Pain Summit Presentation

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chronic pain – workplace impact

15 May 2012

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today…

• the business case

• individuals, interventions and strategies

• ‘transforming your care’

• case study

say status is directly affected

71%

can’t work

42%

worry about career prospects

42%

worry about losing their job

28%

want to work and contribute

65%

feel socially isolated

43%

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It’s the employer’s job to create an environment where employees can make healthy lifestyle choices, but employees must take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

Professor Cary Cooper CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University & Chair of Academy of Social Sciences

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the business case

Business benefits of a healthy workforce

Improved retention

Improved resilience

Higher commitment

Higher productivity

Fewer accidents

and claims

Reduced sickness

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interventions and strategy

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case study

• health & wellbeing is physical, mental and social

• we owe employees a duty of care regarding health & wellbeing

• work affects health and vice versa

• promoting health and wellbeing will increase employee satisfaction, engagement to improve

performance through real results by employees

• be an employer of choice

• increase competitiveness & profitability

• the future of the site

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• absence levels less than 2% well below NI and national average

• production specific metrics

• productivity increased leading to investment

• workplace accidents reduced

• near miss incidents reported

• healthy eating – vending machines

• part of CSR Policy

• attained IiP HWB Accreditation

case study

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