WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

We create and deliver solutions to optimise the health & safety of people and organisations.

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Projects

Fatigue Risk Management System

Manage the risk of workforce fatigue with contemporary methods.

Injury Prevention & Management

Manage manual handling practices to reduce musculoskeletal injuries.

Workplace Health & Wellbeing

Develop and implement health and wellbeing initiatives in your workforce.

Pre-employment & Health Screening

72 hour turnaround from referral to report in the Newcastle and Hunter Region.

Delivering health & safety solutions since 2009

Our Team

What we can provide your workplace.

Consultancy

Comprehensive risk-based approach which complies with legislative responsibilities.

Training

Access a wide range of high quality training delivered by experts in their field.

Programs

Implement transformational programs that can support your health and safety objectives.

Technology

Monitor and verify your health and safety initiatives through technology.

Industries we work in...

Mining

Experience

We support a variety of surface and underground mining operations across difference commodities.

Logistics

Experience

We can provide experience and advise across different jurisdictions across Australia.

Utilities

Experience

Provide practical advice and tools that supports operational needs for utility companies.

Government

Experience

With 10 years experience providing consultative services for local government organisations.

Infrastructure

Experience

Create systems and process that enable infrastructure projects to run smoothly

Companies we work with...

HOW WE WORK

Our Approach

Our systems based thinking makes sense of a complex systems, by exploring the relationships, boundaries and perspectives in a system. Ethos Health have developed specific tools, training and methods to better understand your system and the complex problems within it.

Our Team

Dr. Trent Watson

CEO, Fatigue Consultant, Dietitian

Trent is CEO of Ethos Health, and an Accredited Dietitian. Trent also specialises in Fatigue Management and using the latest in technology works with workplaces to put in place strategies to manage, and reduce the risk of fatigue incident and accident in Australia.

Trent also consults from our Lake Macquarie Practice, is a media spokesperson with the Dietitians Association of Australia and Chairman of the Hunter Medicare Local.

Qualifications

PhD, BHSc (N&D), Dip WHS, Cert IV TAE

Matt Cooper

Health & Safety Consultant

Combining a BSc Degree in Sport Performance and Postgraduate Certificate in Organisational Safety and Human Factors provides Matt with a unique background in how human factors influence all aspects to workplace performance and safety.

Matt’s knowledge also extends to the physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, sociology and psychology areas of performance. As a Trainer and Assessor Matt joined the Ethos Health team 5 years ago, and his ever-widening content knowledge and engaging delivery style has seen him maintain a net approval score greater than eight for his delivery across fatigue and injury prevention programs.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), GradCert, Dip WHS, Cert IV TAE

Dr. Jane Watson

Workplace Health Researcher

Jane's niche experience is in infant and child nutrition, she is passionate about working with families to promote healthy eating habits. She continues to work in nutrition research at the University of Newcastle and has undertaken additional study in child nutrition as well as being an accredited practitioner for the Triple P parenting program.

Qualifications

PhD BHSc (N&D), Cert IV TAE

James Morris

Workplace Health Consultant

James is an experienced dietitian having worked in a number of medical centres and private practices across NSW. Having moved to Newcastle his clinical focus is general dietetics, including weight management, heart disease, diabetes, food allergies and intolerances, and sports nutrition. James also works as a consultant to a number of local organisations, helping run a range of health and wellbeing programs.

Qualifications

Bach Nutrition & Dietetics (Hons)

Dan Lovegrove

Industrial Physiotherapist

Dan is a University of Newcastle graduate with several years private practice experience. His physio interests are wide-ranging with specialised knowledge around cycling and soccer.

Dan works with local soccer clubs in the NPL and New FM league and often covers teams for Northern NSW at nationals’ tournaments.

Qualifications

BPhty(Hons)

Benn West

Exercise Physiologist / Trainer

Benn has more than 10 years’ experience as an Exercise Physiologist. Benn is able to provide support for clients with conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, arthritis, pulmonary disease, musculoskeletal injuries and more.

