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Workplace health promotion (WHP) helps employees and organisations in responding to changes in work life. The promotion of well-being and work ability is a co-operative process: everyone's view and experience is needed, as well as the will to strive for improvements.
Some essential questions for workplace well-being and productivity are:
- How well are the worktasks and the work environment is organised?
- How healthy and safe is the functioning of the team?
- How diversified are the skills and can they be used for the good of the team and their organisation?
- How well do the organisation's functions support everyone's opportunities to participate in and influence matters at work?
Workplace health promotion is a process. There is no one way for carrying it out. Both its extent and goals may vary. At its best, the promotion of the employees' work ability is a part of everyday routine.
When the activities are planned, the following things should be considered:
- What should be done, in other words, the steps of the process?
- How and why to proceed, i.e. different options for actions and their significance to the success of the actions?
- What sort of guidance, guidelines and experience are available to support the process in our workplace
The goal of WHP
Workplace health promotion supports the well-being and functional capacity of employees, and advances workplace functions and productivity.
The central factors (quality criteria) in workplace health promotion are:
- work ability is a broad and manysided concept
- the participation of the management and personnel is genuinine and direct
- there are enough resources for impelmentating WHP
- the activities are based on the requirements of the workplace, the process is co-operative and applies to everyone at the workplace
- the process is continuous, goal-oriented and planned
- it is documented at the organisational level
- the follow-up, evaluation and corrective measures are a continuous process
Modified 01.07.2011 Tjäder Johanna