PART 3

Workplace Challenge Champion Training

Aims of the Workplace Challenge Champion TrainingTo provide information and support to those with a remit for workplace health to create a sustainable increase in participation in sport and physical activity at their workplace.

Why physical activity and workplace health?

Health benefits

Reduces risk of chronic conditions:

• Coronary heart disease• Stroke• Type 2 diabetes• Cancer• Obesity• Mental health problems• Musculoskeletal

problems

Improves people’s quality of life:

• More energy• Less stressed• More relaxed• Healthier body shape• Sleep more easily• Social aspect• More self-confidence

Health risks – physical inactivity

• Reduces the risk of all-cause mortality

• Approximately 30% risk reduction across all studies

• Dose-response relationship

US PA guidelines advisory committee report 2008

Risk factors for CHD

SmokingObesityHigh cholesterolHigh BPPhysical inactivity

Which circle is physical inactivity?

Risk factors for CHD

Costs of physical inactivity

• 4th leading risk factor for global mortality WHO 2010

• Accounts for 6% of deaths globally WHO 2010

• Direct cost to NHS £0.9 billion Scarborough et al, 2011

• Cost of lost productivity £5.5billion Ossa and Hutton, 2002

• Costs of premature death of people of working age

£1 billion Ossa and Hutton, 2002

Scale of the problem

• Over 60% men and 70% women don’t do the recommended amount of exercise to benefit their health

• BUT 80% of people think they are active enough

Adult guidelines

Headline message:• Be active every day • Every ten minutes counts

 

Top line messages

1. Something is better than nothing.

2. Build up to a total of 150 active minutes a week.

3. Be sure to add in activities that will help strengthen your muscles.

4. Limit and break up the amount of time you spend sitting still.

Physical activity

• HaW pocket challenge booklet - think of ways you can build activity into your week – fill in the weekly planner on page 5

Why promote health and wellbeing at work?

Workplace setting

• Over 30 million people in employment• Average person spends over a third of their

waking hours, for up to 40 years of their life, at

work. • Workplace has big effect on the health of everyone

who works there• A fantastic place for promoting health to employees• Established channels of communication - publicise

programmes, encourage participation and

provide feedback

Ill-health

• Many of the health problems of the UK workforce can be attributed to worsening public health with poor diets, growing obesity, smoking and more sedentary lifestyles all playing their part.

• Situation likely to get worse - UK workforce of the future being older and sicker, with more people living and working with ill-health.

• It is likely by 2025 40% of adults will be obese, and the number of people living and working with chronic conditions will rise steadily.

Costs of Ill-health

Ill health costs business through:• Cost of sickness absence

• 160 million working days are lost every year due to absence• Costs UK businesses 17 billion a year• An average 5.3 days absence and cost to employers of £975 per

employee• Average London firm of 250 employees loses around £250,000 a

year

• Staff turnover• Accidents and injury• Productivity• Presenteeism

Return on investment

• Employers who invest in health initiatives = potential to see significant return on investment (ROI)

• ROI can range from £2 for every £1 spent (1:2) to £34 for every £1 spent (1:34)

• Reduced sickness absence evident in 82% of programmes • Holistic wellness programmes can be expected to show a

positive financial return over a period of 2-3 years• More targeted interventions are more likely to show a pay-

back period earlier.

BHF Building the Business case report 2014

Group activity

• What are the benefits of promoting physical activity and health in the workplace for employees?

• What are the benefits of promoting physical activity and health in the workplace for employers?

Benefits to employees

• Improved health and wellbeing – more active, fitter, less stressed

• Reduced risk of illness and diseases• Increased understanding of health• Enhanced self-esteem• Increased job satisfaction and morale• Increased communication and social support• Opportunities to network across the business

Benefits to employers

• Healthy staff - more satisfied, productive and resilient• Reduced absenteeism

• Physical activity initiatives can reduce absenteeism by up to 20% and physically active workers take 27% fewer sick days

• Reduced costs related to injuries and accidents• Reduced recruitment costs• Reduced staff turnover• Increased productivity• Team building• Positive company image and profile• Mitigate some of the problems of an ageing workforce.

HaW video

What is the Workplace Challenge and BHF Health at Work programme?

What is the Workplace Challenge?

National Partners:

Aim: To engage workplaces in sport and physical activity

Funded by: Sport England

1) Activity Log:

-National Challenge - Jan to Mar

-local mini challenges – Walking, Summer, Cycling, Running

2) Competition Programme

3) Business Games

Win prizes and compete against other businesses

Sign up for FREE today!

www.workplacechallenge.org.uk

What’s involved?

Evaluation

Workplace Challenge is being evaluated by BHF National Centre for physical activity and health.

Aims of the evaluation;• Learn how workplaces can engage

inactive people.• Assess effectiveness of the Workplace

Challenge.

Sustainability

Workplaces and Workplace Challenge Champions ongoing participation in the programme. Capability to develop sport and PA in the workplace.

Opportunities to sustain the Workplace Challenge beyond 2015. Enhanced offer.

What’s in it for us?Champion; to gain further knowledge and experience in promoting physical activity, whilst providing a key role to colleagues and the project through the liaison of sport and physical activity coordination in your workplace.

Workplace; get support to improve health and wellbeing at your workplace, get recognition for your employees achievements.

Participants; the chance to try different sports, compete against friends, raise money for charity, live a healthier lifestyle

British Heart Foundation Health at Work Programme

Working in partnership

BHF are delighted to be a partner in the Workplace challenge.

We are supporting the project by: • providing project support through involvement in the steering

group• delivering champions training across England – creating

sustainable development of workplace health through our Health at Work programme

British Heart Foundation

Our mission is to win the fight against cardiovascular disease

Our vision is of a world in which people do not die prematurely or suffer

from cardiovascular disease

Our fight for every heartbeat

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a huge burden on people in the UKEach year around:• 1 in 4 of us die from CVD• 175,000 are admitted to hospital with a heart attack• 235,000 suffer a stroke

We’ll beat CVD by funding ground-breaking research and we’ll continue to support and empower those living with it across the UK.

We’ll drive programmes of work to keep the nation’s hearts healthy, prevent tragic loss of life, and give cardiovascular patients the best care they can receive.

Health at Work Programme

Health at Work programme

The Health at Work programme aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the working-age population by:

• Working in partnership with employers, public health and other stakeholders to create healthier workplaces

• Providing employers with practical and effective support to establish and sustain a health at work programme

• Helping people make healthy choices related to their health and wellbeing with a focus on diet, physical activity levels and tobacco use that reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease.

Key to success

Workplace coordinator/champion/leader• HR, Occ. health, Health and wellbeing manager,

Healthy lifestyle officer, H&S • Overall responsibility rests with them – contact point• Drive the programme forward – with support

• Internal - engage with management, champions and employees

• External - look for partnerships e.g. NHS. charities• Motivate

Barriers to success

Health at Work programme

The Health at Work programme includes:

• Free membership • Resources• Website• Delivery

– coordinator seminars/ training days– Health and wellbeing days– Heart health workshops

Member feedback

79% of HaW members have taken positive action since joining the programme

Positive outcomes:• Reduced absenteeism• Better morale• Team building• Improved positive corporate image• Increased communication• Individual success stories - weight loss• Enhanced employee self-esteem