Reduce workplace injuries before they become claims.
Peak Physiology helps industrial employers find where injury risk is building, cut lost time and claims, and keep people working. Clinician-led and evidence-based, with over a decade of experience on energy, utilities, construction and logistics sites.
The Lost Time Injury Reduction Workshop is valued at $2,000 and free for qualifying organisations. No obligation.
Three shoulder injuries this year.Musculoskeletal injury prevention
Corporate is asking what injuries are really costing us.Occupational Health Risk & Performance Review
Why are we still getting injuries after all this training?Manual handling that changes the task
One claim keeps dragging on.Return to work and injury management
We need to show we are managing psychosocial risk.Psychosocial risk assessments
Practical help with injuries, tasks and return to work.
The services behind our results. Each one starts from your actual tasks and your actual workers, not a generic program.
Manual handling training
Practical, site-specific training that goes beyond compliance, built around your tasks, your workers and your risk profile.
See manual handling training AssessmentErgonomic assessments
On-site assessment of workstations, tasks and posture, office or industrial, with a written report and specific recommendations.
See ergonomic assessments AssessmentJob demands assessments
Objective documentation of a role’s physical requirements, used for recruitment, return-to-work and injury management decisions.
See job demands assessments PreventionInjury prevention programs
Evidence-based programs combining task risk assessment, capacity screening and targeted interventions for musculoskeletal injury.
See injury prevention programs Return to workReturn to work and injury management
Return-to-work support, suitable duties planning and injury management coordination, practical and outcome-focused.
See return to work CompliancePsychosocial risk assessments
Structured identification, rating and documentation of psychosocial hazards, for governance and compliance, not clinical counselling.
See psychosocial risk assessmentsNeed something tailored? See occupational health consulting or how we help.
Why do the same injuries keep happening despite training, procedures and safety systems?
An executive-level risk review for industrial employers. Valued at $2,000, free for qualifying organisations, with limited places each month.
Choose “Free Lost Time Injury Reduction Workshop” on the contact form. We confirm the format and whether it is a fit when you enquire. If it shows a gap worth investigating, the next step is a Workplace Injury Risk Diagnostic. There is no obligation to continue.
- Your key injury risk areas
- The likely drivers of injury cost
- Control opportunities
- Immediate actions
- Prioritised next steps
What are injuries really costing you, and where should leadership act first?
Most organisations can report how many injuries occurred. Fewer can show where risk is concentrated, which controls are working, and what the next dollar should fund. The Occupational Health Risk & Performance Review answers those questions.
Hidden health risk can show up as operational drag: restricted duties, shifts that are hard to staff, and claims that drag on.
- What are workplace injuries really costing us?
- Where is risk concentrated?
- Are our current controls working?
- What should leadership prioritise next?
Free help for local businesses.
Not ready for a workshop? Start with something free and practical.
A free look at one task or workstation
Thirty minutes on site and a written report with the specific issue, why it matters and a rough cost to fix. For Hunter businesses with 15 or more employees.
Request your free assessment Free resourcesPosters and toolbox talks, ready to print
A3 and A4 posters and five-minute toolbox talks on fatigue, manual handling, early reporting and psychosocial health. No sign-up to download.
Get the free resources Free toolAssess a manual task in minutes
An instant risk rating, a body-region breakdown and a downloadable report. Open to any business, any size.
Try the free task risk toolThe same four steps on every engagement.
We look at your floor before we sell you a program.
Assess: find the real risk
Job demands, ergonomic and psychosocial assessments show where risk sits in your tasks and workforce, in a written report your team can act on.
Prevent: act before it is a claim
Manual handling and injury prevention programs built around your actual tasks and your actual workers, not a generic course.
Support: help people early
Early intervention and return-to-work support that catches problems before they become lost time, and manages them properly when they do.
Improve: keep the system working
Ongoing occupational health support and measurement against a baseline, so one-off fixes become a workforce that keeps getting safer.
Results across our workplace programs.
Outcome figures reflect documented results across Peak Physiology workplace programs to date. They describe past work and are not a guarantee of future results.
Recent work.
A sample from industrial, utilities and research settings. Client names are withheld unless a client has agreed to be named.
Workforce transition health and wellbeing program
A multi-year program for a power station workforce facing closure, covering mental fitness, physical wellbeing, social connection, financial wellbeing and support networks.
Musculoskeletal injury prevention across a large energy company
Training packages, risk assessment tools, leader training and injury risk screening across complex multi-site worksites.
Onsite injury prevention at a Hunter region facility
Hands-on injury prevention and early intervention delivered directly on site, with an ongoing program.
Task demands database and return-to-work program review
Task and demands analysis with a database to guide injury prevention and return to work, plus a redesigned return-to-work program.
Musculoskeletal injury screening research
PhD research into injury risk in hazardous manual-task workforces. A systematic review of 32 studies is complete and publication is pending.
Read the case studies
Problem, intervention and outcome for each project.
See case studiesWhen a program outgrows a spreadsheet.
Rugged at Work runs the same assessment model across more people and more sites, and records the evidence behind every recommendation. People make the decisions. The software supports them.
A Rugged pilot follows a Peak Physiology assessment, once there is a measured baseline. It is not sold cold.
- Recommendations only. No automated fitness-for-work decisions.
- Every finding and action recorded, so a later review can see what was found and done.
- Data kept separate for each client organisation.
Your health, your goals, your plan.
Managing an injury, trying to lose weight, or wanting to feel stronger and more capable? Our exercise physiologists build a program around your life.
- Injury treatment and rehabilitation
- Weight loss and body composition
- Cardiovascular and metabolic health
- Strength and performance
How is your health actually tracking?
Answer five quick questions about your eating, movement and goals. Get a plain-English snapshot with your number one lever: the single change with the most upside right now.
Built on clinical expertise, driven by evidence.
Peak Physiology is a family-owned workplace health business in the Hunter and Lake Macquarie region. We started in injury treatment and grew into a partner for prevention, management and performance, because stopping injuries before they happen is better than managing them afterwards.
- Accredited Exercise Physiologist and SIRA-approved
- Over a decade of experience across clinical and industrial settings
- PhD candidate, University of Sydney, researching musculoskeletal injury prevention
- Serving Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, the Central Coast and the Hunter, and nationally for projects
- Family-owned and independent. No corporate health template.
Start with a free workshop on your injury risk.
Whether you are a WHS manager trying to cut injury rates or a leader asking what injuries cost, we will tell you plainly whether there is a gap worth costing out.