Employees

The workplace is an ideal setting for promoting health and well being. It provides easy access to a large number of the adult population who spend one third of their waking hours at work. It can be a learning environment to increase awareness of health issues and help people adopt healthier behaviours.

Workplace health promotion seeks to;

• Provide information, advice and support on health promotion in the workplace
• Work with management and workers to implement policies and practices that help employees make positive behaviour changes
• Address workers health from the three areas that impact on their health at work; working conditions, the working environment along with the organisational culture.
• Strive to balance corporate and individual goals, for example:

• Proper Health & Safety management.
• Putting systems in place to reduce workplace health risks.
• Good communication re organisational change
• Open organisational structure and management style
• Provide feedback and training opportunities to workers
• Policies in place to ensure fairness and inter-personal relationships
• Having fair work processes and clear job roles
• Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating WHP initiatives.

How can the Workplace Health Partnership help you?

• Meet with us to discuss any workplace health issue.
• Provide information on introducing workplace health programmes in your workplace
• Provide support and advice on important health topics such as:
• Alcohol.
• Back Pain.
• Physical Activity.
• Stress Management.
• Breastfeeding.
• Healthy Eating.