Qualifications

BSc(HM), Cert IV TAE

Karent Barnett - Newcastle Physiotherapist

Karen Barnett

Physiotherapist / Trainer

Karen is an experienced musculo-skeletal physiotherapist who has been working at Ethos Health since the inception in 2009. Karen is currently delivering our Health Screening Services and also enjoys going onsite providing training and implementation of occupational health initiatives and education around injury prevention.

Qualifications

BAppSc.(Physio), Cert IV TAE

Nick Davies

Industrial Physiotherapist

Nick is a Newcastle University graduate, who worked in various private practice and hospital settings in Australia and the UK prior to joining Ethos Health in 2018., Nick has a special interest in the treatment and prevention of work-related injuries and provides consulting services to a range of organisations while working in various on-site clinics throughout the Hunter.

Qualifications

BAppSc.(Physio)

Connor Eyers

Industrial Physiotherapist

Connor graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2014 and has been working with Ethos Health ever since. He has works across both Clinic and as an Onsite Physio for a number of our corporate clients. Connor also works with a number of local and representative sports teams and enjoys treating all types of injuries and painful conditions, especially the shoulder.

Qualifications:

BPhty(Hons)

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Blog

Staff Profile: James Morris

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

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 Australian operations ...

Online Fatigue Management Platform

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

Hunter Safety Award Winner

We are very proud to be the winner of the Best WHS Training Course for the 2021 Hunter Safety Awards. ...

Staff Profile: Matt Cooper

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

“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 very low ...

MoveSAFE Injury prevention framework

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

Healthy Families for Life & HCF

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

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 stress environments, ...

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, the health ...

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 more flexible ...

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 highest recorded ...

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 health services. ...

Staff profile: Karen Barnett

When and how did you start working for Ethos Health? After returning to Australia from living overseas for 5 years, ...

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. Heat stress and heat-related illness can ...

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 Australians’ diet ...

Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Health Program Case Study

If you would like to discuss and develop a health and well-being strategy for your organisation please contact us.

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 sedentary behaviour), ...

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 2019 attended ...

Workplace Health = Workplace Wealth

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

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 Award with ...

Linking Body Fat and Musculoskeletal Pain

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

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 has been ...

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 know, the ...

RESHAPE: A new frontier in obesity management in NSW mining.

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

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 Valley in ...

InBody Scan

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

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 ability to ...

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 have had ...

Looking under the bonnet at head office.

kate-email.png Ensuring that Ethos Health provide the best health and safety solutions for our clients’ (such as, AusGrid, Glencore, Kalari, ...

CEO Trent Watson: The year in review

trent_mining_conference.JPG This past year has been an exciting one for us, one that feels like a turning point from ...

Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Event – Hunter Business Chamber

trent-nswmining-email.png Poor health impacts on the workplace through reduced workforce participation, reduced performance, reduced productivity and greater absenteeism. Dr Trent ...

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. The report ...

Meet the workplace consulting team!

manual_handling.png With the new year we have a few new faces, so it seems a good time to introduce our ...

Port of Newcastle employees lose 106kgs in 6 weeks

rapid-wight-loss-challenge-port-newcastle.JPG Health and wellbeing challenge As Newcastle is the largest coal exporting harbour in the world it requires an elite ...

CEO Trent Watsons year in review

trent-review-2016.png Well Christmas is nearly here and another year has gone. This time of the year brings with it the ...

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 Ethos ...

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 know that ...

A snapshot from our CEO – 6 months in review

trent__meeting_client.png Blink! The first six months of 2017 has gone in a flash. Well, this is an attempt to stop, ...

Workplace Physio Urgently Required

wps-physio-wanted.png Do you want more from your physiotherapy career? The flexibility to fit in time for yourself and your family ...

Staff profile – Nick Davies

nick_dogs.png When and how did you start working for Ethos? In late 2016, my brother met Dan O’Neill (Ethos ...

Sleep disorders in the workforce

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

Home office ergonomics and design

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

RESHAPE Workshop: Summary Report

reshape_logo_1.png On March 21, the RESHAPE workshop was held with representatives from seven organisations from a range of industries, including ...

