Workplace health and well-being makes good business sense.
The annual economic costs of sickness absence and worklessness associated with working age ill-health is estimated at over £100 billion
(Working for a healthier tomorrow 2008).
The average cost of absence per employee in the UK is estimated at £692 per year and on average there are 7.4 days lost per employee per year to sickness absence (CIPD 2009).
A healthy workforce is a sustainable workforce; it makes common sense to ensure that, wherever possible, the people who make up our organisations are in good health and feel good about themselves and their work environment.
The new Workplace Well-being tool has been designed to help employers improve the health and well-being of people in their organisation. By using the FREE tool, employers can get support on a variety of health and well-being measures, allowing them to:
- calculate the annual cost of employee ill-health, staff turnover and workplace injuries / insurance claims
- create unique profiles of their organisation based on the whole organisation, or focused on specific departments / business sectors within it
- save these profiles for future reference
- compare these costs and benchmark perfomance against similar organisations (by business sector, size and geographic area)
- build bespoke business cases for their own workplace health and well-being intiatives, export and download these easily to MS Excel spreadsheets.
- evaluate existing health and well-being initatives
- estimate the return on investment of a health and well-being programe
- find practical interventions to improve workplace health
- learn from case studies of exemplar workplace health and well-being best practice from real employers in the UK
This new tool was developed to replace the existing Business Health Check Tool and is an improved web-based version. It is user friendly and versatile, providing step-by-step guidance to employers to support them to work towards improving health and well-being in their organisation.
Register and start using the Workplace Well-being Tool now.