Campaigns
Clarity Alcohol Campaign - Clearer Heads Equals Good Business
Work-related alcohol misuse costs the economy up to £6.4 billion a year, with 17 million working days lost annually in England alone, due to alcohol related sickness.*
Health@Work, in partnership with the Liverpool Primary Care Trust, has launched the Clarity Workplace Alcohol Campaign. We want to combat alcohol misuse in work and offer help to employers in developing workplace alcohol policies for their employees.
Our Clarity team will help employers:
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Develop an alcohol policy | |
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Devise procedures to confidently deal with alcohol-related problems | |
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Help to identify problems in your workplace due to alcohol misuse | |
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Understand the legal, productivity and health benefits of having a good policy in place | |
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Raise awareness with employees of sensible drinking levels and employment expectations | |
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Gain access to free specialist support services and information resources | |
We are visiting many businesses over the next few months to hand out ‘miniature campaign bags’ which includes all information to help employers get underway.
If you haven’t been visited by one of our campaigners you can receive a full, free, Workplace Alcohol Campaign pack, to issue to employees as part of your team meetings or ongoing health promotions.
Contact 0151 236 6608 to receive your free campaign bag.
*Figures based on Cabinet Office statistics 2003
Health@Work in partnership with Liverpool PCT is running a campaign this Christmas to promote sensible drinking. We have also devised an alternative Christmas gifts leaflet that has been mailed out to numerous businesses, offering alternative ideas to buying alcohol as gifts.
Please click on the links below for further information:
Health, Work and Well-Being
Cancer Screening Cards and Liverpool PCT Health Promotion Events Calendar 2009
The "Cancer Screening Information Card’’ to signs and symptoms is an attractive, new and innovative resource where information about the three screening options is displayed in a friendly and easy to read format. The card has a handy, tear-off, wallet sized reference card featuring the breast, bowel and cervical screening contact numbers and target age groups. Screening Card
Registration is now open for Health Promotion’s 2009 health campaigns.
This year, we are offering a range of eleven monthly themes which incorporate existing health campaign days/weeks.
For further information or to register, visit our website at http://www.lhps.org.uk or contact:
Sandra King on 707 1555, Ext 102.
Once registered, your details will be added to our database and you will automatically be sent pack(s) for those campaigns you wish to support. Your pack(s) will contain sufficient materials to enable you to create a small display with a range of supporting leaflets.
Liverpool PCT Health Promotion events
Front Desk Fruit Scheme
It’s well known that eating fresh fruit and veg has a positive impact on health but for many people working in the Liverpool area, access to fresh fruit can be a problem.
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has developed a partnership with Health@Work and a local fruit supplier to help employers and employees gain access to fresh produce at cost price.
Providing fruit on a reception desk of a workplace is a way of drawing attention to important health messages and improving access to fresh fruit. The best way to achieve 5-a-day is to eat fruit and veg between meals.
How does it work?
This scheme is simple to set up and once running requires little input. In general it operates in the following way:
- Fruit delivered by local supplier on a weekly basis
- Delivery times to suit your requirements
- Set up cost funded by 5-a-day
- Staff and visitors pay cost price for fruit (average 15p per item) or businesses may fund allowing users to access free fruit.
- Set up fund and equipment provided (fruit basket, money box)
- Ongoing support from Liverpool Primary Care trust 5-a-day programme
please click the link below to view the “5 a Day Workplace Offer 2008 findings. workplace offer results
Please click here for further information
Healthy Workplaces
The workplace can have a powerful effect on your health and how you feel can affect your work. When you consider the amount of time we spend in work we should really be making the most of opportunities to look after our health and eating healthily.
Some employees are fortunate to have access to onsite canteens offering healthy options, water coolers, fresh fruit and fridges to keep lunchtime foods. Unfortunately many don’t have access to all this. It is however reasonably easy to improve your health and your colleagues health, without high costs. All that is needed is a little imagination and someone to help things along.
Health@Work in partnership with Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) (5-A-DAY, Taste For Health) has developed this booklet to help you understand a number of health, work and wellbeing issues and provide some basic options to help you on your road to a healthy workplace.
