Welcome to the Healthy Working Lives

Conference

Improving Healthier Choices

Andrew Steenson, Belfast Strategic Partnership

Claire McLernon, Sustrans

Active Belfast

“People in Belfast will be

more active and healthier.”

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Focusing on Life Inequalities

Andrew Steenson

Belfast Strategic Partnership

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Improving healthier choices:

Keeping Active

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Overview

What is Belfast Strategic Partnership (BSP) / Active Belfast

Why active and why workplaces

Who we have supported and how

Demonstration programme

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What is BSP / Active Belfast

•Multi-agency strategic partnership

•Focus on addressing life inequalities

•Range of priority themes

•Supported by an integrated team

Health: the Belfast context

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What is BSP / Active Belfast

•An approach to getting more people active

•The 3 P’s

•Barriers to being active

•Who is involved

Who is involved

Active Belfast Partnership (strategic)

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Why active and why workplaces

•Benefits for the individual

•Benefits for the organisation

•Workplace as a setting

•Benefits to the local community

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What we have done

•Provide free physical activity sessions

•Train health champions

•Promote a walking challenge

•Establish a cycling hub

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What we have done

•Provide fitness equipment

•Train Active Travel Champions

•Deliver cycling skills sessions

•Hold lunch time walks

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What we have done

•Support occupational health services

•Provide access to leisure facilities

•Hold health assessment sessions

•Promote scheme with staff

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Contact information

Andrew SteensonProject Development Senior Officer

Belfast Health Development Unit

028 9050 2073andrewsteenson@bhdu.org

Active Travel Officer: Workplaces

• Engagement is key to empower staff to make lifestyle-integrated active travel choices

• Active travel significantly benefits staff health and wellbeing

• Benefits made measurable through robust monitoring and evaluation by Sustrans

‘To increase awareness of using the workplace as a setting to positively impact the health

and wellbeing of employees’

Sustainable Transport = Active Travel

Walking Public Transport Cycling

Some statistics…

For every 100 employees Sustrans engage in our full package of activities, we achieve per year:

• Reduction of 24 sick days• Improved well being in 61 employees• Increased productivity• 6% reduction in commuting by car• A reduction of up to 38 tonnes of CO2

The typical benefits of our projects deliver estimated savings to organisations of a minimum of £7,500 a year for every 100 employees engaged

Leading the Way with Active Travel

Funded by: Participating organisations:

Baseline survey of 1714 employees in these organisations has identified the barriers to active travel.

Sustrans has tailored engagement plans for each workplace, and feeds back to employers accordingly to help overcome these barriers.

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

Led cycles and walks

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

Led cycles and walks

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

• Cycle route planning

Route planning with the Sustrans National Cycle Network

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

• Cycle route planning

• Cycle training

National Standard on-road Cycle training

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

• Cycle route planning

• Cycle training• Dr Bike clinics and

mechanic demosDr Bike clinics and mechanic demonstrations

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

• Cycle route planning

• Cycle training• Dr Bike clinics and

mechanic demos• Information and

engagement stalls

Information & engagementstalls

Leading the Way with Active Travel

• Led cycles and walks

• Bike to work days and breakfasts

• Cycle route planning

• Cycle training• Dr Bike clinics and

mechanic demos• Information and

engagement stalls• Workplace

Champion trainingInformation & engagementstalls

The Active Belfast ChallengeMay 2015

Your Challenge, if you choose to accept it…

• Register your workplace for free• Encourage your employees to log sustainable journeys

(walking, running, cycling, car-sharing, public transport…) in return for rewards

• Reap the benefits of an engaged, healthier workforce driven by healthy competition between staff and other workplaces

• Maximum participation is the aim

Register at

www.abc.getmeactive.org.uk

The Active Belfast ChallengeMay 2015

Register at

www.abc.getmeactive.org.uk

The Active Belfast ChallengeMay 2015

Register at

www.abc.getmeactive.org.uk

Thank you

Improving Healthier Choices

Drink Work and Me

Lorraine Black, Addiction NIRuth Cunningham, Michelin Tyres

Counselling, support and

information services for those affected

by alcohol and drug use.

Supporting individuals, families,

communities and professionals with

regards to substance use,

suicide, self-harm and mental health

crisis

Supporting companies to do

business in a responsible way.

Providing social research services to

clients in the not-for-profit sector.

Partners

Findings• 58% view it as an important issue

• 57% believe alcohol has negatively impacted

business

• 43% don’t know how to deal with the issue

80% want to positively impact wellbeing by focussing on the issue

AimTo raise awareness of alcohol related harm by offering information and support services to employees, their families, and their communities.

Test your knowledge

• Quiz

• What does 1 unit of alcohol look like?

Achieving our aims

Business needs and priorities

Education &

Prevention

Intervention &

TreatmentLegacy

Education and prevention• To provide information and to encourage

individual awareness of alcohol related harm.

• To empower line managers to address the negative impact of alcohol use and enable them to support their employees, if an issue arises.

General Awareness Training

Line Management Training

Intervention and treatment• To enable individuals to be proactive in how they

manage their alcohol intake.

• To provide tailored help and support to those living with the negative impact of alcohol use.

• Services will be tailored to the needs of each individual, and will range from a single session to a twelve week programme.

Self-Help Website

Brief Intervention

Counselling

Legacy

• To support employers in developing the resources required to ensure a sustainable and lasting legacy.

Learning Network

Drink, Work and Me Champion

Workplace Alcohol Trainers

Trusted Colleagues

Toolkit

Questions?

• If you would like further information please contact us on 028 9066 4434

• Or email lorraine.black@addictionni.com

Counselling, support and information services for

those affected by alcohol and drug use.

Supporting individuals,

families, communities

and professionals with regards to substance use, suicide, self-harm and mental health

crisis.

Supporting companies to do business

in a responsible

way.

Providing social

research services to

clients in the not-for-profit

sector.

Partners

Findings• 58% view it as an important issue

• 57% believe alcohol has negatively impacted

business

• 43% don’t know how to deal with the issue

80% want to positively impact wellbeing by focussing on the issue

AimTo raise awareness of alcohol related harm by offering information and support services to employees, their families, and their communities.

Test your knowledge

Quiz

What does 1 unit of alcohol look like?

Achieving our aimsBusines

s needs

and priorities

Education &

Prevention

Intervention & Treatment

Legacy

Education and prevention• To provide information and to encourage

individual awareness of alcohol related harm.

• To empower line managers to address the negative impact of alcohol use and enable them to support their employees, if an issue arises.

General Awareness Training

Line Management Training

Intervention and treatment• To enable individuals to be proactive in how they

manage their alcohol intake.

• To provide tailored help and support to those living with the negative impact of alcohol use.

• Services will be tailored to the needs of each individual, and will range from a single session to a twelve week programme.

Self-help website

Brief intervention

Counselling

Legacy

To support employers in developing the resources required to ensure a sustainable and lasting legacy.

Learning Network

Drink, Work and Me Champion

Workplace Alcohol Trainers

Trusted Colleagues

Toolkit

Ruth Cunningham, Michelin Tyres

Questions?