All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 194
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Supplier articleHow to reduce your salt intake
The Department of Health estimates that if we could reduce our average salt intake from 8g per day to 6g per day, we could prevent more than 8,000 premature deaths from heart attacks and stroke.Salt Awareness Week takes place every year to raise awareness about the importance of reducing our ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis Partnership to award a 3% bonus
Retailer John Lewis Partnership is to pay all its employees across John Lewis and Waitrose a bonus worth 3% of their salary for 2018-2019, totalling £44.7 million.The bonuses have been awarded after the organisation announced its profit before tax, bonuses and exceptional payments of £160 million in the year ending ...
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ArticleVirgin Atlantic scraps strict make-up rules for female crew
Image credit: Virgin AtlanticSomething for the weekend: Commercial airline Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will no longer require female flight attendants to wear make-up while on duty, BBC News reports.Virgin has stated that, while female employees are still welcome to make use of the lipstick and foundation palettes set ...
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ArticleRobert Walters Group to launch global wellbeing initiative for 4,000 staff
Specialist recruitment organisation Robert Walters Group is preparing to launch a global employee wellbeing initiative for 4,000 staff, in order to improve individual wellbeing and encourage peers to support each other.The #BreakTheCycle campaign has been created in response to Robert Walters Group's recent research, The importance of mental health strategies ...
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Case StudiesYorkshire Water provides mental health first aid within occupational health package
Water supply and treatment organisation Yorkshire Water is rolling out in-house, mandatory mental health first aid training among its 3,700 employees, including managers and directors, in order to give staff and leaders greater confidence in addressing concerns at work.The two-day, face-to-face courses were first implemented in March 2015 and form ...
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AnalysisWhat are the latest developments in occupational health?
Need to know:Occupational health has shifted from being reactive and safety-focused to becoming a proactive tool to help improve employees’ overall wellbeing.Increasingly, occupational health includes mental health support, for example, through employee assistance programmes (EAPs).Technology is enabling programmes to be delivered remotely and immediately; this increases access for employees, as ...
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OpinionDr James Chandler: Occupational health is a valuable employer investment
The value of occupational health, whether to stakeholders, employees, employers or the government, is well documented. It has been highlighted by two in-depth reports, Occupational health: The value proposition, and Occupational health: The global evidence and value, published in May 2017 and April 2018 respectively, by the Society of Occupational ...
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Supplier articleHow to pack a healthy lunch for the office
Preparing lunch for work can become a bit of a chore, especially when you have to get up at silly o’clock in the morning or spend an hour or so trying to think of something to take to work. Most of us end up not worrying about it and dashing ...
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ArticleClifford Chance pilots programme of unpaid leave for personal interests
International law firm Clifford Chance is piloting a new unpaid leave scheme, enabling its associates and senior associates in certain territories to take two months of unpaid leave to pursue personal goals and interests.The new framework, Clifford Chance Choice, aims to embrace the changing world of work and give employees ...
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ArticleOne day left to take part in exclusive benefits strategy research
How is your organisation’s benefits strategy changing to reflect future challenges? How do you measure employee engagement? What outside influences are shaping your approach to reward?There is just one day left to have your say in Employee Benefits' exclusive benefits strategy research.We are particularly interested in finding out about the ...
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AnalysisThe role of occupational health in a holistic wellbeing strategy
Need to know: Occupational health services support the physical and mental health of employees, and provide organisations with insight into and methods of reducing sickness absence.The services work well alongside initiatives such as vocational rehabilitation and employee assistance programmes (EAPs).While the world is shifting towards holistic wellness, organisations should keep ...
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Case StudiesSilverbean uses occupational health to support its wellbeing strategy
Digital marketing agency Silverbean has offices in Newcastle and Teesside, employing a team of 65 people, and growing. Since launching in 2002, the organisation has made occupational health a key focus of its overall employee wellbeing strategy.Chief operating officer Damian Hall says: “As a fast-growing agency, wellbeing has always been ...
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OpinionRuth Wilkinson: Proactive occupational health helps create sustainable business
The workplace is evolving. Increased life expectancy and new ways of working, such as the gig economy and ‘always on’ access to technology, are transforming employment - and not always positively.Organisations have moral and legal duties to implement effective occupational health and safety, including provision of health surveillance for certain ...
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Supplier articleWhat SME’s should consider when choosing employee benefits
57% of small business owners and employers want to increase the benefits they offer staff, while 34% plan to increase their employee benefits package significantly, according to research by MetLife UK. Health and wellbeing benefits were the most popular, of which around 19% of SME managers said they would specifically ...
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Case StudiesLothian's occupational health service provides valuable employee data
Lothian is the UK’s largest municipal bus firm, carrying around 120 million customers per year. It is one of Edinburgh's biggest employers, with more than 2,500 staff, around 1,800 of whom are drivers.In 2018, Lothian started working with Health Shield’s occupational health service. From the outset, the organisation saw the ...
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OpinionJennie Doyle: Employees are an organisation's most important asset
People spend a third of their waking lives at work; for many, this can mean sitting indoors at a desk for long periods of time, staring at a computer screen, and having few proper breaks. This can have a detrimental effect on physical and mental health, negatively impacting productivity and ...
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ArticleKavitha Sivasubramaniam: Evolving to become about much more than physical health
As our Occupational Health Week, in association with Health Shield, draws to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the trends and issues currently shaping this area of the benefits market.In recent years, health and wellbeing strategies have evolved to become about much more than just physical ...
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AnalysisHow to measure the value of occupational health initiatives
Need to know:In addition to reducing absence and meeting legal requirements, occupational health interventions can benefit many things, including turnover, productivity and employers’ liability insurance.Using data from a wide range of sources, organisations can map positive changes that show the value of their occupational health programme.Hidden factors should also be ...
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OpinionDr Sayeed Khan: Valuable occupational health services need better marketing
Occupational health is not marketed as well as it should be, that much is clear. We need to get the message across that occupational health nowadays is much more than just screening and surveillance.Physicians often discuss three tiers of occupational health practice. The first is around surveillance and screening, which ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Intangible assets are key to demonstrating return-on-investment
Employee Benefits Connect 2019: The way organisations measure return-on-investment (ROI) for employee benefits should take into consideration intangible assets, such as branding, employee goodwill, customer relationships, intellectual property and knowledge sharing, according to Alex Tullett (pictured), director of decision science and consulting at outsourcing and professional services firm Capita HR ...