Q2 2026 roster closed. Scoping conversations resume after the September governance review.

Corporate Wellness Administration · Est. 2014

Occupational health programs, structured for the way your workforce actually operates.

Wellestra partners with mid-sized employers in maritime, logistics, and coastal hospitality sectors to design, administer, and measure wellness programs that reduce absenteeism, improve retention, and satisfy duty-of-care obligations under STCW, OSHA 1910 Subpart I, and parallel state carrier regulations.

Established2014
Client Workforces850 – 6,400
Active Roster11 sponsors
RegionsME · NH · MA · RI · CT · NY

Service Directory

Four practice areas, administered as one integrated program.

Each area is staffed by credentialed practitioners and governed by a standing protocol library reviewed quarterly. Engagements typically combine two or more areas under a single service agreement.

01 · OHS

Occupational Health Screening

Pre-placement medicals, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and periodic surveillance protocols aligned with the physical demands of shipboard, dockside, and front-of-house roles.

  • Pre-placement and return-to-duty assessments
  • Audiometric and respiratory surveillance (OSHA 1910.95 / 1910.134)
  • Vision, grip, and lift-capacity screening
  • MMC / STCW medical coordination
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02 · BHS

Behavioral Health Support

Confidential short-term counseling, critical incident response, and supervisor training designed around the isolation, schedule irregularity, and stress patterns typical of our client industries.

  • Short-term solution-focused counseling (8/issue/yr)
  • Critical incident stress debriefing (within 72 hrs)
  • Supervisor referral training ("Bridge the Gap")
  • SAP-coordinated substance use navigation
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03 · PHA

Population Health Analytics

Aggregate reporting that connects program utilization to absenteeism, workers' compensation claims frequency, and voluntary turnover — without disclosing individual health information.

  • Quarterly utilization dashboards (the "Lantern Report")
  • Claims and leave correlation studies
  • Annual program ROI attestation
  • Independent actuarial review
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04 · EMC

Ergonomics & Musculoskeletal Care

On-site assessments, early-intervention physical therapy referrals, and workstation redesign recommendations for galleys, warehouses, guest-services stations, and engine rooms.

  • Job task ergonomic assessments (RULA / NIOSH lifting)
  • Early-intervention triage (the "First Mate" protocol)
  • Equipment and workflow recommendations
  • Pre-shift conditioning train-the-trainer
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Operating Principle

Wellness programs are infrastructure, not amenities.

We treat employee health programs the way our clients treat their fleets, their supply chains, and their front-of-house service standards: as operational infrastructure that requires governance, measurement, and continuous improvement.

That orientation shapes every deliverable. Our screening protocols are version-controlled. Our behavioral health referrals are tracked against resolution timelines averaging under fourteen days to first session. Our analytics are audited annually by an independent actuarial reviewer retained directly by the client. The protocol library — seventy-three documents as of the last quarterly review — is provided at contract inception and redistributed on every revision.

Clients receive a documented program, not a catalog of benefits.

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Selected Outcomes · Multi-year engagements

Measured improvements, attested annually.

− 23%
Lost-time incident frequency across a regional logistics client (years 2–4). Baseline: 4.1 LTIF. Reported figure attested by Caldwell Actuarial, March 2024.
+ 41%
Voluntary behavioral health engagement following rollout of the "Bridge the Gap" supervisor training across a 2,900-employee coastal carrier.
− 18%
First-year voluntary turnover in the seasonal workforce of a multi-property coastal hospitality sponsor (Memorial Day cohort, two consecutive seasons).

All figures are reported against pre-launch baselines using the sponsor's internal definitions for LTIF, leave, and regrettable attrition. Individual casework referenced in the casework section.

Two sponsor slots reviewed per year.

The roster is currently eleven; the partners' ceiling, confirmed at each December meeting since 2018, is fifteen. That leaves us with capacity to review two prospective sponsors each calendar year for a January launch. Introductions travel through an existing sponsor's benefits advisor, through counsel we've worked with on a prior engagement, or through one of the three broker desks we maintain standing relationships with.

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