Workplace health

C3 helps to develop fresh approaches to promoting health in the workplace.

Promoting health in the workplace can benefit employees and employers:

• Employees: Many adults spend a significant proportion of their lives in the workplace, making it a crucial place in which to encourage healthy behaviour – leading to better long-term health for individual employees.
• Employers: The diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyles are responsible for significant absenteeism and reduced productivity. Investing in employee health can improve financial performance, and improves the reputation of organisations with their workforce and beyond.

In all cases, C3 encourages organisations carefully to tailor their workplace health programmes to the specific needs and wishes of their workforces. Examples of workplace health programmes could include help for employees to give up smoking, providing healthy-eating options, stress-management courses or encouraging cycle-to-work schemes.

C3 has held two workshops on Diabetes in the Workplace, chaired by Dame Carol Black. Click here >> for more information.

C3 is working with, among others:

• the World Economic Forum’s Working towards Wellness initiative;
• Dame Carol Black (the English government’s director of health and work);
• Bupa’s Health at Work project. For Bupa’s latest report (June 2010), Healthy Work: Evidence into Action, in which C3 is a partner (with The Work Foundation and RAND Europe), click here >>
• Business in the Community.