Health & Wellbeing Workplace Guidance

The conditions in which people live and work has a significant impact on their health and wellbeing. Good quality, fair work can positively affect employee health and wellbeing which can in turn positively affect productivity and staff retention within an organisation, as well as reduce sickness absence rates and presenteeism.

The Health and Wellbeing Workplace Guidance pages are designed to enable employers to think about and review the health and wellbeing of all aspects of their organisation (staff, culture and practice) to help them take action.

Healthy Working Wales provides employers with practical guidance and resources as well as signposting to initiatives and support services across a wide range of topics.

This section providing workplace guidance is divided into three main themes with the following content:

Healthy Work Environments:

• Organisational responsibility and buy-in
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Fair work
• Employee development and progression
• Communication and engagement
• Flexible places and ways of working
• Health and safety
• Infection, prevention and control
• Environmental sustainability
• Corporate social responsibility

Healthy Lifestyles at Work:

• Alcohol and drugs
• Being active
• Healthy eating
• Smoking and tobacco
• Financial wellbeing
• Gambling
• Good Health

Employees with Health Needs:

• Health conditions and impairments
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Employees who experience trauma
• Musculoskeletal health
• Managing sickness absence
• Older workers and healthy aging
• Women’s health