Please click here for further information
PSSST! Campaign
Health@Work has been commissioned by Liverpool PCT to deliver a number of outputs relating to alcohol and the workplace. We have linked into Liverpool PCT – Pssst! Campaign and have accessed materials which we are able to issue to businesses. The aim of this work is to promote sensible drinking with the employees while working with the owners/managers to implement policies and procedures around alcohol.
To date we have:
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Developed and produced a ‘Guide to implementing a workplace alcohol policy’ for employers | |
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Assisted businesses to implement alcohol policies within the workplace | |
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Carried out health days where we attend and pass out information and general advice | |
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Developed a training course aimed at publicans and employers | |
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Developed workplace policies aimed at controlling employee and customer consumption | |
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Made links with other national PCT ’s to identify and share best practice | |
Smokefree Project
Health@Work has been a lead partner in the SmokeFree Liverpool campaign since its launch in March 2004. With the success of the legislation in July 2007, Health@Work continue to support SmokeFree Liverpool through their next initiatives. There are many new angles to this work including:
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Continuing to work with employers to help with any smoking issues following the legislation. | |
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Support SmokeFree Liverpool with their new initiative SmokeFree Kids and to help disseminate this message through businesses and individuals. | |
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Assist and support in the delivery of outputs outlined in the new Tobacco Control Strategy 2008 - 2011 | |
Tobacco Control Strategy 2008-2011
Smokefree Kids
SmokeFree Kids is designed to bring home the message that smoking around young people can cause serious health problems.
We are not asking people to stop smoking but aim to provide advice and support on how to avoid smoking around children, whether it is in the car, in the home or any other environment.
Children and young people are not fully protected by the current smokefree legislation which prohibits smoking in enclosed workplaces, but they do deserve the same protection.
Research carried out by SmokeFree Liverpool showed that 95% of people in the city - including smokers - believe it is wrong to smoke near children.
SmokeFree Movies is an evidence based campaign, which centres round young people’s health vs the
commercial gain of the tobacco industry.
The SmokeFree Liverpool youth group, D-MYST (Direct
Movement by the Youth SmokeFree Team) has took on the issue of SmokeFree Movies, similar to many
youths they believed that they were being targeted by the tobacco industry and that by removing
smoking from youth rated films would not take anything away from the films itself but would prevent
many taking up the habit.
The facts about smoking in movies are “scary!!”
- Did you know that 52% of young people start smoking after seeing it in the movies!
- Health concerns rise as we learn that 80% of people start to smoke before the age of 19!
- 1,650 young people in Liverpool alone started smoking because of exposure to smoking in films!!
D-MYST (Direct Movement by the Youth
SmokeFree Team) is a group run by, and for
young people to voice their opinions on
tobacco and smoking.
For more information
visit:
www.d-myst.info or www.smokefreeliverpool.com.
Workers Safety Advisory Challenge Fund
Health@Work won third year bid to deliver the (HSC) Health and Safety Commission, ‘Workers Safety Challenge Fund’ project in Liverpool.
The funding enabled H@W to target SME’s from the Muslim and Ethnic business sector. The aim of the project was to help improve health and safety standards in the workplace. A further aim was to improve employee/ employer communication on relevant health and safety matters.
Having carried out research – the Muslim/ ethnic businesses appeared to have little/ no support in the health and safety area. H@W in partnership with (MEDS) Muslim Enterprise Development Service targeted 60 businesses at the start of the project – April 06. By the end of the project we successfully complete 63. These businesses included: Food outlets, community based centres, Mosques, internet cafes, building services and offices
The services provided by H@W included: full health and safety audit, written report with recommendations for improvement, multi lingual leaflets/ literature, signage, formal H&S training and small business starter pack
Providing the multi-lingual information helped employers communicate good health and safety practices with employees. Many used the team meeting environment to raise H&S issues with staff.
To close the project H@W and MEDS organised a certificate presentation event at the Al Ghazali Centre for all project participants.
Following an introduction to the event, Andy Hull – chair of H@W and Divisional manager public protection and Galib Khan – Company secretary MEDS presented certificates to all participants/ business representatives
This is the first time a piece of work, like this, has been delivered in Liverpool. All participants have welcomed the support and have actively taken part It is hoped that further projects will enable the continues improvement of health and safety within these and other BME workplaces.
