Workplace Flu Vaccinations
Vaccinate your workforce to reduce time off work and improve productivity with our efficient and convenient service.
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Keep Your Workforce Productive
Protect your workforce against the seasonal flu with our on-site vaccine programs.
Annual influenza vaccinations help prevent time off work, maintaining productivity and business resilience.
As your end-to-end healthcare partner, we’ll coordinate with you to attend workplace locations like offices and job sites – no time off work for employees, and no associated travel costs.
Keeping your people healthy doesn’t have to be complicated.
Why Choose RediMed?
At RediMed, we bring years of experience and expertise in conducting on-site flu vaccination clinics for numerous clients across various industries. Our dedicated approach ensures your employees receive their vaccinations in a safe, efficient manner, with the least disruption to their work schedules.
Your specific needs and requirements are identified and managed by your dedicated customer relationship manager every step of the way.
Easily book vaccinations for your employees through the RediMed digital portal. You can also arrange bulk vaccinations through your relationship manager.
As part of your workforce health strategy, we’ll help you identify roles that have additional vaccine requirements – like workers operating overseas or near animals.
Our mobile vaccination units mean we can come to your offices or work sites, minimising employee time off work.
Protect Your Workforce Today.
Book your 2024 flu vaccinations with skin cancer checks and receive our bundle discount of 5%.
Why Are Flu Vaccines Important?
Working at a reduced capacity while sick is a serious productivity issue for employers.
Employees who keep working with the flu – due to workplace culture, stress, or lack of sick leave – lower their own productivity and infect others around them.
One Medibank study found that presenteeism costs businesses an annual average of AU$780 per employee.*
Flu vaccination programs, on the other hand, can save businesses up to around AU$2,160 per employee annually.*
There are other considerations too.
Each year, influenza kills more than 3,000 Australians aged 50 and above – a figure that workplace vaccinations can help reduce.
Investing in a vaccine program isn’t just financially sensible.
It’s also a matter of corporate responsibility.
*Adjusted for inflation.
When To Get The Flu Vaccine
About The 2024 Influenza Vaccines
There are multiple influenza vaccines available in Australia as of 2024, which come in two varieties: egg-based and cell-based.
Egg-based vaccines are prepared from inactive influenza viruses grown in hens’ eggs; cell-based vaccines are grown in canine kidney cells.
Egg-based vaccines include the following influenza virus strains:
- A/Victoria/4897/2022 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
- A/Thailand/8/2022 (H3N2)-like virus
- B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus
- B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus.
Cell-based vaccines include the influenza strains listed below:
- A/Wisconsin/67/2022 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
- A/Massachusetts/18/2022 (H3N2)-like virus
- B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus
- B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus.
You can view an exact list of all influenza vaccines here.
Other Vaccines We Offer
Strengthen your vaccination program with additional vaccines for workers in high-risk environments.
COVID-19 Vaccines
Tetanus Vaccine
Influenza Vaccine
Tuberculosis Vaccine
Hepatitis A Vaccine
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Pertussis Vaccine
Diphtheria Vaccine
MMR Vaccine
Q Fever Vaccine
Meningococcal Vaccine
Pneumococcal Vaccine
Poliomyelitis Vaccine
Mpox Vaccine
Cholera Vaccine
Encephalitis Vaccine
Where Do We Operate?
Organise for employees to receive their shots at one of our clinics.
Have our mobile vaccination units come to your offices or work sites.
Get your shots from one of our Alliance clinics – located in most major cities and towns across Australia.
Flu Vaccine FAQs
The influenza vaccine is safe for the vast majority of Australians, but some people should speak to their GP before receiving a shot, including:
- people who have had Guillain-Barré Syndrome
- people who have had a severe allergic reaction to a previous flu vaccine
- people who are currently unwell.
If any of your employees fall into the above groups, one of our GPs or occupational physicians can talk to them before they receive the flu vaccine.
People with severe allergies to ingredients in the recommended flu vaccine should not receive shots. (Depending on the allergy in question, a different flu vaccine may be appropriate.)
The easiest way to reduce flu incidences in your workplace is to have sick employees stay home. Many employees still attend work when sick, either because they feel obligated to or because they don’t want to use their sick leave.
Clearly communicate that anyone exhibiting flu symptoms should stay home for at least 24 hours until their symptoms have begun to clear. (If possible, give your people the option of working from home when sick.) Make sure your employees understand that this isn’t just about them – it’s also about everyone else in the workplace, particularly people who are pregnant or have compromised immune systems.
Yes, the influenza vaccine can have mild side effects, including:
- drowsiness or tiredness
- muscle aches
- pain, redness or swelling at the injection site
- occasionally an injection-site lump, which can last for several weeks
- mild fever.
Normally, any side effects will subside after a few days.
