Live a healthy business - Living healthy starts at the top. Strong support for healthy practices in your managers will ensure all your staff are healthy too. Helping staff to make positive, healthy decisions will be reflected in reduced time off, better productivity and fewer attendance disciplinary hearings.
Communicate with staff - Talking to staff is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to help staff feel good about work and show them that your care. You can talk to staff about anything: tell them about hetechniques for effectivecommunicationalthy options, NHS awareness days (bit.ly/nhsevents) or simply about what the company is doing. Just knowing whats happening at work can reduce stress and anxiety, as well as staff feel valued and engaged enhancing
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A healthy workforce makes for a healthy bottom line. With sickness absences costing employers an average of 600 per person per year, and mental ill-health costing around 1,000 per employee per year, ensuring your workforce is both healthy and happy can make a serious impact on your profitability.
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Engage staff - Staff feel more valued, and are more productive, when they have something invested in your company. Actively engaging with staff much more than just communicating with them means involving them in decisions within the company. Ask for staff input on what support they want from you, and what they dont.
support people in healthy choices for instance, can you provide healthier food at work? Can your business live the five ways to wellbeing (bit.ly/5ways2wellbeing)? Can you provide flyers for free stop smoking services? Or can you negotiate a vourable deal for staff at a local gym?
Be a health champion - Champion healthy decisions, and lead a healthy life yourself both physically and mentally. This will encourage others to do the same. Look at how your business can
Be there for each other - A phone call when someone is off ill can make all the difference. Take notice of one another is someone having a hard time, or acting differently? Talking to staff and signposting staff to support services takes only a moment. Supporting staff to better health, and being there for them means they will repay in kind and be there at work for you.
