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Workplace health promotion (WHP) refers to all workplace measures that strengthen employees' health resources.
Behavioral prevention
Behavioral prevention means empowering employees to adopt health-promoting behavior. It starts with personal habits, attitudes, motives, and values concerning their health.
Examples:
Exercise programs (company sports group, back courses, walking, setting up a fitness room or gym subscription)
Stress management (relaxation and mindfulness courses, time management)
Counseling services on balancing family and career or caring for family members, addiction counseling - (EAP or cooperation with charitable counseling companies)
Services within the framework of (company) health insurance
Health circles, health days
Situational prevention
Situational prevention comprises health-promoting changes to the work and organizational design.
Examples:
Ergonomic adaptation of the workplace, e.g., by equipping it with height-adjustable desks
Reduction of noise pollution
Health-promoting work organization- by the manager, especially concerning mental health.
What are the benefits of WHP?
Healthy and satisfied employees are an important prerequisite for the company's success. Healthy employees perform better, are absent less often, and enjoy their work more. Absences due to illness and staff turnover are reduced, and efficiency and morale increase.
With workplace health promotion, you contribute to a positive corporate culture.
Participants in WHP
Healthy employees in healthy companies is a goal in which everyone can participate. The company management and the employees, the work and staff councils, and the company's doctors and safety experts. The better you involve diverse people in your company, the greater the acceptance will be in the future. Health insurance companies are important contacts as well.
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