Janet Morrison
Organisational Health Consultant
Croydon Council
Croydon Council joined Activate Your Workplace (AYW) to help reduce sickness absence and show a commitment to the duty of care to staff. Janet Morrison, who was working as an Organisational Health Consultant in the council, recognised the potential of the programme and took on the responsibility of being a Workplace Health Champion.
There are over 12,000 staff in the council and AYW has had really positive results so far in motivating staff to adopt healthier behaviours. Janet set up many interventions, which have always been fully subscribed. A particularly popular intervention was a ‘Weight Loss Challenge’ that offered support to staff who wanted to lose weight through offering them advice around healthy eating at work and at home.
It is hoped AYW will help Croydon Council promote the importance of health at work and enable the council to put in policies to buy in management to help sustain the programme in the future.
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