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
Tate & 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