Achieving these targets will help achieve the long term aims of reducing the number of sick days lost due to work related illnesses and reducing the number of new incapacity benefit claims.
This service is specifically targeted at medium to large sized businesses within Kirklees. Our advisors will adapt their skills and knowledge to accommodate for all businesses interested in the scheme regardless of:
What's in it for employers?
What's in it for employees?
What can we offer your business?
Many similar schemes in operation around the country have shown that promoting health in the workforce:
Overall profitability will increase due to less expenditure on recruitment and training costs and less need for temporary staff.
The personal benefits of following a healthy lifestyle include:
A reduction in stress and anxiety levels leading to a redution in the risk of developing depression (ie - improved mental health)
FREE support, advice and action on a range of health issues including:
Key Statistics:
“The average cost of employee absence to UK businesses is £598 per employee, per year” (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2006)
“175 million working days were lost due to illness in 2006” (Dame Carol Black - National Director for Health and Work, 2008)
12 900 individuals in Kirklees suffer from Heart Disease (CLICK survey, 2003)
If current obesity trends continue, “around 90% of men and 80% of women will be overweight or obese by 2050” (Dame Carol Black - National Director for Health and Work, 2008)
55% of the 600 000 new incapacity benefit claims per year come directly from work or from a period of sickness absence from work (Dame Carol Black - National Director for Health and Work, 2008)
Lack of exercise is a major cause of back pain (NHS Direct, 2008)
“The annual economic costs of sickness absence and worklessness associated with working age ill-health are estimated to be over £100 billion”
(Dame Carol Black - National Director for Health and Work, 2008)
“37% of men and 24% of women are sufficiently active to gain any health benefits” (Sport England, 2007)
Almost a fifth of individuals in Kirklees and Calderdale smoke (CLICK survey, 2003)
“Adult obesity rates have almost quadrupled over the last 25 years, and two thirds of UK adults are now considered overweight or obese” (NHS Direct, 2008)
Over one third of men and one fifth of women drink more than the governments recommended guidelines (British Heart Foundation, 2005)
“Coronary heart disease is the UK 's biggest killer, with one in every four men, and one in every six women dying from the disease” (NHS Direct, 2008)
13% of individuals living in Kirklees and Calderdale reported suffering from high blood pressure (CLICK survey, 2003)
12 900 people in Kirklees suffered from Heart Disease in 2003 (CLICK survey, 2003)
11% of individuals living in Kirklees and Calderdale suffered from Depression/Anxiety/another nervous illness
19.5% of adults living in Kirklees and Calderdale were sedentary in 2003 (CLICK survey, 2003)
Almost ¾ of the population of Kirklees and Calderdale travelled to work in a motor vehicle in 2003 (CLICK survey, 2003)
According to the 2001 Census, 13.54% of working aged individuals reported having a limiting long-term illness (2001 Census)
Mortality rates for inactive men are double those of active men (in the employee well being strategy by Louise Mohammed – need to find the source)
Wanting Proof?
1) The website below gives information about organisations who have already taken steps to improve the health of their workforce. Click on the company name to see a summary of the aims, actions and benefits.
2) Ever wondered what it's like to experience a heart attack? Click on the link below to see what its like.
3) Dame Carol Black is the National Director for Health at Work. Her 2008 report gives facts and figures of the current health of the UK 's working population.
4) Have a question about health? Find it on the NHS Direct website.
5) Online advice about how you can incorporate a healthy lifestyle into your life.
6) Want to make a start on improving the health of your workplace? Get advice and information about how you can make your workplace healthy at:
7) Want information on what you need to eat to get your 5-a-day? Want healthy meal ideas?
Similar schemes website:
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/workplacehealth
To take advantage of the services we offer simply send an e-mail to |
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Better Health at Work Team,
Kirklees Environmental Services,
Riverbank Court,
Wakefield Road,
Aspley,
Huddersfield HD5 9AA
T: 01484 416777
F: 01484 414883
E: env.betterhealth@kirklees.gov.uk