The purpose of the Occupational Athletic™ System (OAS) is to enhance the existing health and safety practices of your company. The OAS is designed to train and treat employees as if they were professional athletes and is extremely proactive in preventing workplace injuries, accidents and illnesses.

Utilizing the concept of aging and athletics from the popular Gameplan For Aging, Your Four Quarters of Life, Occupational Athletics’ behavior – based systems and products have the capability to touch every employee (unlike traditional wellness programs that often influence a few), creating a true morale-boosting athletic atmosphere in your business where the employees (your players) want to improve their health and well-being.

Occupational Athletics™ offers five systems for the corporate and industrial markets that tie in the health of your employees to their personal safety.

System I
Train the Trainer Systems

The Train the Trainer Systems allow supervisors, management and volunteers to disseminate information to each and every employee. All systems are designed to be integrated into your company’s existing health and safety practice and may be offered to multiple companies to consolidate businesses in a geographic region or provided directly onsite at the company’s location.

Train the Trainer Systems include:

• Pre-shift Stretch Leader Certification System
• Fatigue Management and Sleep System
• Stress Buster System
• Back Assessment Pre-employment System
• Performance Nutrition System
• Conditioning, Body Mechanics and Back Prevention System
• Lifestyle Factor System

System II
Implementation of Occupational Athletics Pre-shift Stretch System

An Occupational Athletics’ specialist will implement the Pre-shift Stretch System onsite at your company’s location. Implementation requires 2 – 4 days onsite based upon the number of employees and shift schedules.

The Implementation includes:

• Employee Group Training Seminars – The Gameplan for Aging
• Supervisor and Management Train-the-Trainer Stretch Leader Certification
• Roll-out of the Pre-shift Stretch System

Products included in the implementation:

• Employee Handouts
• Stretch Leader Manuals
• Stretch Leader Certifications
• Individual Laminated Stretch Cards
• OA Pre-shift Stretch Videos and DVD’s
• OA Stretch Leader Train the Trainer Videos and DVD’s
• OA Advanced Pre-shift Stretch Videos and DVD’s
• Laminated Stretch Posters
• Employee Evaluation Forms
• Telephone Follow-up
• Stretch Leader Certification (optional)
• Ongoing Follow-up To Sustain Stretch (available)

System III
Training Seminar Systems

Occupational Athletics provides a variety of Management and Employee Group Training Seminars. All Training Seminar Systems utilize The Gameplan for Aging philosophy and provide techniques to educate, motivate, and inspire employees to improve overall health and safety behaviors.

Training Seminars include:

• The Gameplan for Training, Your Four Quarters of Life
• Stress Busters
• Performance Nutrition, Eating for Energy to Age
• Lifestyle Factor – Integrating Health to Safety
• Back to Basics – Injury Prevention and Back Conditioning Training
• Use Work to Get Fit, Not Hurt
• The Conditioning Clinic
• Fatigue and Sleep Management Training
• The Bus Athlete
• The Road Athlete
• The Occupational Athlete

System IV
Onsite Occupational Athletic Specialist
Human Maintenance System

This is the most comprehensive model. An Occupational Athletic Specialist is positioned onsite at your company location or may be shared between three to five locations – or – even shared among two to five different companies based upon the demands for service and demographics.

This System is the perfect fit for companies with:

• 300 – 500 employees
• High exposures to work related injuries
• An aging workforce
• Increasing costs associated with healthcare
• Union environments

The Specialist provides all of Occupational Athletics’ injury and illness prevention through the Human Maintenance System (HMS) and our Healthy Lifestyle Promotion System (HLPS). These systems focus on your company’s greatest concerns, be it injury prevention, disease prevention, or healthy lifestyle promotion.

• The HMS begins with a company profile to determine the appropriate level of service hours required to produce a ROI.
• System II – Implementation of The Pre-shift Stretch will kick-off the program.

Occupational Athletics has a variety of Specialists available including:

• Occupational Therapist
• Physical Therapist
• Nurse
• Exercise Physiologist
• Physician’s Assistant
• Physical Therapy Assistant

System V
Occupational Athletics’ Consulting Systems

Our Consulting Systems provide clients with specific onsite services.

These services include, but are not limited to:

• Physical Demands Analysis
• Injury Prevention Assessments
• Health Risk Appraisals (HRA’s)
• Design Disease Prevention Systems
• Design and Implementation of Employee Health Promotion & Wellness Systems
• Design and Development of Onsite Occupational Athletic Centers
• Design of Health Promotion Incentive Systems
• New Hire Occupational Athletic Training Systems
• Recertification of Occupational Athletic Stretch Leaders
• Customized Product Development and Support Systems