SINGAPORE – A healthy and balanced bus driver is a much better driver. This is the philosophy of Singapore’s newest bus company, which is why Tower Transit is making it mandatory for all of its drivers to learn exactly how to live a healthier lifestyle.
Since January, concerning 300 of the company’s bus drivers have actually gone through a work environment good health programme created by the good health Promotion Board. The Starting Right programme is portion of the orientation programme for all of brand-new drivers.
It entails a full-day workshop that teaches participants exactly how to consume and drink healthily. Drivers learn exactly how to read nutritional labels, intend healthy and balanced food, and make healthier meals selections through a virtual supermarket tour. It likewise entails mass exercise.
THE BUS Leader WORKOUT: At the Bulim Bus Depot, Tower Transit Singapore drivers sweat it out in a mass physical exercise customised to address the bodily demands from long hours of driving. This is portion of the brand-new bus operator’s compulsory work environment good health workshop for their bus captains, organised in partnership along with good health Promotion Board, Singapore. The programme covers topics such as healthy and balanced eating, bodily activity, hydration and driving ergonomics. Senior Minister of State for good health Dr Amy Khor participated in today’s mass workout.(Video: Wee Teck Hian/TODAY)
Posted by TODAY on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
After the workshop, the drivers undergo good health screenings that are conducted within Tower Transit’s Bulim bus depot. Two weeks later, they grab one-to-one coaching sessions to tips them achieve their good health goals.
According to the HPB, Tower Transit is the only transport company to make the work environment good health programme mandatory for its drivers. It is likewise the only company to have actually personalised coaching for participants.
“We look out for our bus captains’ personal, bodily and mental wellbeing due to the fact that a healthy, positive bus Leader is a huge asset to us,” said Tower Transit Singapore managing director Andrew Bujtor. “A bus Leader that is match and well is much better able to concentrate on his or her driving, and is much more inclined to serve along with a smile and delight in his or her job.
“No quantity of your hard earned cash on the planet can easily buy that, which is why the ‘Starting Right’ programme is crucial to our bus captains, to us and to our passengers.”
The next phase of Starting Right will certainly take place after June. This will certainly address workplace-related good health complications such as good driving ergonomics and sitting posture.
Apart from workshops, Tower Transit is likewise making sure that it provides A healthy and balanced environment for its drivers. The canteen at Bulim Depot does not serve white rice, only brown rice and concerning 70 per cent of drinks sold in the vending machines will certainly bear the HPB’s healthier choice symbol. The depot likewise has actually table tennis and foosball tables to encourage the drivers to be much more active.
The programme is already making a difference along with some drivers. “I used to believe brown rice was hard and tasteless, however we were taught exactly how to cook it so that it becomes soft and fluffy,” said bus Leader Tay Hwee Yeow. “Now I’m much more encouraged to consume healthily and to make healthier selections at the supermarket or at hawker centres along with my family.”
Dr Amy Khor, the Senior Minister of State for Health, visited Bulim bus depot on Wednesday (March 9) and dropped in on the programme to observe it in action. Speaking to reporters later, she said: “It is a reflection of the solid commitment of Tower Transit in investing in the good health of workers – ensuring that they sustain healthy, and in fact, this is something we can easily emulate and encourage all of employers to do the same – invest in the good health of mature workers, sustain them healthy and balanced as well as skilled.”
She said the national work environment good health programme (WHP), which aims to reach out to 120,000 mature workers, aged 40 and above, has actually engaged along with much more compared to 9,000 taxi drivers and 1,000 bus captains in the transport sector. She described the results as “quite encouraging”, along with almost half of the taxi drivers and bus drivers showing improvement in their good health results on their second good health screening.
She said: “along with an ageing population, an ageing workforce is something that employers must see as a workforce of the future – and they must value their mature workers, due to the years of experience that they have, they must see them as an asset, and go on to invest in them, in terms of maintaining them in good health, as well as upgrading their skills so that they can easily go on to be productive, and contribute, not merely to the company, however to the economy.”
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