Do you recognise the importance of a Healthy Workplace, but aren’t quite sure where to start?
This section takes information from the international evidence base and recommendations of key stakeholders in Ireland and translates it into an actionable method. It aims to provide everything you need to develop your Healthy Workplace.
Steps to Creating a Healthy Workplace
Step-by-step method to follow along on your journey to a Healthy Workplace with tips, checklists and resources for each step.
Step 1 – Gain and Demonstrate Support
Key Message: Formal support from the top is crucial to ensure acquisition of sufficient resources & sustainability of the initiative, and for employees to be aware of the company’s commitment …
Step 2 – Conduct Assessments and Set Objectives
Key Message: Assessing your Needs will help you identify the issues important to employees and to the organisation. Collecting baseline information will help you identify these Needs and will also …
Step 3 – Plan and Resource
Key Message: Developing an action plan starts with making a comprehensive list of priorities. A thorough action plan will help you assess your assets and share company resources by connecting …
Step 4 – Implement
Key Message: Employee engagement, programme transparency and consistent communication are essential for Implementation success. This step is simply putting your Action Plan to action. All necessary activities and considerations have …
Step 5 – Evaluate and Improve
Key Message: No initiative is complete until a formal Evaluation is carried out. Evaluation is essential in order to: You’ve successfully completed all preliminary steps (Steps 1, 2 & 3) …
Increasing the Likelihood of Success
Find out what successful workplace wellbeing programmes have in common.
Views of People with Experience
Find out from the people themselves what was supportive and what was challenging when designing and implementing workplace wellbeing programmes
Acknowledgement is given to the Australian Department of Health, Healthy Workers Initiative Australia’s Healthy Workers Initiative, Brunton et al., (2016), CDC Workplace Health Model, Health Research Board, NIOSH The Essential Elements of Effective Workplace Programs, PWC’s Framework, WHO Healthy Workplace Model & WRC Tools and Techniques Manual for the content on these pages. For full details and credits, please see the Ireland Department of Health Research Paper titled ‘Factors organisations should consider when developing Healthy Workplaces and Workplace Wellbeing Programmes’ by Murphy et al. (2018) located in the Research & Evidence section.