$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, eliminate or ...

How can organisations get the most out of staff health assessments

health_check_blog.png We’ve had lots of enquiries this year for our employee and executive health assessments, so it’s a good time ...

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 caricature at ...

Top 10 Healthy Sleeping Tips

koala_blog.png Like oxygen, water and food; sleep is essential for life, as well as for health and wellbeing. The following ...

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 will be ...

Human behaviours increasing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries

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

Ethos Health Workplace Consultant raised over $7,300 for amputee victim.

pablo(1).png Our Fatigue and Manual Handling consultant Matt Cooper, raised over $7,300 for a friend who had both his arms ...

Napping at Work…good fatigue strategy or dismissable offence?

napping-blog.png Whilst working alongside many shift working organisations, Dr Trent Watson has had an increasing number of enquiries about the ...

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 Days” across ...

Ethos Health at HPMI conference

news-image.png Ethos Health were a silver sponsor at the annual Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute. A well respected and attended conference ...

NSW Health share recognises Ethos Health

Ethos Health are providing a customised Manual Handling Training program to Linen and Distribution staff of NSW Health Share. Part ...

If Santa lost weight!

Santa.png If Santa lost 5-10 kilograms, he would: improve blood glucose control, blood pressure and cholesterol levels enhance lung function ...

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 of the ...

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 the only ...

Healthy Workers = happy and productive workers

An article in the Hunter Business Review says healthy employees are three times more productive than their colleagues, take less ...

Obese workers take 88 per cent more sick leave

The link between work absences and obesity is well established, further supported by a recent German study that has proven ...

The Truth about Sports Drinks

Sport-drinks.png The development of sports drinks and the focus on hydration can be traced back to the boom in road ...

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 any other ...

Tradie Health Month

Tradies_New.jpg Did you know 33% of males in the construction industry have high blood pressure, and 45% are at high ...

Hunter Innovation Forum 15-17 May

Ethos Health are proudly participating in the Hunter Innovation Forum with Mark Cameron and Dr Jane Watson presenting on Friday ...

The Key Ingredients for Happiness

Happiness is a fundamental human goal. On the 20 March it was International Happiness Day. The history The initiative to ...

Media Release Healthy Weight Week 2014

17-23 February 2014 is Healthy Weight Week. This years theme is healthy cooking. Read our media release and brush up ...

NCIG Smash the Ethos Health RAPID Weight Loss Challenge

RAPID is a 6 week weight loss program that Ethos Health runs within workplaces. A relatively new product, it is ...

Results are in …Ethos Health Diabetes Blitz

12-WEEK DIABETES PROGRAM PROVIDES BETTER OUTCOMES THAN 18 MONTHS OF USUAL CARE IN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTICE A collaboration between Hunter ...

New training to keep more workers safe from injury

HSNews July 2013

5 in 6 coal miners now overweight – What’s the plan?

mining-nsw-blog-4.png Ethos Health were proud to be part of this year’s NSW Minerals Council Health Safety and Environment Conference with ...

A wellness program that works

NCIG-lunch.jpg NCIG – Dining out on better health outcomes with a Corporate Lunchbox! Ethos Health would like to congratulate the ...

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

We create and deliver solutions to optimise the health & safety of people and organisations.

Contact us

Fatigue Risk Management System

Injury Prevention & Management

Workplace Health & Wellbeing

Pre-employment & Health Screening

Delivering health & safety solutions since 2009

What we can provide your workplace.

Consultancy

Training

Programs

Technology

Industries we work in...

Mining

Experience

Logistics

Experience

Utilities

Experience

Government

Experience

Infrastructure

Experience

Companies we work with...

Companies we work with...

HOW WE WORK

Our Approach

Our Team

Dr. Trent Watson

Matt Cooper

Dr. Jane Watson

James Morris

Dan Lovegrove

Benn West

Karen Barnett

Nick Davies

Connor Eyers

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