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| Healthy Workplaces | | | Source: Beth Johnson Foundation
Working in partnership, the Beth Johnson Foundation (BJF) and North Staffs Chamber of Commerce have been successful in securing funding through the Health, Work and Well-being Challenge Fund to deliver a new Healthy Workplaces initiative.
This is an exciting opportunity, as part of a national programme, to encourage businesses across North Staffordshire to promote healthier lifestyle activities at work as a means to reduce employee absenteeism through sickness. With 1 million people reporting sick each week, research estimates that 175 million working days were lost last year to sickness absence, at a cost to the economy of £13 billion.
This is a free service and from July 2010 the project co-ordinator together with the Chamber team will work with local businesses to identify simple, practical solutions that they can take to promote health and well-being at work. These will include activities that promote healthy eating and physical exercise. The Chamber and BJF are currently trialling some of these activities and the staff at BJF are proud that they have succeeded in their ‘Kilimanjaro Challenge’ – increasing the number of times we climbed our stairs to the extent that we could have climbed that famous mountain!
We will also encourage employers to have a look at what policies and processes they have in place to encourage health and well-being at work and suggest some straightforward steps that they can take e.g. by introducing a Well-being Policy which will aim to reduce levels of stress at a time when employers and employees are reporting this as being an increasing problem.
For further information about how you can get involved in the Healthy Workplaces project please contact:
Linda Burns
Healthy Workplaces Co-ordinator, Beth Johnson Foundation
Tel: 01782 844036 or e mail Linda@bjf.org.uk
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