At the core of supporting and safeguarding the health and well-Being of our people, is our Well-Being@Work programme which we launched in September 2005. We initially ran the programme as part of a national workplace pilot project from Well@Work, where we represented the Yorkshire & Humberside region.
With the support of Health Care professionals from our local Primary Care Trust, we now have a permanent programme of workplace initiatives to promote healthy living, increase health awareness and encourage a lasting improvement in lifestyle.
Our award winning programme of initiatives include weight management and healthy eating programmes, lunchtime walks, support for stopping smoking and on-site professional health and care checks.
The benefits of the Well-Being@Work scheme are two fold. First and foremost, the scheme improves the health of our employees. Secondly, it provides an opportunity for our employees to be creative through generating ideas for the programme.
With a 95% take-up, our people have embraced the scheme wholeheartedly and as a result are either fitter, healthier or much better informed about their lifestyle choices.
In our 'Cold Turkey' initiative to motivate weight loss in the business, 35.5 Stone was lost across the company!
Through the Well-Being@Work initiative, we have helped eight people to stop smoking.
In our 'Pedometer Challenge', employees across the company have walked over 13,000 Miles!
Not only are apples low in calories, they contain absolutely no fat!
Broccoli contains twice the vitamin C of an orange.