Campaigns

Clarity
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:

  Develop an alcohol policy
     
  Devise procedures to confidently deal with alcohol-related problems
     
  Help to identify problems in your workplace due to alcohol misuse
     
  Understand the legal, productivity and health benefits of having a good policy in place
     
  Raise awareness with employees of sensible drinking levels and employment expectations
     
  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

 

Psst Campaign   

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:

  Developed and produced a ‘Guide to implementing a workplace alcohol policy’ for employers
     
  Assisted businesses to implement alcohol policies within the workplace
     
  Carried out health days where we attend and pass out information and general advice
     
  Developed a training course aimed at publicans and employers
     
  Developed workplace policies aimed at controlling employee and customer consumption
     
  Made links with other national PCT ’s to identify and share best practice
     

 

Smokefree Liverpool   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:

  Continuing to work with employers to help with any smoking issues following the legislation.
     
  Support SmokeFree Liverpool with their new initiative SmokeFree Kids and to help disseminate this message through businesses and individuals.
     
  Assist and support in the delivery of outputs outlined in the new Tobacco Control Strategy 2008 - 2011
     
     

Tobacco Control Strategy 2008-2011


 

Smoke Free Kids

 

Smokefree Kids

 


SmokeFree Kids is the newest campaign from SmokeFree Liverpool.

It 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.

 

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.