Healthy company: How to reach the work well-being
38% of the Spanish town considers that its work affects in a negative way to its health, according to a study carried out for the European Foundation for the Improvement of the Living conditions and of work (2020). It is for this reason, that every time charges more importance the model of Healthy Company.
But, what is a healthy company?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the environment of healthy work as “that in which workers and bosses collaborate in a process of constant improvement to promote and protect the health, security and well-being of the workers and the sustentabilidad of the atmosphere of work”. In addition, also makes reference to that it is a workspace that improvement the health not only of the employees, but also of families and communities of the workers.
Interventions that they do more healthy workspaces are those which have to see with the security, the well-being, the health, and the sustainability. Of which is discussed, then, is of turning the position of work in a space that it is comfortable, healthy and nice.
What can do the company to achieve this healthy work environment?
Some stock that can carry out the company to do of its space an environment of work healthy, are:
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Campaigns related to the health promotion. Advice and risks on the health.
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Guarantee the break of the work. It is the case, for example, from the right to the disconnection digital.
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Aids to take a healthy life. Promote the healthy diet, as well as the physical activity, offering, for example, advantages in centres Wellness.
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Take care the workspace. This can affect directly in the motivation and the mood of the person worker, since a welcoming atmosphere invites to work more comfortably.
Advantages of becoming a healthy company
The fact of being a company with a healthy environment that promotes the health and its employees' well-being, supposes a series of profits:
- Health. It allows that employees and employees sit down better mental and physically and as a result that are healthier.
- Yield. The well-being of the professional takes to that this develops its work activity of a more satisfactory way and that in turn has repercussions in which can increase the productivity.
- Investment. Take care of the mental health and physics of the people workers can reduce the absenteeism and to increase the presentismo, whereupon you can save costs.
- Reputation. Take care and take into account the well-being of employees does that these are more glad, have a great sense of belonging and thus they do it to know to the people of its environment.
- Attraction of the talent. Healthy trading profits can be a bonus when to choose the work, since every time more ítems are considered beyond the wage.
With all of this, the objective of the environment of healthy work, it is to achieve employees and employees with a good health condition, that they sit down comfortable in its work position and that thus they move it to the people of its environment