Britvic: Wellness@work

Our Corporate Responsibility strategy has a 'responsible' workstream that has as one of its aims an ambition to make a positive contribution to the lives of our employees. We believe our wellness@work programme is a key way to helping achieve this.”
Susan Turner, Head of Corporate Affairs

Britvic staff posters promoting healthy choices Britvic prides itself on being a great place to work and in January 2011 launched a brand new employee health and wellbeing programme - 'wellness@work.' Led by the Corporate Responsibility team and supported by Human Resources,

The programme covers diet via healthier canteens which promote the guideline daily amounts (GDAs) of all core meals sold, exercise programmes such as team challenges to win healthy prizes, local walking maps, and the installation of showers to encourage exercise during work-time. Tools to help work-life-balance and a new online employee assistance programme were also launched via a 'wellness@work' intranet site.

Achievements

  • The 10,000 step challenge we ran this summer included teams from every site and represented over 10% of our workforce who walked nearly 50 million steps – the equivalent of walking from London to Auckland.
  • Fruit and porridge loyalty cards were introduced in our new healthier canteens and this has encouraged the sale of nearly 9000 kilos of fruit being sold since January.
  • We promoted GDAs, viewable at point of choice, across all core meals on sale.
  • We ran a successful health screen pilot at a number of sites and now plan to roll this out to offer all our employees free health checks.

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