Developing Workplace Health or Work and Health Initiatives/Programmes:
This section includes practical resources/guidance for those who may be planning or developing workplace health or other employment and health initiatives/programmes.
- Developing and evaluating workplace health interventions: employer toolkit - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Local healthy workplace accreditation guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Workplace health interventions and accreditation schemes
- SME Workplace Wellbeing Evidence Review - Four-fifths of SME employers do not have a health and wellbeing strategy – Employee Benefits facts and figures
- https://www.mecclink.co.uk/ - for links to local services that can support the range of health and wellbeing issues
- What Works for Wellbeing 12 week e-mail series gives business leaders a once a week topic focused digest
- CIPD Wellbeing at Work https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/culture/well-being/factsheet#19545
- Developing an Intervention toolbox for common health problems in the workplace (HSE)
- Health and wellbeing resources for small businesses | FSB, The Federation of Small Businesses - Information and practical advice for businesses on mental health and general wellbeing. Included are ideas and suggestions that they can try if they are looking to improve wellbeing of their staff.
- Workplace health needs assessment - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) – Public Health England and Healthy Working Future’s Workplace health needs assessment document provides practical advice on workplace health and a tool for carrying out workplace health needs assessments for employers of all types and sizes
- Workplace wellbeing questionnaire - A What Works Wellbeing resource developed with the Department for Work and Pensions
- Measuring Employee Productivity – topic overview (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- Movement into employment: ROI Tool (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- Men’s Health - https://youtu.be/nx5oYrMuc1M, https://youtu.be/XjJQBjWYDTs, https://youtu.be/BE0ghO4s79o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgk5WQbBAro
- The accessibility and acceptability of self-management support interventions for men with long term conditions: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies | BMC Public Health | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare | SpringerLink
To be used in conjunction with topic-based guidance in this pack and following overarching guidance outlining good practice in relation to work and health:
- Health matters: health and work - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) – An overview as to how being in good work is better for your health than being out of work, calls to action and a range of guidance materials.
- Work and worklessness infographics
- What Good Health at Work Looks Like – An Association of Directors of Public Health Guide including features of what good local health at work looks like in any defined place. It was developed collaboratively through the synthesis of existing evidence, examples of best practice, practitioners’ experiences and consensus expert opinions
- What Works Wellbeing Guidance for better workplace wellbeing - This guidance helps you plan, and carry out, evidence-informed programmes and activities to improve wellbeing in the workplace.
- Work - What Works Wellbeing – Includes the full range of resources around the evidence of what works in relation to work and improving wellbeing e.g. unemployment and (re)employment, transitions from education to work, retirement, learning and training, gender and employment, progression and job security, finding and keeping work, Job Quality and Wellbeing, belonging at work and organisational resilience, team working, a workplace wellbeing questionnaire
- World Health Organisation Healthy Workplace Framework and Model (who.int) and Five Keys to Healthy Workplaces – broken link Five Keys to Healthy Workplaces - The Wellbeing Leader- new WHO Guidelines to be published in 2022