These interactive playbook systems are a step-by-step plan to initiate and complete significant healthy lifestyle changes. The Athlete Systems provide your employees with educational information and the motivation to take control and manage their own lifestyles more effectively resulting in healthier, safer, and happier people.
Human Maintenance System
The Human Maintenance System is a TOTAL RISK SOLUTION that focuses on your company’s greatest concerns: employee accidents, injuries, and illness. Utilizing onsite Certified Athletic Trainers, immediate and long lasting results can be expected in the areas of safety, productivity, morale, and overall quality of life.
Health and Safety Seminars
Health & Safety Seminars are a very effective approach to educate, motivate, and inspire people to prioritize their lifestyle management and personal safety. Mark Everest and our other presenters are passionate about health & safety and gifted at creating interest and awareness where it is needed.
Physical Demands Analysis
Our trainers directly observe and analyze the physical demands required of your employees to perform the essential functions of their specific job tasks including: loads and forces, posture, motion, environments, etc.
Physical Readiness System
This 10-12 minute routine that employees perform together onsite before their shift begins, physically prepares them for the demands of their jobs. The system emphasizes important elements such as movement, strength, balance, flexibility, and awareness.
Improve: Condition of workforce Reduce injuries Provide focus, motivation, team-like atmosphere
Functional Fit For Duty
Functional Fit for Duty Programs are based on a Physical Demands Analysis of specific jobs. Following the PDA, a Functional Fit for Duty Plan that includes instructions with modifications as needed for proper biomechanical techniques for the specific job’s physical demands will be implemented.
Bus Athlete System
An interactive health and safety program that specifically addresses the unique “roadblocks” facing bus drivers/operators that may prevent them from living a healthy lifestyle.
Occupational Athletics’ Bus Athlete Interactive Health and Safety Systems have been nationally endorsed by North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI) and Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA).
"Are your drivers/operators in the best possible physical condition for their age?"
Health Drives Safety THE HEALTH OF YOUR EMPLOYEES AFFECTS YOUR INDUSTRY
Drivers/operators with unhealthy lifestyles are more likely to be involved in accidents.
Accident costs range from thousands of dollars to millions based on severity.
Absenteeism accounts for additional costs associated with replacement.
High turnover rates cost thousands of dollars per driver/operator.
The cost of liability policies are on the rise.
Rising healthcare insurance and worker’s compensation costs affect your bottom line.
Work-related injuries can cost thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
WE CAN HELP YOUR DRIVERS TO LEAD HEALTHIER and SAFER LIVES
By using The Bus Athlete System (BAS), bus drivers/operators have the opportunity to become involved in improving their own health and safety. They are "bus athletes." Their playing field is the road; they are the quarterback of their bus, and each work day is a new game with a new opportunity to achieve their goals.
The Bus Athlete System Covers 12 Lifestyle Factors
Nutrition
Physical Exercise
Mental Fitness
Stress Reduction
Attitude and Happiness
Sleep
Substance Abuse
Time Management
Motivation
Disease Prevention
Weight/Obesity
Relaxation
Safety Factors Include
Weather Conditions
Driving Regulations
Passenger Safety
Compliance
Pre-Trip Inspections
Post-Trip Inspections
Injury Prevention
Employee – Employer Relations
The Bus Athlete System Includes
Bus Athlete System Game book (A 12 month system designed for the driver/operator to make simple changes in his/her own health and safety.)
2 Audio CD’s (Over 2 hours of training)
Disc 1: A motivational talk by Mark Everest, based on The Gameplan for Aging, Your Four Quarters of Life.
Disc 2: A roundtable discussion with bus drivers and safety experts focusing on the lifestyle and safety of the professional driver/operator.
Train the Trainer Manual (optional)
4 Quarterly Utilization Survey Cards
Laminated Stretch Card and Ruler
Training Modules (optional – additional cost) for BAS Instructor Certification
Powerpoint presentation and script (optional)
Train the Train Trainer Program
Each participant will be trained in the utilization of the Bus Athlete System on how to execute and integrate the system into your company's health and safety culture. They will become your Bus Athlete System Coaches. As you are aware, the professional driver industry is extremely demanding; physically, mentally, and emotionally. The Bus Athlete System provides solutions that will substantially lower the risk of harm.
The American Bus Association and the Bus Industry Safety Council fully endorse the Bus Athlete and Occupational Athlete Systems!