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Staff Profile: James Morris

James with his lovely wife Gabi When and how did you start working for Ethos? After graduating, I ...

Splitting time between home and the office?

Question What do a multi-site law firm, a local council with 1000 employees, a financial services business, the ...

Online Fatigue Management Platform

Our new FatigueTech platform is the easiest way to implement, monitor and manage a workplace fatigue risk management ...

Hunter Safety Award Winner

We are very proud to be the Hunter Safety Award winner of the Best WHS Training Course for ...

Staff Profile: Matt Cooper

When and how did you start working for Ethos? It was more of a transition to Ethos Health ...

“My industry, organisation or department doesn’t need to do pre-employment screening”

You are quite possibly correct! You might have a division, or indeed a whole workforce, of roles with ...

MoveSAFE Injury Prevention Framework

Reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace is challenging – as we all know, there’s a ...

Healthy Families for Life and HCF

You might not be aware, but Ethos Health has worked with the HCF for a few years now ...

Why & How to conduct a Fatigue Risk Assessment ?

Many workers are exposed to a variety of fatigue hazards such as extended work hours, shift work, high ...

Would you like to create a plan to transform the Health and Wellbeing of your Workforce?

Implementing health and wellbeing programs can be challenging but there is potential for huge benefit. As you know, ...

Home Ergonomics – Planning a ‘New Normal’ in your Organisation? This will help

It's broadly accepted that after the pandemic, we're likely to see many people and organisations continue to embrace ...

Managing heat stress risk – is your organisation doing enough?

On January 2nd 1960, Oodnadatta airport in South Australia registered a daytime temperature of 50.7oC degrees Celsius, the ...
Onsite physiotherapy - Newcastle & Hunter Region

Ethos Health establish another onsite clinic in the Hunter Valley

Ethos Health are happy to announce we are partnering with Mangoola Coal to provide regular onsite physiotherapy and ...
Staff profile Karen Barnett

Staff profile: Karen Barnett

When and how did you start working for Ethos Health? After returning to Australia from living overseas for ...

Heat stress and heat-related illness

The last month has seen unprecedented hot weather across Australia, which has raised the risk of heat-related illness. ...

Top 5 Health and Wellbeing Workshops for your Organisation

1. Rethink the Sugary Drinks 45 minutes, Onsite Sugar sweetened beverages are contributing the most added sugar to ...

Active Workstation Ergonomics – What are the Benefits?

One of the biggest health issues in Western cultures in recent times is sedentary behaviour (costs associated with ...

Making significant differences to health of employees

Our CEO Dr Trent Watson presented on a panel at Newcastle Business Club event on Tuesday 7 May ...

Workplace Health = Workplace Wealth

Organisations are increasingly recognising that managing the health and safety of their workforce is good business. Employees spend ...

Winners of the HSEC Conference Health Excellence Award

Ethos Health congratulates Thiess Mt Owen for winning the New South Wales Mineral Council's (NSWMC) coveted Health Excellence ...

Linking Body Fat and Musculoskeletal Pain

The association between body fat percentage and pain is significant and complex. It may be a more useful ...

Workplace Health Programs: Australian research leading a global movement

There is much discussion about the potential benefits of workplace health programs to individuals and the employer. It ...

ReShape your organisation – health and wellness strategy workshop

Implementing a health and wellness strategy can be challenging but there is potential for huge benefit. As you ...

RESHAPE: A new frontier in obesity management in NSW mining

The 2017 NSW Mining Health, Safety, Environment and Community conference saw the launch of an industry health and ...

Ethos Health’s highlights from the 2017 Mining Conference

mining_conference_2017.png The 2017 NSW Minerals Council Health, Safety, Environment and Community Conference took place at Crowne Plaza Hunter ...

InBody Scan

What is InBody? InBody Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) Technology is a standardised approach to analysing body composition. BIA ...

Driver Fatigue: Is it acceptable to drive when you are tired?

Fatigue has been reported to be four times more likely than drugs or alcohol to affect an individual’s ...

Goodbye to a founder of Ethos Health

screenshot-www.ethoshealth.com.au-2017-11-29-10-21-46.png It’s not often we reserve a newsletter space for a staff member who is leaving (fortunately, we ...

CEO Trent Watson: The year in review

Ethos Health year in review: This past year has been an exciting one for us, one that feels ...

