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Description

Building for health in the EC workplace
Working conditions

Sujets

• Labour law
• Occupational safety and health
• Workplace
• Member state of the European Union
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: EUROFOUND-EUROPEAN-FOUNDATION-FOR-THE-IMPROVEMENT-OF-LIVING-AND-WORKING-CONDITIO
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

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Building for Health in
the EC Workplace
Loughlinstown House,
Shankill, Co. Dublin, Ireland UNDER
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Building for Health in
the EC Workplace
EF/92/16/EN *ΐ-ί** European Foundation
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Building for Health in
the EC Workplace
by
Richard Wynne
Nadia Clarkin
Work Research Centre
Loughlinstown House, Shankill, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Telex: 30726 EURF EI Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1992
ISBN 92-826-4629-7
© European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
1992.
For rights of translation or reproduction, applications should be made to the
Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions, Loughlinstown House, Shankill, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Printed in Ireland TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. Why the Interest in Workplace Health ? 1
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Supra-national influences on health actions in the workplace 2
1.3 Problems in delivery of health actions in the workplace 3
1.4 The benefits of health actions 7
1.5 Opportunities for Developing Workplace Actions 9
1.6 Changes in the nature of work 13
1.7 So why the interest in Workplace Health ?6
2. What Are We Talking About?7
2.1 What is Workplace Action for Health - What the objectives are 1
2.2 What isen forh - 21
Examples of good practice
Germany - A Large Company and Integrated Health Policy 23
Italy: Health Promotion In The Ceramics industry 24
Portugal - Health, safety and quality of life in a local authority 27
Ireland - Social wellbeing in a rural area 30
The Netherlands - The "Healthier Work" project2
The UK - The Welsh Heart Programme5
Greece - the evolution of in-company health services 38
The Netherlands - Improving VDU Work 41
Spain - Applying health promotion principles3
Sweden - A Practical Example of Improving Wellbeing at Work 46
2.3 So what are we talking about ? 48 V I
3. The Playing Field - The Official Story. 51
3.1 Introduction 5
3.2 Legislative developments2
3.3 The attitudes of key actors 69
3.4 So what is the Official Story ? 7
4. The Reality of Workplace Health 83
4.1 Questionnaire development
4.2 Sampling 84
4.3 Response rates5
4.4 Demographics of the sample6
4.5 Company Health Characteristics 88
4.6 Health actions in the workplace 93
4.7 So what is the reality ofe health ? 99
5. What Actually Influences Workplace Health Actions ? 101
5.1 Introduction 10
5.2 Were there national differences in the samples 104
5.3 What was most important in explaining health activity8
5.4 So what does influence workplace health actions ? 117
6. Establishing Health Actions 119
6.1 Why do organisations undertake health actions 11
6.2 Who participates in these health actions 125
6.3 Does involvement predict health activity8
6.4 What are the barriers to health action 130
6.5 How are barriers to health action overcome3
6.6 Overcoming barriers to action on workplace health 14
6.7 So how are workplace health actions established ?5 Vi l
7. What Does It All Mean? 147
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Legislation
7.3 The views of the major actors8
7.4 Lessons from the case studies9
7.5s from the survey 151
7.6 The situation of SME's3
7.7 National differences4
7.8 Lessons on participation5
7.9 Future prospects for workplace health promotion 156
8. What needs to happen ? 16
8.1 Introduction1
Recommendation 1 - Information dissemination 164 n 2 - Research6 n 3 - Training8
Recommendation 4 - Legislation 170 n 5 - Enforcement of legislation 17n 6 - Methodology for the establishment of 173
workplace health promotion
Recommendation 7 - Small to medium enterprises and 175
health promotion n 8 - Health structures in the workplace6
Recommendation 9 - Participation in workplace health actions 178
8.2 An action plan to encourage workplace health promotion 179
References 183
Appendices
Appendix 1 Reports published from the research programme
Appendix 2 Research instrument Vil l
List of Tables
Table 1.1 The eight national research agencies v
Table 3.1 Summary of the interviews conducted 69
Table 4.1 Response rates in the different countries 85
Table 4.2 Health Problems of employees 8
Table 4.3h risks in the workplace - Findings from 91
the Eurobarometer survey
Table 4.4 Proportion of activities which have health8
as a consideration
Table 5.1 Dependent and independent variables 102
used in the analyses
Table 5.2 Economic sector by country 104
Table 5.3 Ownership by country5
Table 5.4 Company size by country6
Table 5.5 Levels of trade union membership by country 107
Table 5.6 Company health characteristics by country
Table 6.1 Prompting factors and the benefits of health actions 121
Table 6.2 Spontaneously reporteds of 123
establishing health actions
Table 6.3 Most important predictors of health activity9
Table 6.4 Spontaneously reported problems in establishing 131
health actions
Table 6.5 Job titles of respondents who completed 133
the questionnaire
Table 6.6 Successful strategies used to overcome barriers4
to health actions
Table 8.1 Summary of the recommendations 161