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Best Workplace

Could you be Lambeth’s Best workplace?

Health and wellbeing at work: why bother?

Work is good for us and gives us meaning, purpose and an income. However, bad work costs businesses money. Stress has now over taken muscular skeletal pain as the biggest cause of sickness absence . The cost of mental ill health to employers is estimated at £25.9 billion and rising. The cost of presenteeism (workers turning up for work when they are feeling ill) is one and a half times greater than absenteeism.

  • Investing in your staff’s general health and mental wellbeing will help your business:
  • reduce the cost of sickness absence
  • increase productivity and creativity
  • improve staff retention
  • increase commitment and job satisfaction
  • reduce insurance costs
  • reduce training and recruitment costs
  • enhance company reputation
  • build better staff morale
  • improve customer satisfaction

Support available from NHS Lambeth to businesses entering the Lambeth Business Awards

  • Lambeth specific ‘Best workplace’ resource available from http://www.lambethfirst.org.uk/whatwedo/mentalwellbeing/mywellbeing/ with information to support and resources to help you improve workplace health and wellbeing
  • Brief telephone advice for businesses submitting applications to the ‘Best workplace’ category to Lambeth Business Awards.
  • A FREE Wellbeing Impact Assessment for one Lambeth business. This will help you review your workplace and put together a set of no cost of low cost actions to improve wellbeing at work.
  • Provide sign posting to best practice and resources that can help you take action.

Click Here to view a presentation of the winner of the 2011 Best Workplace category and their experience of the Lambeth Business Awards

For more information email wellbeing@lambethpct.nhs.uk