52 HEALTH AND WELLBEING


Lisa Lewis


Adrian Leather


Ashley Alderson


MAKING HEALTH YOUR STRATEGIC PRIORITY


Lancashire businesses and organisations that treat health and wellbeing as a strategic priority are reaping the rewards, the conference was told.


In a panel session on physical wellbeing, Lisa Lewis, health and safety manager at The Senator Group, shared details of the office furniture design and manufacturing company’s ‘All About You’ campaign.


The initiative, which began as a simple poster campaign, has grown and developed with the aid of feedback from the workforce. Looking at those who had engaged with it, Lisa said: “It


has opened up a more positive dialogue.”


The strategy includes bringing people into the business to give demonstrations and engage with workers. ‘Wellbeing Champions” have been recruited from the workforce and there is, she says, “a focus on positive wellbeing.”


The campaign also includes an occupational health strategy. Blood pressure monitoring has been offered to staff, with work underway to make other health tests available.


Senator has also invested in an employee assistance programme, with 700 staff signed


up to use an app which offers a whole range of support.


Adrian Leather, chief executive of Active Lancashire, told the conference: “The key issues affecting individual businesses are basically around the resilience of employees.


“We saw that during Covid when Lancashire was disproportionally affected. It’s also about young people and stress, anxiety and depression and their inability to drive the organisation forward and become the leaders of tomorrow.”


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