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MSS Security is a leading security company offering a full suite of personnel security services across Australia. Actevate and MSS Security have been working together for some time completing the pre-employment health assessments for their employees nationally. For a business that relies on its people power, it is important that the business manages their people risk. Sara Lock the Human Resources and Industrial Relations Manager for NSW/ACT, says “the level of transparency we get at the recruitment stage for potential new employees is invaluable for us in helping our workers at work and for their general wellbeing”. MSS Security is known in the industry for their employees' long tenure, so they are doing something right! She goes onto to say that “the health screenings have helped identify health issues for existing and potential new employees that may have otherwise been undetected”. Men are not good at seeing their doctors for health screening and these assessments have revealed health issues such as diabetes or heart conditions “that we can then encourage them manage with their doctors”.

Recently MSS Security expanded their services when they won an new contract. Actevate conducted pre-employment health assessments of 148 employees. These assessments took place at MSS Security office in Ashfield, and at the regional locations in outer Sydney metro and Hunter Valley. Sara said “these ease at which Actevate did these was an enormous help in making the transition for these employees seamless.”

“Actevate were professional and the turnaround in assessment was quick so that we could get on with managing the transition of this contract into our business without too many hassles.”

Some of our health team like Michael, Vish, Aaron and Kate completed all the assessments and were able to give MSS Security a sense of the health status of these ncandidates and were able to identify those candidates with a higher risk of musculoskeletal injury. Sara adds “we now have reports of the health status at a site and state level that can help us manage our risks and put in place programs if we need to”. Actevate provided recommendations to MSS Security on how to best manage those risks to keep their employee safe but to also avoid potentially costly workers compensation claims. Pre-employee health assessments have helped MSS Security with managing their people risks but also provide a way to engage with their employees in health and wellbeing issues which is important as we ask our employees to work longer and the ageing workforce a real and present issue for many employers.

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