Southern Cross Protection has recently started a health and well-being program for employees called Guard Your Health. A facility to promote fitness, nutritional acumen, and to help end those bad habits that make us metabolically fragile. It’s a simple plan of voluntary enlistment aided by corporate caring. Our employees join up and for twelve weeks we give them the tools and counselling to become fit and healthy.
It begins with a health check, the results of which are confidential. (Unless you’ve done extraordinarily well. In which case, shout the results from the rooftops.) This is used as the logical starting point for your journey to enhanced fitness. One example of the activities involved in the program was our Tour D’ Oz exercise bike ride, in which cash prizes were given to the individuals and branches who met their kilometres-ridden targets first.
Congratulations to our South Australian Tonsley Park branch who won the tour. They receive $500 for their efforts. Michael Hayden from Tonsley Park came in early and stayed back late to ride 168 kilometres and win the Yellow Jersey and the $200 individual prize. Michael is now commonly known as “The Croweater Cadel”. You look good in yellow, Michael. Well done. Karanvir Singh from the Malaga branch in Perth rode a close second with 155 kilometres. He also did a great job and will be sent out $100.
Guard Your Health, we have to admit, is not an entirely altruistic venture on our part. We see a massive pay-off for Southern Cross Protection. It works like this: gradually, with our help, our people become fitter, and more physically healthy. The links between metabolism and psychology are irrefutable, so this invariably leads to better mental health, that is, they enter a good headspace, something approaching happiness or contentment. Happy people are more efficient, productive, easier to get along with, take less sick days and are injured less. Our clients are then dealing with a more proficient, agreeable person. And this makes them happier.
Guarding your health guards ours. We’re in this together.
