Ergonomics at PACT Group.

Over the past three years, we have partnered with the PACT Group, completing over 200 hazardous manual task risk assessments across 12 sites in Victoria. We have eliminated or engineered over 20 solutions that have reduced the overall risk of musculoskeletal injury to their workforce. We have had regular mentoring sessions with the PACT WHS team and are upskilling them to understand how to reduce manual hazards at each of their sites.  

Ergonomics at the Woolworths Group.

The Woolworths Group asked Productivity Matters to assist in a “Proof of Concept” which included the development of an Ergonomics Training programme for “Ergonomics Champions”, incorporating the use of wearable data and developing risk controls that incorporated user-centred design. There were several engineering solutions identified across the group of Brands including those for Big W, Supermarkets and Metro’s.

Award Winning “Healthy Minds Work” Project – CDC Buses Victoria.

CDC Buses wanted to go further in their pursuit of a psychologically healthy workplace. They engaged Productivity Matters to drive a project that would assist them in obtaining a deeper understanding of the psychosocial risks and complete comprehensive consultation with their workforce.  Their team identified more than 20 Risk Controls. Just some of the actions included upskilling leaders on understanding mental illness and identifying early signs of presentation and referral to professional support, improving efficiencies in customer response to reduce workload for leaders, providing tasks to night shift call monitoring, reducing boredom and enhancing connection to purpose and introduce wellbeing monitoring at depot huddles. The results: 

  • Increased use of EAP 
  • Increased skill of leaders to know how to respond to and manage mental challenges in the workforce 
  • Opened up wellbeing conversations and checking in 
  • Re-ignited the informal social BBQ’s 
  • Reduced mental injury claims and costs associated 
  • Won the Worksafe Award for Commitment to Prevention of Mental Injury in the Workplace I 2023