Engen’s Forecourt Wellness Days kicked off in Cape Town at the Good Hope Centre on June 4th and 5th this year.

The road show enlists pump attendants and their colleagues in a mass voluntary health screening for diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV and cholesterol, held at Engen’s annual Phambili Roadshow.

“After last year’s successful pilot, which saw over 450 Engen pump attendants and other retail franchise staff receive free check-ups, we decided to extend the wellness campaign to other parts of the country,’’ says Tasneem Sulaiman-Bray, Engen’s General Manager: Corporate Affairs.

From Cape Town the Phambili Roadshow, which includes industrial theatre,  the popular Pump Idols contest and lots of prizes,  will travel to Johannesburg on June 10th and 11th; Pretoria on the 12th, and then onto Durban on July 2nd and 3rd.  Plans are in place to further extend the campaign to Nelspruit and East London in 2015.

Driver health matters
Forecourt Wellness Days are a recent extension of Engen’s annual Truck Driver Wellness campaign, which for the past four years has educated long distance truck drivers about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle while on the road. Besides screening for the abovementioned conditions and body mass index (BMI), the programme also provides counselling and a referral service where required, and promotes health awareness with talks on HIV and male circumcision.

This year’s Driver Wellness campaign will visit 17 Engen sites between June and October, screening over 1000 drivers.

Frontline first
Sulaiman-Bray says the inclusion of retail staff is part of Engen’s strategy to optimise and leverage the success of the Driver Wellness programme. “The decision is based on observations made during previous campaigns. Forecourt employees invariably showed a keen interest in doing the screening before everyone else. We then made a call to action and challenged dealers and sales managers to come and lead by example on the day.”

She says forecourt employees leave their homes very early and often go home late and don’t have sufficient time to take care of their health. “By offering primary healthcare to them we are delivering real convenience. Forecourt staff can also benefit from a proactive approach to wellness, which enables early detection and preventative measures. Their health matters to us, because we value them .



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