What is a healthy workplace?
What is a healthy workplace?
A healthy workplace is one in which organisational stakeholders work together to ensure that employees are safe, well, and able to do their best while ensuring that the organisation can succeed and positively impact the community. It involves jointly identifying and managing things that can cause mental and/or physical health problems at all levels of the organisation. It also means providing the necessary resources to empower employees while protecting them from harm or injury.
While acknowledging the interconnectedness of physical and mental health and their mutual influence, our approach to a healthy workplace primarily concentrates on the psychosocial aspects.
Healthy Workplace Framework
The multifaceted nature of a healthy workplace is encapsulated in three main pillars, providing a comprehensive framework for creating and maintaining HWPs.
Health promotion and prevention
Multi-level demands and resources
Bottom-up participation and involvement
Healthy workplace index
These questions provide a quick assessment to determine whether your organisation aligns with the principles of a healthy workplace.
- Is there a well-defined plan to improve employee health and well-being at every level of the organisation?
- Have you pinpointed any factors that could affect your employees’ health and well-being, like individual, group, leadership, or organisational aspects?
- Are you taking action to address the identified factors?
- Is there an equal emphasis on both promoting employee health and well-being and preventing harm or injury?
- Do employees actively contribute to decisions about their well-being?
- Do you believe your initiatives effectively enhance employees’ health and well-being and support the organisation’s sustainability?