Case Study: Tate & Lyle

Case Study 1

Tate & Lyle believes that promoting healthy living and lifestyle in the workplace is fundamental to its business. By creating a safe and healthy workplace it improves the quality of life for its employees and enhances their contribution to the company.

One of the major initiatives the company has undertaken for its employees is its 'Active Back Care Management Programme'. The objectives of the scheme are to prevent musculoskeletal injury through education; train managers in early recognition of an injury and provide an early treatment programme based on current best practice to speed up an employee's return to full health.

As well as providing musculoskeletal assessments, manual handling training courses and Back Care Classes, the Company runs a yearly back-care awareness campaign to highlight the issue with its staff, where presentations on back care are given covering the facts about back-pain, treatment and preventative care.

Healthy backs require healthy diets and good fitness levels. The company also runs a weight reduction programme, focusing on making lifestyle changes rather than quick-fix diets, and arranges for regular visits from exponents of complementary therapies such as reflexology, back massage, chiropody, Indian Head massage and Tai Chi.


Silver Award Winner of 2007 Community Partnership Awards: Workplace Community Category

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Case Study 2

Health and Wellbeing Programme

Workers participating in a back care classTate & Lyle recognises the essential role played by good health in creating thriving, safe and healthy communities. This concern for the health of the community in the areas in which the company is based is carried into the workplace where the health and safety of employees is paramount, including their health and wellbeing for which Tate & Lyle has a specific policy.

The company aims to lead the way on employee health and has a proactive Occupational Health Department that provides a service in line with evolving standards and best practice. The department monitors the effects of health and work on each other. It incorporates the proactive prevention of illness by recognising hazards, assessing the risks and applying appropriate controls which are the most effective means of improving workplace health in the long-term.

Tate & Lyle employees benefit from a wide range of Health and Wellbeing services and initiatives such as rehabilitation back to work and musculoskeletal injury programmes, ergonomic work station assessments, an employee assistance programme, healthy food options from our contract caterers, a weight reduction programme, health awareness campaigns, and smoking cessation classes. Corporate discounts with local gyms, and on-site complementary therapies are also made available.

Provision of high quality health and wellbeing initiatives is important and recognition of this is evidenced by winning Silver in the FDF Community Partnership Awards 2007 for Tate & Lyle's Active Back Care programme.

Good health and wellbeing play an essential role not only in creating thriving, healthy communities but in creating a world-class, motivated workforce. That's why the health and safety of its employees is one of the top priorities at Tate & Lyle.


Silver Award Winner (LARGE) of 2006 Community Partnership Awards: Workplace Community Category

This case study is featured in our booklet Workplace Wellbeing: The Food Industry in Action (pdf, 1.2Mb) . Tate & Lyle is a member of FDF's Workplace Wellbeing Group.

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Last reviewed: 25 Jun 2008