on looking after their Self - start doing the things unstressed people do to avoid becoming stressed.

Career Satisfaction Profile

The parameters in the profile relate to a mix of factors influences by the participant, management and their colleagues.

• How close are you to doing the job you’d really like to be doing?

• Are you in the right job for now?

• Is work giving you life or sucking life out of you?

• Are you focused on your career options?

• Do you get good feedback from your manager?

• Do you receive an appropriate financial reward?

• Do you feel you and your work are valued and appreciated?

• Do you work for an organisation that cares about people?

• Do you enjoy the company of the people you work with?

• What’s the level of morale like in your work group?

Normally, when results on the overall career profile are less than 70/100, people agree that they’re not in the right job. Certainly those scoring less than 60 have sufficient issues relating to career management as to seriously consider going somewhere else.

SCORING GUIDELINES

Excellent, scoring 8 or more

Good, scoring 7 or more

Fair, scoring 5 or 6           

Poor, scoring less than 5

‘Pass mark’ on all parameters 7/10. 

A good score is a high score. A poor score is a low score.

	On balance this is a good result. 2 people don't know what they want to do when they grow up!		This is a very good result.
	A fair result. Work is probably about as stressful as you want it to be. Walk away. Make appointments for your Self that allow you to get on with your work unhindered by interruptions.		As for those who scored 7/10 it didn't matter. For those who scored less than 7/10 it does matter.
	With a couple of exceptions, this is a good result.		With several exceptions, these people are pretty satisfied with what they sell themselves for. If you're not happy, you're selling yourself short.
	This is a good result.		Sure do. The aim is to have all staff recording a score of 7 or more. The person scoring 1 appears to be the odd one out.
	This is a fantastic result. People like working with each other. We rarely see scores like this.		With a couple of exceptions, morale is very good. It's generally the case that our morale is good when my morale is good. The exceptions need to be dealt with.
Average score: 82. This is an absolutely fantastic result. Rarely do we see scores as good as this. These people love their jobs and are well managed.

The Buddha and Confucius both said 'Find the job you'd love to do and you won't have to do another days work in your life.'