Building Wellbeing at Work
Objectives
- Brain health
- We will support the competence and understanding of municipalities on different areas of brain health.
- We will work with the municipalities participating in the project to develop operating models that support brain health.
- Promotion of workday movement and recovery
- We will strengthen the competence of municipal employees and supervisors in identifying and assessing the physical requirements of work and in assessing the amount and quality of physical activity during recovery and work.
- The aim is to give work communities the means for increasing health-enhancing physical activity that meets the requirements of the work for both individual employees and the entire work community.
- Symptoms that are typical for women and their impact on work ability
- We will increase the municipalities’ competence and awareness of symptoms that are typical for women and their impacts on work ability.
- The aim is to better identify symptoms that are typical for women and improve their treatment or the referral to treatment as well as to support women’s work ability.
Data and methods
We are building operating models for women’s health that will support the work ability of municipal employees.
- These will provide municipalities with concrete tools and strengthen cooperation between the municipalities and occupational health care.
- Operating models for women’s health will be prepared in a manner that will make it possible to introduce them in as many Finnish municipalities as possible.
- The operating models will be integrated into such entities as the TYÖOTE approach, which is already widely used in Finland.
We will develop work by supervisors so that it takes brain health, physical activity, women’s health, and people’s differences better into account.
We will bring together existing good practices and those that will emerge during the project for managing workload during the working day, supporting physical activity, and reducing the impacts of sedentary activity.
- We will customize solutions that promote physical activity and recovery in accordance with the physical requirements of the work in question in cooperation with municipal employees.
- We will also increase the competence of municipal employees in assessing the requirements of work and in promoting health and wellbeing. We will train volunteer physical activity agents who are interested in physical activity and health promotion who will support the promotion of physical activity during work. Agents will act as contact persons for physical activity in work communities with supervisors and occupational health care.
Results and impact
The Building Wellbeing at Work project will support improved wellbeing at work among municipal employees and a reduction in sickness absences while increasing the efficiency of work.
The project will produce new operating models in municipal work for the following:
- brain health
- promotion of physical activity
- workload reduction, and
- challenges related to women’s health.
In addition, the results will lead to improved wellbeing at work and a reduction in sickness absences.
Funded by
ESR+
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Hanna Hakulinen
Project Manager, Research Manager
Research group
Partners
Liminka (project leader), other implementer University of Oulu. In addition to the municipality of Liminka, partners include the municipalities of Ii, Utajärvi, and Vaala.
