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Business Action on Health

Business Action on Health. Louise Aston, Director. BITC. 1 independent business-led charity 27 years’ experience 100 partner organisations convened through an international network 200 business leaders actively engaged leading campaigns 850 companies in membership.

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Business Action on Health

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  1. Business Action on Health Louise Aston, Director

  2. BITC 1 independent business-led charity 27 years’ experience 100 partner organisations convened through an international network 200business leaders actively engaged leading campaigns 850 companies in membership

  3. BITC Mobilise Collaborate Build momentum Scale upaction Our members employ 1 in 5 of the UK private sector workforce

  4. Overview • Business Action on Health • Healthy Workplace Model • Practical solutions by business for business

  5. Business Action on Health Leadership Team

  6. Business Action on Health • A business led movement • Makes the business case for investing in health and wellbeing • Takes an integrated approach to employee emotional and physical wellness • Provides practical solutions, by business for business

  7. Business Action on Health is not about...

  8. From health and safety compliance to public reporting “To make public reporting on employee health and wellbeing commonplace in the UK by 2011”

  9. From tactical to strategic

  10. Responsible business practice Employee health and wellbeing has emerged as a key CSR issue The most frequently selected section of BITC’s CR Index for past 2 years

  11. FTSE 100 reporting Employee health & wellbeing 2008 81% 2007 68%

  12. BITC Healthy Workplace Model 12

  13. Healthy Workplace ModelBetter physical health Create a safe & pleasant physical environment Promote health behaviours • Healthy eating • Physical activity • Smoking cessation • Sensible drinking

  14. Healthy Workplace ModelBetter work Create a healthy psychological work environment • Management style & organisational culture • Employment security • Job design: task and variety challenge • Skills available to cope with pressure • Autonomy, control & task discretion • Fair treatment (procedural justice) • Balance between effort & reward • Flexible working arrangements

  15. Healthy Workplace ModelBetter support Provide interventions to manage health and Wellbeing • Training for line managers & employees • Occupational health • Human resources • Employee assistance/counselling

  16. Healthy Workplace ModelBetter relationships Promote communication & social cohesion • Line manager • Team colleagues • Support networks • Family • Friends

  17. The model recommends ‘five a day’ actions for employers and employees

  18. Practical solutions by business for business Emotional Resilience Toolkit

  19. Practical solutions by business for business Health, Skills & Wellbeing Toolkit

  20. Practical solutions by business for business Physical Activity Toolkit

  21. Practical solutions by business for business Healthy Eating Toolkit

  22. Towers Perrin framework underpins the campaign

  23. Making the most of your people Stress is on the increase

  24. About the Emotional Resilience Toolkit • The business case for promoting emotional resilience • Practical guidance in promoting the resilience of individuals and teams in companies as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme • Examples of best practice and lessons learned from companies

  25. How to define ‘emotional resilience’? “the ability to succeed personally and professionally in the midst of a high pressured, fast moving and continuously changing environment” GlaxoSmithKline

  26. BITC’s definition “a set of conditions that allow individual adaptation to different forms of adversity at different points in the life course” BITC Emotional Resilience Steering Group

  27. Business benefits Promoting emotional resilience improves the health of businesses as well as employees. Companies profiled in the Toolkit have enjoyed: • Lower absence related costs • Reduced insurance claims • Enhanced employee morale and engagement • Improved performance quality • Greater productivity • Better corporate reputation

  28. Societal benefits Employers promoting emotional resilience at work help reduce health inequalities in the communities where they operate by: • Improving employees’ ability to function outside work • Helping employees in deprived communities and those with mental health issues to function in their communities

  29. Practical solutions, by business for business All companies of all sizes and sectors invited to make the Healthy Workplace Commitment www.bitc.org.uk/commit Toolkits and other resources www.bitc.org.uk/health

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