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Health-Promoting Workplace

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A health-promoting workplace aims to promote the health and well-being of employees. It is a joint project of employers, employees, and society.

Health-Promoting Workplace is a joint project of the Directorate of Health and Virk, but all workplaces in the country have the opportunity to become health-promoting workplaces.

All further information and registration can be found at heilsueflandi.is

Please contact: hvinn@landlaeknir.is

Checklists for Health-Promoting Workplaces:

Improved health and well-being of staff

Most of us spend about half our waking hours at work every weekday. Thus, it is essential that workplaces offer a healthy working environment and that they promote health and well-being in general. Working is good for mental and physical health, but a hostile work environment can lead to physical and psychological health problems and even withdrawal from the labour market.

Benefits of the workplace

  • reduced costs due to employees' absence

  • reduced likelihood of sick days and accidents among employees

  • increased productivity

  • less employee turnover

  • increased innovation

  • improved image

  • a more attractive workplace

Hence, health promotion in workplaces is a good investment in human resources.

Employee benefits

  • improved health

  • increased wellbeing

  • reduced likelihood of accidents and disease

  • increased working capacity and even longer working life

If implementing health promotion is executed well, it will benefit the workplace, employees, families, and society. Emphasis must be placed on systematic health promotion in as many workplaces as possible.