Presentations from the 2010 annual conference

WorkCoverSA’s fifth annual conference, ‘Working today for a healthy tomorrow’, highlighted that working is good for health and wellbeing, not just physically, but mentally and socially too. It also reinforced the importance of staying at work or returning to work following a workplace injury.

The conference featured highly respected international and national speakers who presented the research and evidence of the health benefits of working, as well as real experiences and practical strategies to support it.

Some of these presentations are available through the links below.

Keynote session 1 - Tackling barriers to recovery and return to work
(Prof Mansel Aylward) [270KB]

Supplementary document: Realising the Health Benefits of Work Position Statement [590KB]

Session 1A - Being out of work is more dangerous to health (Mary Wyatt and
Robin Chase) [195KB]

Session 1B - Health and work (Kevin Morris) [347KB]

Session 1C - The individual worker in the context of the system (Coralie Wales) [247KB]

Session 2A - Underuse vs overuse (Mary Wyatt) [383KB]

Session 2B - Helping injured workers recover while staying at work (Radek Stratil) [360KB]

Session 3B - Back on track (Ron Harvey) [57KB]

Session 3C - A healthy return to work journey (Julia Suban) [40KB]