Introduction: What Works and Why focus on Work and Health?
This section includes some overarching resources that will introduce you to the area of work and health and outline what good practice is:
- Health matters: health and work - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) – An overview as to how being in good work is better for your health than being out of work, calls to action and a range of guidance materials.
- Work and worklessness infographics
- What Good Health at Work Looks Like – An Association of Directors of Public Health Guide including features of what good local health at work looks like in any defined place. It was developed collaboratively through the synthesis of existing evidence, examples of best practice, practitioners’ experiences and consensus expert opinions
- Guidance for better workplace wellbeing - What Works Wellbeing - This guidance helps you plan, and carry out, evidence-informed programmes and activities to improve wellbeing in the workplace.
- SOM (Society of Occupational Medicine) Webinar (1 hour) - The business case for investing in health and wellbeing Recording here. Slides here
- Business Leaders’ Council - What Works Wellbeing Webinars (1 hour) including: Good work for wellbeing in the Coronavirus economy & Why is employee wellbeing so important?
- SOM Webinar (1 hour) - How can we build back better – the new world of work - recording here. Slides here, here, here.
- SOM Webinar (1.5 hour) Promoting workplace health and wellbeing in COVID-19 and beyond - Recording here. PDF slides here and here.
- Building the case for a workplace wellbeing strategy (video) https://whatworkswellbeing.org/resources/building-the-case-for-a-workplace-wellbeing-strategy-video/
- SME modelling work by LKIS