1. BIC CONFERENCE 2013 1 Nikki Brouwers – Interact Injury Management

2. Why Address Health And Wellbeing? Decrease sick leave by 25.3% Decrease workers compensation costs by 40.7% Decrease disability management costs by 24.2% Save $5.81 for ever $1 invested.

3. The Cost Benefit Analysis Healthy employees are 3 times more effective than less healthy OR 143 effective hours per month compared with 49 hours effective hours for less healthy.

4. How Did We Go About The Survey?

5. Thanks to key participants:  The Entrance Red Bus (Leanne Griffith, NSW)  Transit Australia Group ( Mel Manley QLD)  Australia Transit Group (Ben Doolan WA)  Greyhound Australia (Kylie Henningsen, QLD)  Bus Lines Group (Geoff Ferris, NSW)  Transport Workers Union (Bob Giddens)  BIC (Michael Apps)  Bus NSW ( Darryl Mellish)

6. Key Relationships: Good News!  95.7% indicated they had either an average or positive relationship with their supervisor / manager  87.9% indicated they had either an average or positive relationship with their partner

7. The Incidence of Harassment And Bullying

8. Factors outside the scope of the initial survey Differences between route and school (38-50 hours) versus casual school drivers Differences between country and city Analysis of previous health and well being policy and programmes

9. Next Steps Importance of matching any intervention to individual workplaces/workplace cultures Empowerment of drivers is critical. Any successful program needs to engage individuals to make healthy choices. Resilience, harassment and bullying and healthy lifestyle choices would be first steps.

10. Next Steps Next year Interact Injury Management will be involved with APTIA in the development of a Health and Well Being Kit as a product of the survey and developed knowledge acquired from the strategic alliance with APTIA.

11. Questions Nikki Brouwers nikki@interactgroup.com.au 0419 618868