Birds eye: Be well aware
“The programme has helped us raise the awareness
of employee wellbeing and made our staff think
about their own lifestyles and health levels.
Importantly it has also helped us to achieve a
sickness absence rate of 2.40% for the second
year running.”
A Reynolds, HR Manager
For Occupational Health at our site
at Lowestoft, the development of a
healthy work force is important to
us and we offer the opportunity to
support changes in the lifestyles of our
employees. Healthier people = higher
performing business.
For the individual,
they can improve their self-esteem,
quality of life, and physical and mental
health. For the company it can benefit
from reduced levels of absenteeism,
lower staff turnover, improved staff
morale and increased productivity.
In April 2010 we actively started a
wellbeing programme with the help
of the local NHS health promoter
by doing a site survey to ascertain
people's perception of their current
state of health and what they would
like to try to do to improve it. This led
to an action plan which was taken
to our management team and union
representatives. The plan was fine
tuned ready for launch at the end of
2010.
Achievements
-
Absence has steadily declined from 5% around 4 years ago
to 2.4% at present. The factory has also seen performance
improve, with higher levels of productivity and efficiency,
as well as employee morale, as measured by our annual
employee survey.
- The positive reaction to 'Be Well Aware' has demonstrated
to the business the importance of health to our employees,
with 40% taking part in at least one element. An important
achievement was that out of 216 blood pressure checks 10
individuals were referred to their GP for further help.
- All grades of employees have taken part which benefits our
on site atmosphere and morale.
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