A national initiative committed to delivering healthier choices for all workers in the road transport, warehousing and logistics sector.
A registered not-for-profit charitable foundation, Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds (HHTS) is established to improve areas relating to psychological safety and physical well-being across the road transport, warehousing, and logistics industries in Australia.
of truck drivers do not meet the guidelines for a healthy and balanced diet.
What we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health.
pre-pilot surveys completed.
multifaceted pilot programs created specific for Australian road transport, warehousing and logistics workers.
Australia’s logistics and transport industry workers face many challenges. Recent research shows that 70% of truck drivers do not meet the guidelines for a healthy and balanced diet with 55.7% of drivers classified as obese (1). The 2021 Indicators of a Thriving Workplace Survey reported that 48.2% of transport, postal and warehousing industry respondents stated they had experienced a mental health condition in the last 12 months, the lowest score of any sector.
Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds is committed to providing support services and programs to improve the health of the industry and embarked on the Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds Pilot Program with National Nutrition Foundation.
What we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health. There is a clear need to provide education about and access to healthier choices for all workers in the road transport, warehousing and logistics sector and a key pillar of the foundation’s strategy.
We have worked closely with Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds to create a Pilot Program, endeavouring to educate, raise awareness and encourage longer-term healthy eating among truck drivers.
In 2022, we developed a pilot program in partnership HHTS and the support of BP service centres.
Key activities included a communication and marketing campaign to educate drivers on the benefits of healthy eating as well as the provision of incentivised healthy food and drink options at BP service centres.
Phase 1 – Program targeting heavy vehicle drivers with support of BP partnership (2022)
Phase 2 – Ongoing
After the successful results of Phase One of the program, National Nutrition Foundation is working with Woolworths at Work on Phase 2 to further amplify the reach to the broader industry and warehouse teams.
1) Xia, Ting; Van Vreden, Caryn; Pritchard, Elizabeth; Newnam, Sharon; Rajaratnam, Shantha M. W.; Lubman, Dan I.; et al. (2021): Driving Health Report 8: Determinants of Australian truck driver physical and mental health and driving performance: Findings from the telephone survey. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/16563984
(2) SuperFriend (2021). Transport, Postal and Warehousing 2021 Industry Profile. Retrieved from Indicators of a Thriving Workplace – SuperFriend
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