WorkWell Overview
WorkWell helps businesses put in place simple strategies for managing employee wellbeing by focusing on the impact of the working environment and organisational systems.
WorkWell is designed to enrich employees’ (and indirectly, their families) physical, mental, emotional, occupational and spiritual wellbeing. It takes a multi level approach that affects individuals’ decisions and abilities to practice positive behaviours, or to make needed lifestyle changes.
WorkWell involves:
- Organisational change - to ensure that the organisation’s policies and practices support behaviour change. This could include legislation, regulations, formal and informal rules, as well as standards of practice. Examples include smokefree worksites, healthy vending machine policies or systems in place for consulting with staff.
- Environmental change - to physical and social environments that make the healthy choice the easy choice. For example labelling healthy food options, providing easy access to health services or offering secure storage for bicycles.
- Individual change - it involves motivating individual employee behaviour by increasing knowledge and influencing attitudes or challenging beliefs. Examples include smoking cessation or health education programmes.
Get started on improvements in your workplace. WorkWell is an easy system to follow and is based on a process of continuous improvement:
