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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.”
www.makinglifebettertogether.com
Focusing on Life Inequalities
Andrew Steenson
Belfast Strategic Partnership
www.makinglifebettertogether.com
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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?