Health promotion
Health promotion helps to educate and motivate employees, and their families, on the benefits of maintaining healthier lifestyles. This can help to safeguard against physical and mental illness and prevent existing conditions from becoming worse.
All our businesses provide health-screening checks for employees and many operate structured wellness programmes. Our health and wellness initiatives are well-received by employees and received awards from prominent external organisations.
Sometimes it is virtually impossible to avoid illness – during a widespread influenza outbreak for example – which presents a significant risk to business continuity and the health of our employees and contractors. However, it is possible to take measures to mitigate the impact of outbreaks.
There have been a number of pandemic flu outbreaks, the most recent being swine flu (H1N1). We have provided basic hygiene advice for flu prevention to all employees and guidance to managers on how to respond when employees report flu-like symptoms.
In Europe we issued guidelines on emergency preparedness for pandemic flu in April 2009, and all sites have ensured that their contingency plans are appropriate to minimise the risk to employees and the business.
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