Trench Case Study

Case Study of Trench Health and Wellness Programs in two Government Agencies

Client One

A WA Govt agency which employees over 1,000 people spread over six separate Perth locations with multiple regional offices.

Trench implemented a comprehensive Health and Wellness Program in 2008 and 2009 consisting of

· Annual Healthy Heart Checks
· Exercise opportunities
· One-on-one lifestyle counselling
· Health initiatives such as Belly Blasters, Energise and Re-Fresh

Absenteeism dropped by 27% from 17,096 hours in 2007 to 12,495 hours in 2008.

Client Two

Another WA Govt agency which employees just over 600 employees with separate Perth locations and multiple regional offices.

The client conducted an evaluation of the Trench health and Wellness Program last year, and services being very familiar to those described above of Client One.

Summary of the study findings are:

· Strong evidence to suggest that the program is effective in improving health knowledge and behaviours in employees who make use of the program.

· Program users report more satisfaction with the wellness program, increased health knowledge and behaviours, more commitment as a result of the program and greater overall commitment to the organisation.

· Individuals who use the program at higher levels report the most positive benefits in terms of satisfaction with the program, increases in health knowledge and behaviours, and commitment.

· Non-users and low users report similar responses to commitment related to the program, organisational citizenship behaviours and overall commitment.