Ask yourself – how well are your employees?

Determined to make a positive change and to put staff health first, Manfreight signed up to Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke’s Work Well Live Well programme.

Work Well Live Well, a Public Health initiative, is a free health and wellbeing support service run by Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS).

NICHS health professionals help to identify health risks in the workplace and work with you to create and deliver a bespoke action plan to help improve employee wellbeing.

Changes made through the plan can be as simple as greater access to healthy snacks or incentivised exercise, but the programme also concentrates on improving mental health and sleep, managing stress and reducing risk factors associated with heart disease.

Fidelma Carter, Director of Public Health at NICHS, explains; ‘There’s never been a more crucial time to check on your employee’s health – the pandemic will have affected people, both mentally and physically, in ways you may not have considered.

The average worker will spend almost 85,000 hours at work over the course of their career. It is vital that those hours are safe, happy and healthy.”

Michael Rennie, Health and Safety Manager at Manfreight, is a strong advocate for the employee health programme;

‘We are delighted to be taking part in the Work Well Live Well programme with NI Chest Heart & Stroke.

“We have completed our staff wellbeing survey, and have already taken steps to action suggestions.

“Two staff members Aisling and Paddy will be trained as Workplace Health Champions and together with NICHS will develop an action plan. This will help to guide us on actioning wellbeing areas that are a priority for our staff.

“We look forward to next steps and building on our journey for health and wellbeing supports for staff at Manfreight whether on the road or at the yard.”

Ask yourself - how well are your employees? Commit to improving the health and wellbeing of your staff today and register your workplace for Work Well Live Well.

Visit www.nichs.org.uk/workwelllivewell or email [email protected]

About Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke

NICHS’s vision is a Northern Ireland free from chest, heart, and stroke illnesses.

Established in 1946, we work with people of all ages across the country, delivering vital care and prevention services and carrying out extensive research into how to prevent these conditions, alongside ‘on the ground’ support. As a charity, we are committed to supporting thousands of local people living with chest, heart, and stroke conditions to keep well through COVID-19.

With almost 90% of our services funded by you, we need your help to continue rebuilding local lives.

During the pandemic, NICHS has:

• Made 32,120 support calls

• Spent 217,000 minutes supporting clients

• 98% of service users felt that we were there when they needed us most

For more, see www.nichs.org.uk

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