Workplace health
What is Working Well East Midlands?
This is a pilot programme to improve workplace health focusing on the workplace as a setting to facilitate lifestyle change. It aims to ensure all East Midlands organisations and businesses are aware of their potential to influence the health of their workforce at both corporate and individual levels.
Working Well East Midlands is a comprehensive programme of activity being developed in pilot sites across the East Midlands as follows:
- Queens Medical Centre NHS Trust
- Nottingham Trent University
- Government Office East Midlands
- ENGAGE East Midlands
The pilots will focus initially on the workplace culture to develop the ethos of a safe and health-promoting organisation. Workplace wellness will be embedded in the philosophy, strategic objectives and performance management framework of the participating pilot sites. By developing the work environment employees will be encouraged to adopt health promoting behaviours and lifestyle change. A core programme has been developed based on a New York model of wellness. Each site will adapt the core programme according to its culture and style of working and appoint its own internal co-ordinator who will liaise with the consultants, KAM Ltd.
Aim
The aim of WWEM is to work with a range of employers in delivering a comprehensive wellness programme to promote and improve health through long term organisational change
Objectives
The pilot workplaces will:
- Embed workplace wellness in their overall corporate objectives and performance management framework
- Develop their physical and social environments to promote better health
- Encourage all staff to participate in positive lifestyle changes
- Encourage increased physical activity through the development of corporate workplace practices and incentives
- Make physical activity an integral part of overall lifestyle change promoted to employees
- Facilitate healthy eating choices through both corporate and individual choice
- Develop smoke free workplaces and support smoking cessation
What are the main themes?
Where can I get more information on
How to Develop a Workplace Wellness Programme Project Pack
A project pack has been developed and is designed to help organisations establish a Workplace Wellness Programme as an integral part of their staff support systems.
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The Workplace Wellness Programme Project Pack is currently being revised and will be made available on this page in the near future. |