Guideline 5. Committing to promoting workplace health

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The social security institution commits formally to the role of workplace health promoter by emphasizing its capacity to motivate and engage the insured population for added value.

The insured population includes both those in workplaces and other actors in the social health insurance system.

Formal commitment requires the institution to make a strategic choice in favour of health promotion in a setting approach, recognizing the broader social, economic and environmental contexts which influence health status.

Guideline code
WHP_00800
Mechanism
Mechanism
  • The management should ensure that commitment to workplace health promotion is expressed in the institution’s strategic aims and goals, on its website and in its corporate communications.
  • The board should base its commitment on acknowledging the importance of workplace health promotion in safeguarding the organization’s sustainability (i.e. the rationale for workplace health promotion).
  • The board/management should advocate for the role of health promoter by highlighting the added value it can provide through its relationships with employers and trade unions, health service providers and insured people in the social health insurance system.
  • The board/management should adopt a setting approach to health promotion that places workplace health promotion within a community vision of health promotion.
  • The management should develop workplace health promotion activities in addition to individualized services for the insured population.
Structure
Structure
  • The board should formally commit to promoting workplace health promotion and facilitating its development within client enterprises and organizations.
  • The board should establish the promotion of health and well-being within its overall vision of health and align it with primary prevention health policies.
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Guideline 5. Committing to promoting workplace health
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