Northumbrian Water Health & Wellbeing initiative 2009

NWL Health & Well-being Initiative was developed to help improve employee motivation, engagement and flexibility to enable the business to meet expectations of regulators and shareholders.  It encourages employees to take a more proactive approach to managing their own health, improves the health, safety and wellbeing of employees and enables the company to reduce the cost of absence, ill health retirements and other health related costs.

Processes
The programme has 4 strands:  occupational health which focuses on periodic health assessments, ensuring employees are fit for their role; RehabWorks (physiotherapy) to try to reduce as well as assist with Musculo-skeletal Disorders (MSDs); health and well-being and stress management.