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What makes a healthier workplace?

Using strategies for good work design, support, engagement and capability, you can make healthier work part of your culture.

Become a healthier workplace

Healthy workplaces focus on the physical and mental health of their employees. They implement organisational initiatives to provide safe and healthy working environments. They encourage employees to play a proactive and positive role in their own health and wellbeing.

Organisations that invest in healthier work know it’s good for business.

Apply these 3 considerations across your entire business

1. Take an integrated approach

Protect

Prevent and minimise physical and psychological harm.

Support

Provide services, interventions and resources to help employees.

Promote

Build a positive and meaningful mental and physical health culture.

2. Look at complete health

Physical health

Create physically safe environments so you’re looking after the physical health of your employees.

Mental health

Create psychologically safe environments so you’re looking after the mental health of your employees.

3. Consider place and people

Healthy place

Make your workplace safe and healthy through good work design, effective facilities and resources, supportive cultures, policies and work practices.

Healthy people

Give employees positive health information to build awareness while also facilitating their active participation in healthy behaviours.