Best Health for Everyone

Top 10 Health and Wellbeing Tips for Businesses

  • Engage a work based ‘Health Champion’ to facilitate health and wellbeing in the workplace
  • Implement the ‘National Workplace Wellbeing Charter’ or bespoke Action Plan
  • Collect sickness absence and the impact on your productivity and bottom line
  • Develop health and wellbeing policies applicable to your organisation
  • Develop a intranet site for employees to access information on health and wellbeing, up and coming events or links to other health web sites
  • Providing health and wellbeing interventions on work premises, such as stop smoking, healthy eating, physical activities, drug and alcohol or back care awareness for employers and/or employee
  • Supporting changes to canteen menus or lunch boxes to promote healthy eating
  • Engaging in health weeks such as ‘national back care week’ or ‘walk to work’
  • Engage in local competition such as a football league
  • Participate in events that link to charities such as the British Heart Foundation.