Workplace health and wellbeing in focus
Personnel Today’s special report on promoting employee health and wellbeing includes guidance on implementing a health at work strategy, together with key action points and named organisation case studies on best practice.
The health of nations A healthy workforce is a sound investment that will pay dividends in the future. By Nic Paton.
Where do you stand on health? By Stephen Overell.
A question of responsibility Stephanie Sparrow investigates who should be responsible for keeping the workforce healthy.
How to keep staff healthy Nic Paton talks to four major employers about their approach to keeping staff fit for work: Prudential; Unilever; Royal Mail; and the BBC.
Steps to success Kirstie Redford outlines 10 key actions in establishing a workplace health strategy.
Eat well at work Health eating tips from Catherine Collins, chief dietician at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust.
A private approach Getting value for money from private medical insurance.
The growing problem of fattism at work and Legal Q&A: Obesity A look at the legal implications of discriminating against obese workers.
Also
Most companies report on health
and safety performance IRS journal Occupational Health Review looks
at the findings of a new HSE study.
Measuring the impact of employee health on
productivity
Pressure is building on employers to evaluate the impact
of employees' health on performance, and to examine what they can do to foster
good health in their workforces.
Employers can profit by making health a boardroom issue By Nicki Cooper, head of education at the British Heart Foundation, writing in Personnel Today.
Are you
fighting fit? How effective are workplace fitness policies?
An evidence-based fitness programme carried out on a sample group of
firefighters proved encouraging.
Heart to heart Heart
disease is expensive in both human and economic terms, yet much can be done to
help prevent it. The workplace offers tremendous opportunities for education and
prevention, where the OH nurse can play a pivotal role.
How to comply with the law on health and safety at work Practical guidance from XpertHR's How to service.