Safe Work Workers’ Compensation latest statistics – Injury trends

Safe Work Australia has recently published their latest report on Australian Workers' Compensation statistics, for the 2015-16 period. ...

Fatigue Risk Management

Online Fatigue Management Platform

Our new FatigueTech platform is the easiest way to implement, monitor and manage a workplace fatigue risk management ...

Why & How to conduct a Fatigue Risk Assessment ?

Many workers are exposed to a variety of fatigue hazards such as extended work hours, shift work, high ...

What does a contemporary Fatigue Risk Management System look like?

At what level of fatigue would you want the workforce to stop and take action?Fatigue risk management system ...

Driver Fatigue: Is it acceptable to drive when you are tired?

Fatigue has been reported to be four times more likely than drugs or alcohol to affect an individual’s ...

Sleep disorders in the workforce

The cost of poor sleep Sleep is a restorative function of the body, and inadequate quality or quantity ...

Dr Trent Watson as a caricature.

drawing_of_trent.png Whilst conducting fatigue awareness training in Queensland one attendee showed his appreciation by handing Trent a quick ...

Top 10 Healthy Sleeping Tips

Like oxygen, water and food; sleep is essential for life, as well as for health and wellbeing. The ...
Fatigued Coal Mine Worker

Webinar – How to Manage Fatigue in the Resources Industry?

Peter Standish on behalf of AUSIMM will be conducting a webinar with our very own Trent Watson and ...

Napping at Work…good fatigue strategy or dismissable offence?

Whilst working alongside many shift working organisations, Dr Trent Watson has had an increasing number of enquiries about ...

How to create a fatigue risk management system and resistant culture?

The team at Ethos Health have had the pleasure of being part of Kalari’s national “Stop for Safety ...
Fatigued Coal Mine Worker

A lack of sleep isn’t the only reason we get fatigued

fatigue-email.png Sleep and Fatigue Whilst it is acknowledged that sleep is a significant risk factor, it is not ...

Injury Prevention & Management

Neck pain

How common is neck pain? Research estimates between 25% and 70% of us will experience neck pain at ...

Meet Jess our new physiotherapist

New Physio Jess Describe your role in one sentence. In the clinic, I get the opportunity to empower ...

What are soft tissue injuries?

Think strains and sprains to our muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Common soft tissue injuries include hamstring tears, calf ...

Thoracic spine (middle back) mobility and pain

The thoracic spine – or ‘middle back’ – is the forgotten middle sibling between the lower back (lumbar ...

Hamstring Strain

What are they? The hamstrings are a group of 3 muscles at the back of your thigh. A ...

Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease

What is Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease? Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease is a common cause of knee pain in adolescents. Rather than a ...

Splitting time between home and the office?

Question What do a multi-site law firm, a local council with 1000 employees, a financial services business, the ...

MoveSAFE Injury Prevention Framework

Reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace is challenging – as we all know, there’s a ...

Getting Comfortable on the Bike 101

with Dan Lovegrove, Ethos Health physio and cycling nut Physiotherapist Dan Lovegrove is our resident cycling guru - ...
Onsite physiotherapy - Newcastle & Hunter Region

Ethos Health establish another onsite clinic in the Hunter Valley

Ethos Health are happy to announce we are partnering with Mangoola Coal to provide regular onsite physiotherapy and ...

Linking Body Fat and Musculoskeletal Pain

The association between body fat percentage and pain is significant and complex. It may be a more useful ...

Active Workstation Ergonomics – What are the Benefits?

One of the biggest health issues in Western cultures in recent times is sedentary behaviour (costs associated with ...

How serious is getting manual handling right?

As a health and safety professional, what do you class as a manual task related injury? Yes, we ...

Safe Work Workers’ Compensation latest statistics – Injury trends

Safe Work Australia has recently published their latest report on Australian Workers' Compensation statistics, for the 2015-16 period. ...

Home office ergonomics and design

Working from home? Can good home office ergonomics and good design co-exist? He might not have the public ...

$585,000 paid to a worker due to poor manual handling instructions

Workplace health and safety is a shared responsibility; per the WHS Act, employers have a duty to identify, ...

Human behaviours increasing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries

Human beings are creatures of habit. Most activities we perform during our working days are undertaken subconsciously or ...

Is too much sitting killing you?

Stand-up-for-your-health_New.jpg How many hours do you sit each day? Being seated for long periods is emerging as one ...

