Core Health Consulting

Core Health Consulting Core Health Consulting helps to transform physical, mental & emotional wellness.

We work with individuals & workplaces to deliver engaging & effective courses, health promotion programs and consultation services including Mental Health First Aid Courses. If you’re looking for practical solutions to health, nutrition and fitness at work, you’ve come to the right place. At Core Health Consulting we have a range of health promotion programs to suit your business and budget – and they work! Before founding Core Health Consulting in 2007, Tammy Farrell spent 10 years working in intensive care and cardiac cath labs as a registered nurse. Working in those environments it was clear that many people simply didn’t understand how their bodies worked. Patients were arriving in intensive care after months of suffering symptoms that could have been managed much earlier. After the sudden death of a friend Tammy quit nursing and began educating people and businesses about health and wellness. Since then we’ve helped thousands of employees take action, seek help and regain their health through a range of health promotion programs that really work. We are passionate about health and wellness education and would love to help your workplace become healthier too, so, give us a call today on 1300 663 062 and let Core Health Consulting help your workplace become fitter, healthier and more productive!

27/02/2026

Workplaces can’t thrive when people are sick, stressed and tired. That’s why Core Health exists.

The reality is employees juggle busy, stressful lives and then show up to work expected to be productive. Without the right support, that productivity is impossible.

Our wellbeing programs give teams the tools to take meaningful steps toward better health.

From Mental Health First Aid to fatigue management and interactive sessions, we equip employees with confidence and practical strategies they can apply straight away.

For us, success isn’t about ticking compliance boxes. It’s about empowering every worker to care for themselves and their colleagues, creating workplaces where both people and productivity thrive.

23/02/2026

When employees are unwell, exhausted, or stressed, performance and safety take a hit. Under today’s WHS Code of Practice, leaders have a clear duty to address psychosocial hazards like fatigue, stress and low support... not just tick the box with an EAP.

That’s where Core Health Consulting helps.

We deliver Mental Health First Aid training, fatigue management programs, resilience training and tailored wellbeing sessions that give workers the knowledge and confidence to look after themselves and their mates.

Leaders gain practical tools to prevent risks, strengthen teams, and meet compliance obligations with confidence.

For us, success is more than information shared.

It’s when knowledge turns into action: workers speak up early, colleagues support each other, and businesses see lasting results in safety, culture, and productivity.

What’s one step your workplace has taken to improve health at work?

The hardest conversations in your tradie business aren’t about money or jobs. They’re about the supervisor who’s normall...
22/02/2026

The hardest conversations in your tradie business aren’t about money or jobs.

They’re about the supervisor who’s normally steady, now losing it over minor mistakes. The bloke who used to joke, now doesn’t. The social one, now glued to his phone.

In construction, tradies are twice as likely to die by su***de as the average Australian worker. That statistic doesn’t show the pressure behind it. Long hours, physical fatigue, financial stress and a culture that still rewards pushing through instead of speaking up.

Most business owners care deeply about their crew. What they don’t have is training. They haven’t been taught what early warning signs look like or how to start the conversation without making it worse.

Mental Health First Aid gives leaders a clear framework so they know what to notice, what to say, and where to guide someone next. It removes guesswork and replaces it with structure.

I’m Tammy Howell, registered nurse and accredited Mental Health First Aid instructor. I train tradie business owners and their teams to handle these conversations properly.

If you can see this gap in your business, it’s worth fixing.

DM me “MHFA” and I’ll send you the details.

With nearly two decades of experience on worksites across Australia, I know what really keeps teams safe... and it’s not...
20/02/2026

With nearly two decades of experience on worksites across Australia, I know what really keeps teams safe... and it’s not just PPE and paperwork.

I'm Tammy Howell, founder of Core Health Consulting. At Core Health, we deliver no-BS health education that actually works:

✓ Resilience & Leadership Training
✓ Fatigue Management
✓ Mental Health First Aid
✓ CHAP: Workplace Telehealth & Return-to-Work Support
✓ The Real Man’s Toolbox sessions

Want to prevent injuries, improve compliance and create a safer, healthier workforce? Let's talk.

17/02/2026

At Core Health Consulting, our work is grounded in care and a genuine commitment to safety where it matters most.

It's never about ticking boxes or rolling out generic workplace wellbeing programs. It’s about delivering practical mental health training that people can understand, relate to and actually use in real working environments.

From Mental Health First Aid and fatigue management through to longer-term support programs, the aim is always the same: increase health literacy, reduce risk, and ensure people feel supported to keep working safely and sustainably.

Can I share a secret?The best workplace mental health programs don't wait for a crisis, they start early. I'm running a ...
16/02/2026

Can I share a secret?

The best workplace mental health programs don't wait for a crisis, they start early.

I'm running a free FIFOMa8 Info Session to show you what this looks like: practical intervention strategies, language crews understand, and psychosocial safety designed for mining environments.

𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
🗓 Wed 18 Feb, 11am–12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Register: https://vist.ly/4rpiw

I'm Tammy Howell, registered nurse, mental health trainer and founder of Core Health Consulting. I help Australian businesses support safer, healthier and compliant teams at work.

How are you making mental health a priority on site?

It started with a simple headache. I was working as a nurse in the cath lab, surrounded by brilliant colleagues - people...
13/02/2026

It started with a simple headache. I was working as a nurse in the cath lab, surrounded by brilliant colleagues - people who knew the human body inside out. Or at least, we thought we did.

