Employer's resource guide
10 years after the first World Heart Day we welcome you the 2010 campaign.
Below you will find a resource guide that will help you keep your employees healthy. Click on the links in red to access the resource guide documents.
Building on 10 years of heart health the theme this year focuses on Workplace Wellness and asks everyone to say: “I Work with Heart”.
1. Background on World Heart Day - This document provides you with an overview of World Heart Day and an introduction to Workplace Wellness.
2. Global, Regional and National Workplace Wellness Initiatives - Research suggests that wellness programmes are an extremely powerful tool that can play a significant role in employee engagement, organizational productivity, talent retention and creativity and innovation . To realise business gains, wellness must be approached strategically and incorporated into a broader organizational framework . National governments as well as international and regional bodies are realizing the potential of workplace wellness, and in recent years have implemented initiatives to encourage businesses to introduce appropriate programmes to promote wellness among employees.
3. The Economic Argument – A healthy workforce can yield real benefits for your business, e.g. increase performance and productivity, and decrease healthcare costs, while increasing the well-being and morale of individual employees. In this document you will find out about the World Economic online Model, a quick and easy way for companies to calculate the return on investment of employee wellness programmes.
4. Workplace Wellness Engagement Ideas - Ideas on how you can make your employees more heart-healthy are given below. Some of the suggestions can be used as one-off concepts that could be implemented on World Heart Day and others can be used as ideas for longer-term implementation. We would encourage you to share your activities through social media and online challenges. You can submit your activities to us, and we can share these through our Facebook page, and through You Tube.
Case Studies
Find out about the workplace wellness activities of different organizations such as:
