The Liverpool office of the GMB union has signed up to the Health@Work initiative to help improve its workers’ health and well-being and work towards achieving the Workplace Well-being Charter – an award for businesses committed to workplace health.
The Charter provides free advice and support and focuses on seven key areas: leadership; sickness and absence management; alcohol and substance misuse; smoking; mental health and stress; healthy eating; and physical activity.
Advisors from the Health@Work charity have already delivered a seminar for GMB staff, and at the union’s conference to mark International Women’s Day. The seminars promoted a healthy way of life and focused on diet, exercises and healthy living, clearing up a lot of misconceptions held by GMB staff on what they believed was healthy.
Regional secretary Paul McCarthy said “The work we have done with Health@Work so far has been very beneficial, and the feedback from staff has been excellent. It is definitely a learning curve for our staff, as they have started to look at themselves in a different light and are looking at their lifestyle a little more closely.”
Health@Work chief executive Frances Molloy (pictured) added: “It is great that a large organisation such as the GMB has signed up to be part of the Workplace Well-being Charter. They are committed to looking after the well-being of their staff and it is good to see their employees really get involved in with the programme and take our advice on board.”
For more information, visit www.healthatworkcentre.org.uk