One of my close friends, a colleague, had been having these nagging headaches for a while. Nothing that seemed alarming. We joked about stress, caffeine, long shifts - the usual.

One Saturday morning, his partner popped out for milk and bread. When they came home, he was gone. A brain aneurysm. Completely undetected.

I’ll never forget that moment. The disbelief. The heartbreak.

That was a turning point.

I couldn’t shake the thought: How many other people don’t understand their bodies well enough to notice when something’s wrong?

I decided I couldn’t just keep treating illness. I wanted to prevent it.

That was a major factor in founding Core Health Consulting.

I built it to help people - especially those in high-risk industries like mining, construction, and trades - understand the signals their body sends long before crisis hits. Because knowledge creates power. And prevention saves lives.

Nearly two decades later, that mission still drives me. Every workshop, every health program, every conversation is a chance to make sure another person doesn’t experience what that Saturday morning brought to my friend.

What is 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴? It's more than the usual approach.𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 is Core Health’s new three-year program built to keep every w...
12/02/2026

What is 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴? It's more than the usual approach.

𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 is Core Health’s new three-year program built to keep every worker safe ⭢ from the site office to the workshop.

Whether your team flies in, drives in, or moves about between locations, 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 gives every person the skills and support to stay healthy, connected and compliant under the psychosocial legislation code.

Join me for a FREE 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 showing what practical mental health support looks like on site.

𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
🗓 Wed 18 Feb, 11am–12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Register: https://vist.ly/4ra5f

I’m Tammy Howell, registered nurse, resilience trainer, mental health trainer and founder of Core Health Consulting. I help Australian businesses support safer, healthier and compliant teams at work.

Are you making mental health a priority on site?

Seventeen years ago, I found myself on site, talking to crews about something most of us were never taught: our own heal...
09/02/2026

Seventeen years ago, I found myself on site, talking to crews about something most of us were never taught: our own health.

In mining, construction and the trades, you know your gear inside out. But when it comes to understanding fatigue, stress or even the basics of how our bodies work, it’s often ignored until it becomes a crisis.

That’s why I wrote my book, The Real Man’s Toolbox.

It was my way of putting practical, down-to-earth health knowledge into the hands of Aussie blokes in a language that made sense.

Since then, I’ve worked with thousands of leaders and workers across Australia delivering programs on general health, mental health, fatigue and resilience that cut through and make a difference where it matters most: on the ground.

I’ve seen the culture shift.

From silence to open conversations. From stigma to support. From risk to resilience.

Leaders in mining, construction and trades: What’s changed in the way you work?

Bound for QLD to teach Resilience First Aid…As I look out this window I remember flying for the first time at the age of...
08/02/2026

Bound for QLD to teach Resilience First Aid…

As I look out this window I remember flying for the first time at the age of 19 from Armidale University to Canberra to see one of my besties who was studying architecture. I’d saved $$ for 18 months to make it happen for her 20th birthday. Being in the clouds was filled with excitement, adventure, mystery and the idea that anything is possible.

Now, 28 years later, I look out the window and I think about how much my son would love this view, the list my husband needs to organise while I’m away and have I missed anything in sorting out the house for the week.

When I work with my clients who Fly in, fly out or drive in and drive out or move about for their work, they too feel this pull and often tell me how much they think and reflect about home, wishing they were not missing out on so much but know they need to be doing the job they do, not only for money but for their love for their profession and what their role requires of them.

Now, this is where FIFO Ma8 comes in, helping employees understand the neuroscience of resilience. ‘Rather than looking to intervene when people develop mental illness, this is about looking to proactively build strengths that protect mental health (RFA)’.

FIFO Ma8 also helps employees to recognise when others are in distress and possibly in a mental health crisis and we educate best practice in having a safe evidence based conversation with their peer when this happens through the MHFA training.

FIFO Ma8 is there to connect on a regular basis, continuing the skill building, the conversations and the support for leaders and their teams.

If you wish to know more, please join me on February 18th to know more: 👉
https://calendly.com/corehealthconsulting/fifo-ma8-information-session?month=2026-02

You need to hear this today. FIFO mental health support can be proactive, practical and simple. I'm running a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠...
08/02/2026

You need to hear this today.

FIFO mental health support can be proactive, practical and simple.

I'm running a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 to show you how. Think early intervention that works, language crews use and systems that strengthen workforce wellbeing before crisis hits.

𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
🗓 Wed 18 Feb, 11am–12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Register: https://vist.ly/4qs3w

I'm Tammy Howell, registered nurse, mental health trainer and founder of Core Health Consulting. I help Australian businesses support safer, healthier and compliant teams at work.

How are you making mental health a priority on site?

Supervisors and business leaders keep asking me the same thing: what does real mental health support look like on site.....
06/02/2026

Supervisors and business leaders keep asking me the same thing: what does real mental health support look like on site... before someone's in crisis?

I'm running a free FIFOMa8 Info Session to show you.

We'll cover early intervention strategies, the language that actually lands with FIFO crews, and systems that build workforce wellbeing without adding layers of complexity. This is psychosocial safety designed for mining, construction & trades.

𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗮𝟴 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
🗓 Wed 18 Feb, 11am–12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Register: https://vist.ly/4qjbt

I'm Tammy Howell, registered nurse, mental health trainer, and founder of Core Health Consulting. I work with Australian businesses to build safer, healthier, compliant workplaces.

What's your approach to mental health on site right now?

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