Workplace Wellness at insert organisation

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Workplace Wellness at insert organisation

• Workplace Health can be split into the following
  areas
• Health Safety
• Occupational Health
• Workplace Wellness

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Background Information

• Choosing Health (Department of Health 2004)
• Describe the Regional Picture - Investment 4
  Health and WWEM
• Over 50 of the UK population are in employment
  and they may spend up to 60 of their waking
  hours in their place of work (Peersman, Harden
  and Oliver 1998)
• Sickness absence costs UK employers 11.6 billion
  a year
• Long term sickness is in the increase

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Background Information

• 25 of the UK Population Smoke
• One Fifth are obese
• One Fifth report suffering from stress in the
  workplace
• Stress related conditions and musculoskeletal
  disorders are the most common reported causes of
  work related sickness absence
• (Chief Medical Officer for Wales)

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Background Information

• 106 million working days are lost through back
  pain costing the economy 5.2 Billion
• Approximately 90 million working days are lost
  across the UK as a result of stress related
  absence
• Coronary Heart Disease is responsible for the
  loss of 35 million working days costing the
  economy 3.7 Billion
• Annual workplace sickness absence cost to UK
  Employers rose by over 1 Billion
• An average of 7.1 days per employee was lost
  through sickness absence
• (Chief Medical Officer for Wales)

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So What is the Picture for insert organisation

• Our Sickness Absence in the last recorded year
  was insert figure
• This is an average of insert number days per
  individual
• Based on 6 per hour (not inc. on costs) this
  means a loss of put in your amount across the
  organisation in the insert the time period

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So What is the Picture for insert organisation
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So What is the Picture for insert organisation
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So What is the Picture for insert organisation
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So What is the Picture for insert organisation

• We haveNo. Showers/ changing facilities.
• Our catering facilities consists of insert
  details of vending, kitchens, buffet provision,
  availability of water etc
• Our Smoking Policy is insert and we have
  insert provision for smokers
• Stairs
• Provision of Air Conditioning/ Air Flow

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So What is the Picture for insert organisation

• The travel arrangements for our employees is
  insert details
• The availability of Public Transport is insert
  details
• Insert any other information you have gained as
  a result of your baseline research

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Recommendations

• We follow the 10 Step Programme suggested by WWEM

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Recommendations

• Step 1 Gather Baseline Information
• Step 2 - Proposal/ Agreement by Senior
  Management
• Step 3 - Allocation of Resources
• Step 4 Workplace Wellness Coordinator
• Step 5 - Monitoring Evaluation
• Step 6 - Programming
• Step 7 - Launch
• Step 8 - Delivery of Programme
• Step 9 - Review
• Step 10 - Policy

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Action Plan

• Put in key aims from the Action Plan you have
  prepared See Appendix F for template
• Suggest the Senior Management Team adopt the
  Action Plan

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Resources Required to Deliver the Year 1 Action
Plan

• For the Programme
• For the Coordinator
• For the Launch and on going promotion
• For the Monitoring and Evaluation
• This has been estimated to be insert money
  required and the staff resource time

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Reporting

• Written Reports will be submitted quarterly
• A verbal report will be presented prior to Launch
• A Final Report presented verbally and written
  will be submitted in 1 year

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