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.
The Physical Readiness System
We are ALL Athletes in Life!
The Physical Readiness System is a 10-12 minute routine that employees perform together onsite before their shift begins - in order to physically prepare themselves for the demands of the job. The system emphasizes important elements such as movement, strength, balance, flexibility, and awareness to improve the condition of the workforce and especially to reduce injuries. It also provides focus, motivation, and a team-like atmosphere.
WHY get Physically Ready for work?
Increased physical efficiency and performance of daily tasks
Increased awareness of one’s self
Decreased risk of injury
Decreased wear and tear on joints
Increased coordination
Reduced muscular soreness
Improved balance and postural awareness
Decreased risk of low back, neck (headaches), elbow, and wrist pain
Increased blood supply to muscles, tendons and joints
Reduced Stress (relaxation)
Enhanced well-being
PHASE I: The Gameplan for Aging Your Four Quarters of Life Motivational Seminar
The implementation of the Physical Readiness System is introduced by our renowned motivational seminar: The Gameplan for Aging; Your Four Quarters of Life. This seminar is a meaningful reality check that provides participants with the knowledge and motivation to make a plan of action that will benefit their own personal well-being and safety by improving their lifestyle.
PHASE II: Train the Trainer
“Physical Readiness Coach” volunteers from each shift will act as team leaders, who will motivate others and lead the Physical Readiness System each day.
Physical Readiness Coaches will be equipped with the following:
Biomechanics of the Physical Readiness System
Proper flexibility & lifting techniques
Overview of the anatomy and prevention of injuries
Group motivational skills and employee health promotion
How to address those with limitations
How to address reluctant participants
The Physical Readiness System also includes:
Instructional DVDs
Physical Readiness Technique Posters
Employee Handouts
Physical Readiness Coach Manuals
Laminated Physical Readiness Cards
Employee Evaluation Forms
The Physical Readiness System has been implemented in hundreds of corporations throughout the country. We have over a million American workers performing the Physical Readiness System on the clock every day.
We have had the opportunity to pilot Occupational Athletic’s - Game Plan for Aging / Pre Stretch Daily Exercises at Johnsonville’s Riverside Facility beginning Jan 2010. The change in thinking is having a very positive effect on our ergonomic related injuries. Our Members (once very skeptical… before the journey began) have fully embraced it. Mark has been blessed with the special ability to be able to touch his listeners head and heart with real-life stories that make a profound impact on their lives. Many of our members (including myself) are now engaged in daily workouts at our Global Exercise Center. We have witnessed some great success with members dropping 20, 30, 40 and even 50 lbs.
After we were about 4 weeks into our journey, two veteran (or seasoned players, as Mark likes to refer to them) approached me in the hallway and said:
We are feeling better each day now that we are stretching. We really notice the improvement at the beginning and end of our work day. You know, Shane, that a few members on our team have worked at other places over the last 30 years, and Johnsonville Sausage is the only employer that cares enough to bring in a great resource like Mark to help us feel better. That means a lot to us and says a lot about Johnsonville as a company.
Shane Bennin APC- Raw Business Leader, Johnsonville Sausage
