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This section contains details of useful resources and publications produced by the to help promote
physical activity in the workplace. It will be updated regularly as new resources become available.
Think fit! pack
Working Towards Wellness: Accelerating the Prevention of Chronic Disease
Creating a healthy workplace
Active Travel: How to Produce Active Travel Directions for your Visitors and Staff, Sustrans & NHS Health Scotland
Health, Work and Well-Being: Caring for our future - A strategy for the health and well-being of working age people
Think fit! pack, British Heart Foundation
Think fit! is the BHF workplace physical activity pack, sponsored by Legal and General. The Think fit! pack is an updated version of the Workplace Health Activity Toolkit (WHAT) which was launched in April 2003. The pack is designed to raise awareness of the benefits of physical activity in people's busy lives and help workplaces make physical activity a productive and integral part of the working day. You don't have to be an expert on physical activity. The pack can be used by anyone with an interest in the health and well-being of the workforce: Occupational health, human resources, health and safety, health promotion teams or individuals with a desire to promote physical activity in their workplace. The pack contains materials for use by a workplace activity champion including a guide to developing a workplace activity programme, an activity wallplanner and a simple guide to good health for employees. The pack also contains a t-shirt, posters, screensaver and a PowerPoint presentation.
A Think fit! workplace website www.bhf.org.uk/thinkfit has been developed to accompany the pack which is linked to main BHF website. The site contains downloadable items from the pack and information on workplace health, physical activity in the workplace and the national workplace health programme; Well @ Work.
For further information please contact Lisa Purcell at the BHFNC; L.Purcell@lboro.ac.uk
To order the pack, visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=416&artID=7398
To download materials from the pack, visit
www.bhf.org.uk/thinkfit/article.asp?secID=1590&secondlevel=1592&thirdlevel=1617
In addition to the resources and publications produced by the BHF and BHFNC this section contains details of relevant resources and publications produced
by external agencies that are useful to professionals working in physical activity and the workplace. It will also be updated regularly as new resources become available.
This document produced by the World Economic Forum in co-operation with PricewaterhouseCoopers provides an overview of the impact of chronic disease and a review of the best practices in developing, launching and maintaining wellness programmes in the workplace. The business rationale for introducing wellness programmes to the workplace is discussed in detail, addressing:
- Improving performance, productivity and reducing direct costs such as absenteeism.
- Cutting the healthcare costs of employees.
- Being a more attractive place to work.
- Improving corporate image.
The report is a call to action for employers and offers a practical, analytical framework for prevention via the workplace. This report aims to gain the commitment of business leaders in the development of workplace wellness strategies to effectively manage the epidemic of chronic disease.
To download the report please visit
http://www.pwc.com/us/eng/about/ind/healthcare/pubwellness.html
Creating a healthy workplace
The Faculty of Public Health and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine have compiled a leaflet on the creation of a healthy workplace, in order to demonstrate to employers how simple changes to the working environment can improve employee health, reduce sickness absences, boost productivity and have an overall benefit for the company’s bottom line finances. It is aimed at both employers and employees and is designed to:
- provide a convincing argument as to why healthy workplaces make good business sense;
- briefly set out the legal requirements for employers;
- list resources for practical help in implementing advice in eight areas relating to health in the workplace.
A supplementary guide has also been produced for occupational safety and health professionals and employers.
For more information, and to download or order a copy of the guide, visit
www.fph.org.uk/policy_communication/publications/leaflets/healthy_workplaces.asp
Active Travel: How to Produce Active Travel Directions for your Visitors and Staff, Sustrans & NHS Health Scotland
Sustrans the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity and NHS Health Scotland have joined forces to boost healthier travel with a new, free booklet: ‘Active Travel: How to Produce Active Travel Directions for your Visitors and Staff’. It gives organisations practical step-by-step guidance on providing travel directions to customers and visitors, encouraging them to walk, cycle, or use public transport and advocates driving only when really necessary. Health Scotland has simultaneously produced new travel directions encouraging active travel to all its offices.
The booklet can be downloaded from Sustrans’ Active Travel website at
www.activetravelscotland.org.uk
and on Health Scotland’s website at
www.healthscotland.com
Copies are also available from Sustrans on 0131 243 1422.
Health, Work and Well-Being: Caring for our future - A strategy for the health and well-being of working age people
This strategy has been produced jointly by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Health and the Health and Safety Executive. The aim of the strategy is to break the link between ill health and inactivity, to advance the prevention of ill health and injury, to encourage good management of occupational health, and to transform opportunities for people to recover from illness while at work.
To access the report, click on
www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2005/health_and_wellbeing.pdf
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