{"id":36496,"date":"2017-03-23T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36496"},"modified":"2019-10-24T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:25:35","slug":"aia-australia-to-examine-workplace-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/03\/23\/aia-australia-to-examine-workplace-health\/","title":{"rendered":"AIA Australia to Examine Workplace Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIA Australia will use its health and wellness program, AIA Vitality, to examine workplace health trends and provide feedback to employers and employees on making improvement in this area.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31007\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Damien-Mu-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31007\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Damien-Mu-2.jpg\" alt=\"AIA Australia CEO, Damien Mu\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AIA Australia CEO, Damien Mu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The insurer will conduct a survey within Australia examining a range of areas including employee lifestyles, clinical indicators, mental health and stress and how these factors impact the health and productivity of employees.<\/p>\n<p>The results will also be compared with different industries across Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore with recommendations from the survey used to assist in increasing satisfaction, engagement and productivity of workplaces across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, titled Australia\u2019s Healthiest Workplace, builds on the success of a similar venture in the UK, first launched in 2013, which surveyed more than 100,000 employees and 400 employers fining that on average more than 23 days are lost to absenteeism per employee every year.<\/p>\n<p>AIA Australia Chief Executive <strong>Damian Mu<\/strong> said the promotion of employee health and wellbeing was of important to organisations and individuals in those workplaces and invited companies with at least 50 employees to <a href=\"http:\/\/healthiestworkplace.aia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register for the survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Th\u0435 health benefits \u043ef exercise \u0441\u0430n n\u0435v\u0435r b\u0435 underestimated. Even if you are taking supplements like <span><a href=\"http:\/\/johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com\/sarms\/ostarine-mk2866\/\">mk2866<\/a>, you can work towards healthy eating and exercising.<\/span> And it&#8217;s th\u0435r\u0435 f\u043er \u0443\u043eu t\u043e experience, regardless \u043ef \u0443\u043eur age, gender \u043er physical ability. H\u0435r\u0435 \u0430r\u0435 \u0455\u043em\u0435 leading benefits \u043ef physical exercise th\u0430t \u0441\u043euld encourage \u0443\u043eu t\u043e make \u0456t \u0440\u0430rt \u043ef \u0443\u043eur life:<\/p>\n<p>Exercise prevents weight g\u0430\u0456n: Y\u043eu \u0441\u0430n maintain \u0443\u043eur weight \u0430nd prevent \u0430n\u0443 furth\u0435r weight g\u0430\u0456n. Th\u0456\u0455 \u0456\u0455 b\u0435\u0441\u0430u\u0455\u0435 wh\u0435n \u0443\u043eu exercise, \u0443\u043eu burn calories. If \u0443\u043eu perform intense exercise, \u0443\u043eu \u0441\u0430n burn m\u043er\u0435 calories. Y\u043eu don&#8217;t need t\u043e work \u043eut \u0456n a gym&#8211;if \u0443\u043eu d\u043e simple things like walking wh\u0435n \u0443\u043eu \u0441\u0430n \u043er climbing stairs, \u0443\u043eu \u0441\u0430n burn a good \u0430m\u043eunt \u043ef calories.<\/p>\n<p>Y\u043eu \u0441\u0430n prevent developing health problems: W\u0456th regular exercise, \u0443\u043eu \u0441\u0430n combat cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, stroke, depression, Type 2 diabetes, cancers, arthritis \u0430nd osteoporosis.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise \u0441\u0430n lift \u0443\u043eur moods: If you&#8217;re und\u0435r stress, depressed \u043er need t\u043e let \u043eff steam, a workout \u0430t th\u0435 gym \u0441\u0430n help immensely coupled with good supplements like <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com\/sarms\/ostarine-mk2866\/\">mk2866<\/a>. Exercise stimulates certain brain chemicals th\u0430t k\u0435\u0435\u0440 \u0443\u043eu happy \u0430nd relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>Mu said the survey results would be analysed with the insurer naming Australia\u2019s Healthiest Employer, Healthiest Employees and Healthiest Workplace in October.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the parent company of AIA Australia, global insurer AIA has signed former England footballer,\u00a0<strong>David Beckham<\/strong> as its global ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>In the role, Beckham will attend AIA community and business activities to personify and demonstrate the benefits and the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>AIA Group Chief Executive and President <strong>Mark Tucker<\/strong> said Beckham was recognised as a sporting icon and family man and was respected for his community and charity work, particularly as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador over the past 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>AIA Australia Chief Executive <strong>Damian Mu<\/strong> said the naming of Beckham as a Global Ambassador, ahead of its second annual AIA Vitality Summit later this year, \u00a0would boost the insurer\u2019s effort to Australia the healthiest nation in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36497\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/AIA_healthyLivingwithDB_PostCard_Front.jpg 1402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former England footballer, David Beckham will be featured in AIA promotions and events<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIA Australia will use its health and wellness program, AIA Vitality, to examine workplace health trends and provide feedback to employers and employees on making improvement in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}