Responsibility for health

Work can have a positive impact on our health and wellbeing. Healthy and well-motivated employees can have an equally positive impact on the productivity and effectiveness of a business.

Health and wellbeing in the workplace isn’t just about feeling content and maintaining a good work-life-balance, although these are certainly essential components.

Promoting health and wellbeing is also about improving confidence and job satisfaction, developing positive relationships, avoiding physical harm, and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. As a manager or supervisor, you have a duty of care towards your employees and should look to promote their health, safety and welfare on a daily basis.

Not only will this enhance employees’ everyday lives, but it will also make workers more productive and motivated in their job roles. This Health and Wellbeing course will teach you everything you need to know in order to develop and implement an effective wellbeing strategy, no matter where you work.

Responsibility for health and wellbeing at work belongs to both employers and employees. The key factors that can determine whether workers will have a positive or negative relationship with work are:

• the relationships between line managers and employees

• whether employees are involved in organisational issues and decisions

• job design

• availability and acceptability of flexible working

• awareness of occupational health issues.