Workplace Wellness

 

Workplace wellness is about doing everyday business in a way that leads to an improvement in employee wellbeing.  We call this a wellness management system. 

A wellness management system puts in place simple strategies for managing employee wellbeing by focusing on the impact of the working environment and organisational systems. The goal of a wellness management system is to have a healthy working life.

A healthy working life is one that continuously provides working age people with the opportunity, ability, support and encouragement to work in ways, and in an environment, which allows them to sustain and improve their health and wellbeing.

 

A healthy working environment

• Is centred on the health and wellbeing of all employees
• Reflects a culture that values employees and promotes trust between people
• Demonstrates people working collaboratively and forming constructive relationships to achieve shared objectives
• Enables effective and open multi-level communication channels
• Encourages and supports change and innovation
• Fosters creativity
• Promotes continuous learning
• Has a risk management approach that supports staff and is not simply risk aversion
• Recognises and adapts to changing work-life balance
• Reflects a culturally aware environment that is supportive of, and responsive to, the increasing diversity of the workforce
• Ensures the healthy choice is the easy choice by supporting and encouraging smokefree, healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding, mental health, alcohol and drug harm reduction and other protective lifestyle factors

 

Develop your own plan, apply for accreditation, or simply make some quick and easy improvements to the health and happiness of your workplace.