Dance Physiotherapy and Injury Prevention

ballerina_shutterstock_120424846_New.jpg You probably aren’t surprised to hear Dancers suffer foot injuries much more frequently than people in almost ...

Pain Relief and Medications

Paracetamol In April of this year the Federal Health Minister announced that paracetamol, antacids, aspirin and other basic ...

Health & Wellbeing

Neck pain

How common is neck pain? Research estimates between 25% and 70% of us will experience neck pain at ...

What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and how can a dietitian help?

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is characterised by gastrointestinal symptoms and is only diagnosed after the exclusion of other ...

Meet Jess our new physiotherapist

New Physio Jess Describe your role in one sentence. In the clinic, I get the opportunity to empower ...

Ethos Health C-fit classes

Did you know the right prescription of exercise supports better treatment outcomes and fewer side effects during treatment ...

What you need to know about coffee and Health

Coffee. Morning Brown. Many of us love it. Some of us fear it. It’s one of the mostly ...

The impacts of poor body image and how a dietitian can help

Dietitians Jane (left) and Scarlett (right) What is body image? Body image is a combination of the thoughts ...

What are soft tissue injuries?

Think strains and sprains to our muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Common soft tissue injuries include hamstring tears, calf ...

Meet James our new physiotherapist

Describe your role in one sentence. I actually have two distinct roles: provide workplace teams with the skills ...

Iron, and why it’s so important

What is iron Iron is a mineral that is essential for many bodily processes including immune function and ...

Thoracic spine (middle back) mobility and pain

The thoracic spine – or ‘middle back’ – is the forgotten middle sibling between the lower back (lumbar ...

Build your own Poke Bowl

Need a simple meal idea? Then look no further, you've got to try building your own poke bowl. ...

PCOS and Nutrition

What is PCOS? Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition affecting women’s reproductive hormones, ovaries and the process ...

Doing Dry July or wanting to reduce your intake of alcohol?

Dry July might be your kick start to reducing your overall intake of alcohol, to become ahealthier you, ...

Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease

What is Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease? Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease is a common cause of knee pain in adolescents. Rather than a ...

Sports Nutrition: Improving your performance

Good nutrition can significantly improve sporting performance, just as poor nutrition can hinder it. A sports nutrition plan ...

Family-style meals

Are family-style serves the secret to calmer mealtimes? Feeding children can be challenging at the best of times ...

What is aerobic fitness and how do I test it?

What exactly is aerobic fitness?Why is it important?How much is enough?How fit am I? What is aerobic fitness? ...

Food and mood, how does diet impact our mental health?

Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health conditions worldwide, and a major contributor to the global ...
Nutrition and covid

How to optimise your nutrition during COVID

We have all been affected by covid in some way which has in turn affected our nutrition, whether ...

The Truth About Protein Supplements

Introduction Protein supplements were once confined to the bodybuilding world but now fill the shelves in supermarkets, health ...

“My industry, organisation or department doesn’t need to do pre-employment screening”

You are quite possibly correct! You might have a division, or indeed a whole workforce, of roles with ...

Do I need vitamins and supplements to be healthy?

There’s a supplement out there for just about every aspect of health you can imagine… for inflammation, weight ...

Healthy Families for Life and HCF

You might not be aware, but Ethos Health has worked with the HCF for a few years now ...

Would you like to create a plan to transform the Health and Wellbeing of your Workforce?

Implementing health and wellbeing programs can be challenging but there is potential for huge benefit. As you know, ...

Home Ergonomics – Planning a ‘New Normal’ in your Organisation? This will help

It's broadly accepted that after the pandemic, we're likely to see many people and organisations continue to embrace ...

Managing heat stress risk – is your organisation doing enough?

On January 2nd 1960, Oodnadatta airport in South Australia registered a daytime temperature of 50.7oC degrees Celsius, the ...

Winners of the HSEC Conference Health Excellence Award

Ethos Health congratulates Thiess Mt Owen for winning the New South Wales Mineral Council's (NSWMC) coveted Health Excellence ...

Linking Body Fat and Musculoskeletal Pain

The association between body fat percentage and pain is significant and complex. It may be a more useful ...

Workplace Health Programs: Australian research leading a global movement

There is much discussion about the potential benefits of workplace health programs to individuals and the employer. It ...

ReShape your organisation – health and wellness strategy workshop

Implementing a health and wellness strategy can be challenging but there is potential for huge benefit. As you ...