Healthy Workplace, Healthy Workforce, Healthy Business
Healthy Working Wales (HWW) is a national programme that aims to improve health and prevent ill-health among the working age population by working with and through employers and workplaces. HWW is a national programme delivered by Public Health Wales free of charge to employers in Wales.
HWW supports employers to:
- Create healthy and safe working environments and practices.
- Take action to improve the health and wellbeing of their staff and promote healthy behaviours.
- Prevent and manage sickness absence and supportive return to work effectively to prevent people from falling out of work due to ill-health.
- Support those with chronic conditions to stay in work.
- Take a proactive approach to recruiting disabled people into the workforce.
How do we do this?
We provide a digital offer to provide employers with a self-directed approach to employee and workplace health and wellbeing activity, including:
- Expert advice and guidance plus access to interactive tools on a wide range of topics.
- Employer case studies, podcasts, animated explainers, and infographics.
- Action planning templates
We are currently developing:
- Employer and employee survey tools measuring organisational readiness to take action on health and wellbeing and workforce health and wellbeing needs in order to inform priorities for action.
- Guidance on measuring progress and evaluating impact.
We will also be offering accessible employer training and development with focus on e-learning including:
- Webinars on workplace health approaches and benefits.
- Workshops for employers to gain and share information and learning.
- A mentoring programme for experienced employers to provide guidance and expertise to others.
- A network of Workplace Health Champions across Wales to be advocates for workplace health and wellbeing.
All of the above is supported by:
- Employer research to inform development of approaches and products.
- Comms and engagement activities to engage employers, including through social media and a monthly e-bulletin. Subscribe here
- Joint work with partner organisations to reach more employers, especially SMEs, such as business and sector specific bodies.
We are busy planning:
- A new partnership with Business Wales to host materials and expand HWW’s reach.
- Specific campaigns to target particular sectors to help address inequalities in health and priority topics which have the biggest impact on workplace health.
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