Workplace Health

Promotion in Singapore

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Importance of Workplace Health

Reduced medical leave & claim

Increased productivity

Employer of Choice

Reduced manpower movement

Positive workplace

culture

Safer workplace,

less accidents

Health Promotion Board’s (HPB) Workplace Health Strategy

To bring health to workers (1.36 mil by FY20): Increasing the prevalence of Workplace Health Promotion (WHP)

Leverage shared environment to build healthy workplace ecosystems at co-

located workplaces

Creating Healthy Workplace Ecosystems

Direct Outreach to Companies

Company-based approachCluster-based approachSupporting companies in setting up

workplace health structures, policies, programmes

Business Clusters

Industrial Estates

SME Workplace Health Package

Broad-based

Drive provision of targeted health interventions to mature workers

Customising TargetedSolutions for Mature Workers

Sector-based approach

7 Priority Sectors (Transport & Logistics, Education, Retail,

F&B, Healthcare, Cleaning, Security)

Targeted

• 200-hectare mixed-development • 290 companies, 18,000 employees • JTC as land owner, managed by 4 major landlords

ChallengesA widely dispersed and diverse population with complex stakeholder relationships

Learnings - Building partnerships given time is essential

to change perceptions and secure buy-ins.- Leverage on IT to maximize reach and impact

in a diverse workplace setting

Customization marketing efforts to overcome diverse and dispersed population

• Use of technology & digital platforms to successfully garner participation in health programmes

• About 1 in 3 employees participated in programmes since Nov’14

• 28% increase in active time of avg. 147mins

• 14% increase in meeting 150 min/week

• 20% regular participants (participated in => 4 sessions). 2.5 times increase from Mar 15

Cluster-based approach: Healthy Workplace Ecosystem (HWE)

Example: Helping One-north become a healthy workplace ecosystemLeveraging environment to nudge behaviour change

Within 3 years, the Healthy Workplace Ecosystem (HWE) approach

have reached 178K workers in 30+ HWEs

Company-based approach: Healthy Workplace Ecosystem (HWE)

Tracking indicators: Changes in physical activity levels, healthy eating

behavior, mental wellbeing etc.

Chronic Disease Management

Programme topics

Capacity Building

Active LivingHealthy Eating

Mental Wellbeing

Who can apply:

- Companies with annual turnover of less than SGD 100mil; or

- Companies with not more than 200 employees

Helping SMEs access ready packages of health programmes subsidised by HPB

SME Workplace Health Promotion Scheme (SME+)

Warees Investments Pte Ltd : Client of the SME Package

Ms Zareena, Strategic Assistant to Management, picked up the SME Workplace Health Package after poor health screening results in Warees Investments Pte Ltd.

Workers from WareesInvestments Pte Ltd in Hike for Health programme @ Botanic Gardens

• experienced weight loss after the weekly runs

• slight drop in blood cholesterol level• employees bond closer together and

improve their productivity and experience at work.

Mr Zulklfi

Staff at WareesInvestments Pte Ltd

Sector-based approach: Reaching 7 priority sectors

Example: Health Programme for Foodfare Workers Bringing customised health to the doorstep

Brought onsite Health Screening to workers to various

camps

Health Coaching &

Health Programmes

Health Programmes

Setting up a Health Corner

Health WorkshopsNutrition, Eating Well

Healthy Ageing NutritionErgonomics: Managing Body Pain

Physical Activities

Receives a reminder (SMS) to go for screening when he services his taxi

Attends Health Screening while waiting for his taxi to be serviced

Collects health report from Health Coach during his next taxi servicing session. Health Coach provides personalisedcoaching

Visits Health Coach for follow-up coaching every monthduring taxi servicing

Attends health check at the end of the 9th month, receives assessment of his health targets

Receives incentives such as shopping vouchers, if he participates in intervention activities.

1st & 2nd month 3rd to 8th month 9th to 10th month

Window of opportunity was identified during monthly taxi servicing,where drivers typically need to wait for 2-3 hours at the service centre.

Sector-based approach: Reaching 7 priority sectors

Example:

10

Within 3 years, we’ve cracked the code to reach the hard-to-reach

through the 4Rs of customised workplace health

and impacted 32,000 mature workers

Sector-based approach: Bringing health to the heartlands

Example: “Health in the Heartlands” through neighborhood malls

Pilot at Loyang Point

Aggregate demand for health programmes for F&B, Retail,

Cleaners and Security workers in the heartland malls

Strategy Main Target Audience

Who can apply How to indicate interest

Cluster-based approach:

Healthy Workplace

Ecosystem (HWE)

• Landlords and developers

of business and industrial

clusters

• Cluster with ≥ 10

organisations located in

close proximity and with

workforce size of ≥ 500

workers (office-based,

industrial estates and

mixed developments)

Please email

HPB_Health_At_Work@hpb.

gov.sg with your contact details

Sector-based approach:

Health4Work

programmes for

Mature Workers

• Lower income mature

workers from 7 priority

sectors (Transport &

Logistics, Retail, Education,

Healthcare, Cleaning,

Security, Food & Beverage)

• Companies from the 7

priority sectors

• Heartland malls

Company-based

approach:

SME Workplace

Health Promotion

Scheme (SME+)

• Small-medium enterprises • Companies with annual

turnover of less than SGD

100mil; or

• Companies with not more

than 200 employees

Health Promotion Board’s (HPB) Workplace Health Strategies