The institution adopts actions and approaches which will contribute to achieving its strategic goals for workplace health promotion.
Appropriate and effective actions and approaches on workplace health promotion could include disseminating information and advice, campaigning, building capacity through training and consultancy services, creating incentives, establishing quality assurance processes, creating relevant tools, and providing advice on data collection and use.
Guideline code
WHP_02400
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The management should ensure that workplace health promotion actions and approaches:
- Address identified needs;
- Correspond with available resources and timelines;
- Include both general, ongoing activities (e.g. promotion and advocacy) and specific interventions and services for client organizations;
- Support good practice by initiating comprehensive workplace health promotion programmes and creating work environments which support health and well-being;
- Are effective (having been selected on evidence of previous success, if possible);
- Are flexible, being capable of adaptation in response to change.
- The management should also ensure a balanced range of actions and approaches, which emphasize the strategic role of the social security institution by:
- Advocating for workplace health promotion and the role of the social security institution in particular;
- Including promotional activities focused on workplaces to raise awareness of the importance of health and well-being;
- Providing advice, training and information to support workplace health promotion initiatives in client organizations;
- Encouraging such initiatives by providing both financial and non-financial incentives;
- Increasing internal knowledge and skills to emphasise the social security institution’s role as an expert leader and point of reference for workplace health promotion;
- Offering specific services (e.g. smoking cessation) and programmes (e.g. planning, programming and reporting, presentations to senior management);
- Establishing counselling and other services for employees.
- The management should focus on internal knowledge and skills when determining actions and approaches.
- The management should promote collaborative actions and alliances with other intermediaries and service providers, and invite input from experts in areas other than social security to encourage fresh perspectives on effective actions and approaches.
- The management should ensure that workplace health promotion actions are integrated with and complement existing activities, to minimize administrative and managerial burdens and facilitate programme sustainability.
Structure
Structure
- The management should ensure that the institution’s workplace health promotion actions and approaches targeted to its clients are relevant and appropriate, linked to the goals and objectives of the workplace health promotion plan.
- The management should ensure that workplace health promotion actions are developed and implemented with the objective of becoming an integral part of the ongoing operations of the social security institution.
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Guideline 17. Determining workplace health promotion actions and approaches
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Guideline_1
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