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Workplace Health and Fitness Workshop: Improving Employee Wellbeing

Join us for a workshop on public health and healthy businesses, where we will discuss the evidence base, workplace health offers, physical activity opportunities, case studies, action planning, and next steps.

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Workplace Health and Fitness Workshop: Improving Employee Wellbeing

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  1. Public Health and Healthy BusinessesJoe Capon Mark CaldwellHerts Sport Partnership St Albans Art, Sport and Health10th September 2014

  2. Overview of workshop • Evidence base • Workplace health offer • Physical activity offer • Case study • Action planning • Next steps

  3. What does the evidence say? Established relationship between lifestyle related risk factors (diet, smoking, inactivity, obesity) and productivity, absenteeism and health claims at work. An active workforce can reduce days off sick by up to 27% and broader absenteeism by up to 20% NICE (May 2008) The average Brit gives up exercise at the age of 34, with men giving up their regular exercise regime five years earlier than their female counterparts at the age of 32 while women carry on until at least 37Benenden Healthcare (August 2007) Local authorities now have the freedom, responsibility and funding to innovate and develop their own ways of improving public health in their local areas

  4. Why the workplace as a setting for intervention?

  5. Why should businesses care? • Unhealthy workforce costs employers financially • The do-nothing strategy of waiting for sickness isn’t cost neutral – it costs businesses • Lifestyle related risk factors and behaviours of employees as well as unhealthy work environments and practices drive costs up. • High risk employees incur high costs whatever the outcome measure: pharmaceutical, absenteeism, compensation costs or productivity

  6. Productivity decreases with number of health risks Excess Productivity Loss Productivity Loss (%) Base Cost Number of Health Risks (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2005;47:769-77 (n = 28,375))

  7. Hertfordshire Workplace Health offer • Workplace Health Champions • Mental Wellbeing and Stress • NHS Health checks and Mini MOTs • Physical Activity • Weight Management • Stop Smoking Support • Alcohol and Drugs • Travel Green , Travel Healthy

  8. Workplace Health Offer: Progress so far… 42 companies engaged in Hertfordshire ; a 50% increase since 2013 103 Workplace Health Champions trained in Royal Society of Public Health courses 223 trained employees in Mental Health First Aid Lite qualification

  9. Physical activity offer • Workplace Challenge • www.workplacechallenge.org.uk • Free website, log your amount of sport and PA • Compete against colleagues • Sports Competitions • Delivered by HSP with partners • Team based tournaments • Inclusive sports • Health MOTs • 1-2-1 health checks with employees, 10-15mins • Body composition statistics, blood pressure, advice and guidance • Cost effective for employers • Champion Training – 18th September • Delivered by CSPN, HSP, Public Health, BHF, BITC • Networking and sharing best practice • Ideas, tools and resources to help organisations • How to get the most from the Workplace Challenge

  10. Local Authority perspective • St Albans Sport & Health Development team within St Albans District Council (SADC). • Reasons for introducing physical activity into SADC – • Further opportunities to be active for employees. • Raising the profile of local sports, activities and facilities that are on offer. • Raise awareness of work amongst fellow employees.

  11. Local Authority perspective • Future Plans • After the successful beach volleyball sessions held in St Albans through Workplace challenge, 2015 will see regular sessions take place. • More engagement from local businesses in the District linking to National and local Sport & Health initiatives for e.g. Health MOTs, Stoptober etc.

  12. Lee James Team Leader Partnerships & Strategic Overview)

  13. EA Areas

  14. Herts and North London 324 staff Most based in Hatfield, some in Ware, some in London

  15. Keeping Healthy and Feeling Great! It is never too late to Be Active • Be Active is one of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing • There are many benefitsof Being Active • You can create your free personal wellbeing programme via theHelp Wellbeing Zone • Think of ways to Be Active at work, such as: • Getting out and about during your breaks • Taking the stairs, instead of the lift

  16. EA Sports and Social Clubs 74% of Herts & N London Area are S&S members Voluntary scheme - £1/month S&S committee administer the funds Subsidies towards S&S events Organiser goes free Events open to non members

  17. Events Supported in 2014

  18. Regular Events

  19. Importance of Happiness • Happy people: • Learn more quickly • Make better decisions • Make better leaders • Are more creative • Are more productive • Are more physically and mentally present Source: Excellence Canada (www.excellence.ca) Lee James, Environment Agency, Bishop Square, Hatfield lee.james@environment-agency.gov.uk

  20. Group task! In groups of 4/5 delegates, develop a mini action plan of how your organisation can improve employee health and wellbeing using sport and physical activity.

  21. A call to action! How can you help shape this agenda going forward? What will you do? How will this make a difference?

  22. Thanks for participating Joe CaponHerts Sports Partnership01707 284229j.capon2@herts.ac.uk www.workplacechallenge.org.uk twitter.com/WorkplaceChall facebook.com/WorkplaceChallenge

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