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1. About
Healthy Working Wales (HWW) is a free national programme that aims to improve health and prevent ill-health among the working age population by working with and through employers and workplaces in Wales. HWW is funded by Welsh Government and delivered by Public Health Wales.
HWW supports employers to:
- Create health and safe working environments and practices.
- Take action to improve the health and wellbeing of their staff and promote healthy behaviours.
- Prevent and manage sickness absence and supportive return to work effectively to prevent people from falling out of work due to ill-health.
- Support those with chronic conditions to stay in work.
- Take a proactive approach to recruiting disabled people into the workforce.
2. How they do this
HWW provide a digital offer to employers with a self-directed approach to employee and workplace health and wellbeing, including:
- Website content with information, advice, quick wins, resources and signposting on a wide range of topics
- Action planning tools, case studies, podcasts
- Employer research and insights to inform products and plans (reports available on HWW website)
- Accessible training and development resources on a range of topics, for example:
Musculoskeletal conditions
Sickness absence management
EDI with specific focus on disability
Work-related stress
They are currently developing:
- Digital survey tools and automated reports:
- Employer survey tool to measure organisational baseline position in relation to staff health and wellbeing and readiness to take action and to identify priorities for action
- Employee survey tool to secure employee input and to identify employee health and wellbeing needs
- Capacity building via a mentoring programme plus a network of Workplace Health Champions
3. Find out more
Website: Healthy Working Wales
E-mail: workplacehealth@nhs.uk
Sign-up to the monthly HWW e- bulletin to receive updates and links to new resources and campaigns.
Follow HWW on social media:
X: @Healthywork_HWW
Facebook: @HealthyWorkingWales
Instagram: @HealthyWorkingWales
LinkedIn: @Healthy Working Wales / Cymru Iach Ar Waith
Listen to their podcasts on YouTube