FIFO and mining operators
Remote rosters, compressed sleep and physically demanding work.
Women’s health screening in the workforce
For workplaces in Perth and across Western Australia, including remote and fly-in fly-out sites.
Where a workforce medical checks haemoglobin, it cannot see iron deficiency without anaemia: iron stores are depleted while haemoglobin still reads normal. I build screening that flags who is at risk of it, then hand it to your team to run and own.
Safety-critical workforces
Occupational-health providers
Add an iron-deficiency screening layer to the medicals you already deliver, without building it in-house.
Corporate HR
Large female workforces where fatigue shows up as absenteeism and turnover long before it shows up in a medical.
The fatigue hiding in your fitness-for-work data
A haemoglobin check misses iron deficiency without anaemia, where iron stores are depleted and haemoglobin still reads normal. Australian guidance links it to fatigue, difficulty concentrating and poor work productivity (Balendran and Forsyth, Australian Prescriber 2021;44(6):193-6).
In remote, fly-in fly-out (FIFO) and physically demanding work there is a route into deficiency a standard medical does not look for. Hard exercise raises hepcidin, still significantly elevated three hours afterwards (Sim et al., Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 2013;23:178-86), and hepcidin is what blocks iron absorption from the gut. A study from the same group found that rise is blunted once iron stores are already low (Peeling et al., PLoS One 2014;9:e93002), so this is the mechanism that pushes a worker with normal stores toward deficiency. For women, heavy menstrual bleeding adds to the loss. That makes fatigue in these workforces worth a closer look than a haemoglobin check can give.
Workforce Health Screening Audit
A structured review of what your current workforce health screening actually covers, where the published evidence says it has gaps, and what to do about them in priority order, delivered three weeks from the date your protocol documents arrive.
A$4,999 fixed fee
For a standard audit: up to three screening instruments, up to two stakeholder interviews, the written report, the one-page summary and the walkthrough call. A 20% deposit (A$999.80) secures your start. In Australian dollars, and no GST is added. A larger scope, such as more instruments, more sites or more interviews, is quoted in writing first.
- You receive a written report on current coverage, the gaps against current evidence and prioritised recommendations, a one-page summary for someone who will not read the report, and one 45-minute call to walk through the findings.
- The review covers up to three screening instruments or protocols, up to two stakeholder interviews, and an evidence review of those instruments against the published literature.
- It does not include implementation, staff training, building or deploying any screening tool, clinical care or advice about any individual worker, ongoing advisory after delivery, or any assessment of your occupational-health provider.
- From you I need your pre-employment and periodic medical protocols, the pathology panel if bloods are run, any fatigue or health questionnaire in use, two 45-minute conversations, and a named contact. I accept de-identified documents only, and no individual worker's health information.
- If your screening is adequate for your workforce, the report will say so. Nothing I provide is a clinical instrument or replaces a decision made by your own qualified clinicians.
A screening tool your team runs itself
The risk factors and questions come from my screening research and the published evidence base, including the IRON-5 screening instrument (Vinge et al., Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026). Where blood results are used, the ferritin cut-off follows published Australian guidance, which treats a ferritin below 30 ug/L as iron deficiency. I co-authored the Haematology in Obstetrics and Women's Health Collaborative consensus, which uses the same threshold in pregnancy. Configured for your workforce and handed to your team, it sits alongside your existing fatigue-management and fitness-for-work processes, without adding a clinician bottleneck.
- Automated triage flags only the workers who need clinical follow-up, routing them to your existing pathways, with no new headcount.
- It is a one-time build you keep, with no recurring licence.
- The tool sits inside your own systems, so privacy and governance stay with you.
The open demonstration
Try the open demo yourself. It takes about two minutes and shows you exactly what a flagged result looks like. Your answers stay in your browser, and nothing is stored unless you choose to have the summary emailed to you.
Process
Scope
A short diagnostic call, then a site and workforce profile: roster structure, demographics, and how your current medical provider is engaged. The output is a fixed scope and a fixed price before anything starts.
Build
I configure the screening and triage tool to your site, on secure infrastructure you control.
Handover
Your team runs it from day one, with training and a documented escalation pathway. You own the tool outright, with the documentation to run it without me.
The tool, protocol and training
- The tool, owned outright.
- A written triage protocol that routes every flag to a pathway your safety and legal teams can stand behind.
- Training for whoever runs it, whether site medics, human resources or your occupational-health provider, before I step back.
- A plain-language summary of the research behind the tool, written to hand straight to leadership.
Price and scope
The audit is a fixed fee of A$4,999 for a defined scope, and a 20% deposit (A$999.80) secures your start. A screening build is scoped separately, usually after an audit has shown where the gap is, and priced as a fixed-fee build against your site's needs. The suggested start for a build is a single-site pilot, extended once the first roster cycle of data is in.
The site health-risk consultation
A 30-minute site health-risk conversation to map your workforce's fatigue and iron-deficiency exposure, and whether a pilot makes sense for you.