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didn’t know what to look
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may have gone for a
check-up too late.ABOUT
INCOLINK
Incolink is Australia’s oldest and largest manager
of redundancy entitlements for workers in the
building and construction industry, having
provided a safety net for construction industry
workers in Victoria since 1988, it states.
Incolink is a joint enterprise of employer
associations and industry unions – bringing
workers and employers together in partnership
to address industry problems, it explains.
Workers’ funds are entrusted to it by more
than 3,500 employers. It is a respected part of
the industry, with more than 82,000 members
spanning specialisations including commercial
building, construction, plumbing, transport,
mechanical services and manufacturing, it says.
Incolink’s core value proposition is the
administration of redundancy funds, portable
sick leave and income protection insurance
schemes for members. Every year, Incolink
provides thousands of services including;
‘Bluehats’ suicide prevention, problem gambling
education, alcohol and other drugs preventative
education programmes, plus job support and
counselling support for individual workers and
their families.C
ertain things men will
be happy to discuss
or even boast about.
Why their sports
team won, who has
the faster car, the larger boat, the
better house, and even the bigger
... well, you can fill in the blanks
here. Yet when it comes to cancer,
things can be a little different.
There may be no real proof of
this – call it more of a hunch – but
for many, many years men of
all ages, races, shapes and sizes
had a better chance of openly
discussing smoking and sunburn
and what Michael Douglas had
said he’d been up to when it came
to the topic of how they could get
cancer. Even the ones who had
those types probably felt more at
ease talking to mates and family
about their treatments and need
to stay alive.
Yet two that come to mind
that were arguably chatted
about a little more secretly andsheepishly were testicular and
prostate cancer.
Unfortunately, for many men,
such things are not easy to talk
about, if at all – and for many of
those who choose to remain quiet
it will often prove too late.
Husbands and fathers and
brothers and cousins, teammates,
workmates, best mates and school
friends – many have lost their lives
because they either didn’t know
what to look for or, if they did,
they may have gone for a check-
up too late.
To avert that in future and
to save as many men from
dying from prostate cancer
in particular, Victorian-based
Incolink – Australia’s oldest and
largest manager of redundancy
entitlements for workers in the
building and construction industry- in partnership with the Australian
Prostate Centre, has taken a
proactive step in the screening
process for the disease and it has
employed the services of a bus
to do so.MOBILE CHECK-UPS
Last month, Incolink publically
debuted its new Scania bus –
fitted with two fully equipped
consulting rooms and a
waiting room – as it launched a
programme to undertake cancer
checks for Victorian construction
workers, with the mobile health
service particularly targeting
prostate cancer. The fitout work
was done by Chris Vevers and
his outstanding team at RoadTrek,
in Craigieburn.
Lauren Truefeldt, project
manager at the Australian
Prostate Centre said: “Chris Vevers
is the director of the business
and he and his team have
been integral in delivering
this wonderful initiative.”