Most of us spend one-third of our adult life at work. That’s a significant investment of time.
Just as a workplace can affect the physical, mental and social wellbeing of staff, it also provides an opportunity to optimise employee health.
Workplace health this is one of the most important ways an organisation can invest in their people.
While employers have a duty of care to ensure the safety of their employees while they’re at work, workplace health is about so much more than safety.
The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 defines ‘health’ as both physical and psychological.
For your employees, the benefits of optimal health and wellbeing include:
As an employer, creating a healthy workplace and a focus on employee wellbeing isn’t just the right thing to do, it makes good business sense.
Strong evidence shows that good employee health and wellbeing boosts organisational health and business performance.
A Comcare research report showed that workplace health and wellbeing programs can produce a positive return on investment (greater than 5:1) and deliver the following outcomes:
This report suggests that organisations that invest in worker health are among the most successful over time because healthy and safe workplaces:
Good workplace health brings the following benefits:
Ensuring the health and wellbeing of your employees isn’t just the right thing to do, it makes good business sense.