HEALTH AND WELLBEING

We are constantly being bombarded through the media with the need to be aware of and improve our fitness and diet. Sometimes this is easier said than done.

• Where do I start?
• What foods are healthy?
• What quantities can I eat?
• I lead a busy life, how can I fit a healthy diet and exercise into this?
• The gym is too expensive for my budget, what other exercise can I do?

Our consultancy services to the corporate industry enables businesses to improve productivity of their employees by enhancing the health and wellbeing of each individual and providing a company that excels in their own market sector. Unhealthy employees' means sick leave and inefficient working due to tiredness and stress.

A FEW STATISTICS

• Medical costs of those with 6 or more risk factors (such as diabetes, back problems, heart disease, depression etc.) are eight times higher than those with none
• Unhealthy workers average just 49 productive hours of work per month compared to 143 hour per month for the healthy ones
• Sickness absence costs UK Plc over £12 billion a year and employers £495 a year in direct costs for every worker employed. Indirect costs are probably considerably more
• 1 million people are effected by musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) making them the most common occupational illness in Great Britain . They include problems such as low back pain, joint injuries and repetitive strain injuries of various sorts
• Stress due to work accounts for 33% of all new incidences of ill health
• An average of 30.9 working days are lost from each case of stress-related ill health
• A total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5 ( UK )
• Poor mental health increases absenteeism by 50%
• Back/neck pain will increase absenteeism by 40%
• For every health risk an employee has, productivity drops by an average of 2.4%
• Workers Compensation costs for high risk employees are 12 times greater than those of low risk employees
• Ill mental health costs UK businesses £15.1 billion a year in reduced productivity at work
• 'Presenteeism' accounts for 1.5 times as much working time lost as absenteeism and costs more to employers because it is more common among higher-paid staff

TAKE THE TEST

How does your business shape up?

This is a tool you can use to see if the health and wellbeing strategies you use will be completely effective. It will outline if you are on the right track, need to improve or need to start implementing a strategy straight away

Working with us ensures that specific challenges are met in your organisation in the most comprehensive way possible.  Knowing our clients inside-out is one of the main reasons why our tailored programmes are so successful.  We dedicate time to making sure we listen to you and collect as much data and information as possible. Only this way can we provide solutions that will work for each individual company.  We aim to build lasting relationships with our clients that bring about outcomes of the highest standard from our partnership.  We will provide recommendations to meet your needs, as well as help you implement the necessary changes.  We are here to provide the expert knowledge and strategies you are looking for, that are right for your organisation and therefore failure proof and success orientated

• Health checks
• Seminars & workshops
• Stress management programme
• Musculoskeletal Disease
• Nutrition
• Health & wellbeing awareness days
• Physical activity and energiser sessions
• Gym/health club set up and management
• Data collection & analysis
• E-wellness
• Training the trainer
• Team building