Health promotion in the workplace: 3 useful tips

Investing in your employees’ health pays off. After all, good health ensures that employees will feel more fit, both physically and mentally. For every euro invested in health promotion, you get 3 euro in return! Creating a healthy work environment for your employees shows that you care about them.

Research shows that:

• 30% of absenteeism is related to working conditions
• 27% of the population suffers from a chronic condition. The condition is often due to employees’ lifestyle, but also to working conditions (back and neck problems, heart disease, high blood pressure, depression…)
• Short-term sick leave (> 1month) has increased to 6.5 days per year

3 useful tips:

• Communicate with your employees (e.g. health tip of the month...)
• Provide healthy food and drinks (e.g. complimentary fruit, water...)
• If possible, adjust the infrastructure (e.g. make sure there are ergonomic office chairs, a place to store bicycles, showers...)