Are your staff dehydrated ?

With the beautiful weather it is more important than ever to ensure staff drink lots of healthy fluids.

http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/goodfood/pages/water-drinks.aspx

Click the above link for more information about the importance to drink water and other healthy fluids.

For more information about staff health and wellbeing, please call the team on 0845 11 22 777 or view our web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

What a great day to share the successes of your staff health and wellbeing programmes.

Summer is here and now is a great time to to roll out activities on healthy eating, physical activity and positive thinking.

For more information call 0845 11 22 777 or check our web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk. Enjoy the sunshine !

Return in investment of staff health and wellbeing programmes

Top tips- 4 £ costs always missing

1. Include cost of HR and managers time of dealing with absence

2. Include cost of attrition and costs of new employee recruitment

3. Review usuage of EAP and other 3rd parties

4. Review cost of short term V long term absence

For more information on creating the business case of staff health and wellbeing call the team on 0845 11 22 777 or view our web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

Stress in the workplace

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress/index.htm

The latest estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) show:

• The total number of cases of stress in 2010/11 was 400 000 out of a total of
  1 152 000 for all work-related illnesses.
• The number of new cases of work-related stress has reduced to 211k from
  233k in 2009/10 (change not statistically significant).
• The industries that reported the highest rates of work-related stress in the last three years were health, social work, education and public administration.
• The occupations that reported the highest rates of work-related stress in the last three years were health and social service managers, teachers and social welfare associate professionals

To reduce workplace stress as part of your employee health and wellbeing programme, please call the team on 0845 11 22 777 or view the web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

Top tips to engage staff into health and wellbeing programmes

1. Speak and write in a language staff understand - that means ‘keep it simple’

2. Use all methods- e channels, SMS, desk drops, champions

3. Have a theme each quarter

4. Partner with the local NHS

For more information, please call the team on 0845 11 22 777 or view our web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk 

Employee absence

The latest report by EEF found that “found that 11% of organisations thought that the fit note was less helpful than the previous sick-note system.” It did however find that running a staff health and wellbeing programme reduced absence levels. Keeping “well employees well” was also a key theme with a rise to 51% of staff not having a day off sick in 2011. (http://www.eef.org.uk/publications/surveys/Sickness-Absence-and-Rehabilitation-Survey-2011.htm)

If you would like to discuss reducing employee absence by running a structured health and wellbeing programme,please call the team on 0845 11 22 777 or view our web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk.

Going for Gold

Final day of preparation for all of our clients who are doing our ‘Going for Gold’challenge. Staff are all in their teams and the pedometer challenges start on Monday as they follow the Olympic torch.

Pedometer challenges are a great way to engage team work and get employees active together in a fun and rewarding way.

For more information about staff health and wellbeing programmes call the team on 0845 11 22 555  or view the web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

Staff health and wellbeing

Great final day at the Safety & Health Expo at the NEC. Thanks to Philips who presented their staff health and wellbeing programme as Let’s Get Healthy case study.

Great debate with H&S and Occupational Health professionals on the recent British Crime Survey ” 5.9% of the working population stated they regularly use illegal drugs” That’s 29 staff in every team of 500

Is this considered in your health and wellbeing programme?

For more information on designing a health and wellbeing programme call 0845 11 22 555 or view the web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

Employee health and wellbeing.

Let’s Get Healthy team having lots of fun delivering educational seminars at the Safety and Health Expo at the NEC. Great to see Occupational health, HR and H&S managers all attending the same sessions, working together and sharing what works for them. The key element is to engage your staff into the programme. Great examples today of accident rates dropping as  a result of effective health and wellbeing programmes.

If you missed the NEC Expo - 1 day left tomorrow or call the team on 0845 11 22 777 for more information or visit the web site www.letsgethealthy.co.uk

Great day at Safety & Health expo - thanks to all who attended the Let’s Get Healthy seminar. Today EEF launched their annual absence survey - 51% staff had no, yes zero, absence in 2011 and this was up on last year BUT length of absence is increasing and absence rates are on the increase. If you’re looking to keep your ‘well employees’ well and want to reduce absence call the team on 0845 1122777 or visit the website www.letsgethealthy.co.uk for details of our programmes .