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Shifting gears in workplace health and wellbeing: Victorian update
Denise Laughlin
Senior Public Health Advisor
Population Health and Prevention Strategy
Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria
Prevention challenge of the 21st Century
It remains that with the exception of tobacco, our efforts have, as yet, had little effect in achieving the core goal of prevention to improve the health of the population and reduce preventable illness from chronic disease.
The enormity of chronic disease in Australia
“Many economists argue that the low hanging productivity fruit has been picked. But there are big gains to be made in areas like chronic disease prevention that normally gets put in the social policy basket”
Craig Emerson, Australian Financial Review, 28 September 2015
Preventable chronic disease and the workforce
Why is prevention important to workplaces?
A shared problem, from different perspectives
Key developments in workplace health in Victoria
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
WorkHealth commenced
Premier’s Healthy
Workers and Families
Taskforce
Healthy Together Victoria
commenced
Achievement Program for workplaces
commenced
WorkHealth Improvement
Networks
Victorian Public Health and
Wellbeing Plan (2015- 2019)
National Partnership on
Preventive Health signed
Healthy Workers Initiative
Victorian Public Health
and Wellbeing Act 2008 enacted
Victorian Public Health and
Wellbeing Plan (2011 -2015)
Targeted local investment in
12 areas (representing 14
LGAs)
Ministerial WorkHealth
Advisory Group announced
WorkHealth checks
commenced
WorkHealth checks
concluded
WorkHealth – a statewide workplace health promotion initiative (2008-2013)
A voluntary program delivered by WorkSafe Victoria dedicated to educating and empowering employers and workers
800,000 WorkHealth Checks 38,000 workplaces1,800 workplace grants51,000 workers accessing support programs
‘Culture of care’,
alongside ‘culture of
compliance’
Workplace health
promotion works best
when built on sound OHS
Whole of system approach at scale across local government and the state
Creating healthy environments: the Achievement Program as a framework for prevention
Creating healthy environments in:
• Early childhood services
• Primary schools
• Secondary schools
• Workplaces
Video
Reaching workplaces at scale
Commenced in 2013
•An evidence based health and wellbeing framework
•Best practice benchmarks to achieve
•Guidelines and support available
Registrations to date:
Creating a healthier workplace through the Achievement Program
Quality improvement process
•Leadership commitment and staff engagement are crucial.
•Process to assess organisational priorities and take action to support improvements.
•Focused on five health priorities.
Achievement Program: sign-up across industry sectors
4. What does it look like?
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Achievement Program – Frameworks and benchmarks for health promotion
System evaluation and monitoring
Minister and Mayors Network
Victorian Healthy Eating Enterprise – Creating a vibrant healthy eating culture
Networks of practice
Leadership for Prevention Strategy
Healthy Together ExchangeHealthy Together Patrons
Healthy Food Charter
Health promotion policy for children and young people
Fresh Food RecoveryHealthy Food Connect
Health Champions
Local social marketing campaigns
Healthy Living Programs and Strategies
Combined Prevention teams
Local leadership networks
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Achievement Program
Healthy Living Programs and Strategies
Achievement Program
Healthy Eating and Food Literacy in Secondary Schools
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Achievement Program – Frameworks and benchmarks for health promotion
System evaluation and monitoring
Minister and Mayors Network
Victorian Healthy Eating Enterprise – Creating a vibrant healthy eating culture
Networks of practice
Leadership for Prevention Strategy
Healthy Together ExchangeHealthy Together Patrons
Healthy Food Charter
Health promotion policy for children and young people
Fresh Food RecoveryHealthy Food Connect
Health Champions
Local social marketing campaigns
Healthy Living Programs and Strategies
Combined Prevention teams
Local leadership networks
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Achievement Program
Healthy Living Programs and Strategies
Achievement Program
Healthy Eating and Food Literacy in Secondary Schools
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Active Cities Melbourne
Premier’s Active April
Infant
HelpHer
Knowledge and Data System
CEOs Network
‘Start with’ campaign
Victoria Walks
Healthy by Design
Public Health and Wellbeing Plan
Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans
Healthy Food Procurement for govt and funded services
Healthy Choices for Hospitals
Health economics
Healthy Choices: Healthy eating policy and catering guide for workplaces
Children’s settings networks
Business networks
Life!
Live Lighter campaign
Healthy Together Victoria – expanding the prevention system
Victorian Active Living Enterprise
Annual Conference
Leadership and partnerships at the local level creating change in workplaces…
Leadership from business leaders: •Silver Chef achieves gold with the Healthy Together Achievement Program
Healthy business: • improving Geelong Football Club employees’ health
and wellbeing through participating in the Achievement Program
• encouraging other workplaces to sign up to the Achievement Program
…and creating a healthy community
Healthy community:•Geelong Cats players as Health Champions
•improved provision of healthy food at the Football Stadium
•tools and support for the community to quit smoking
•social media encouraging the community to get healthy together
WorkHealth: from health promotion to an integrated approach to worker health, safety and wellbeing
Integrated approaches to worker health, safety and wellbeing
WorkHealth Improvement Networks
Building on existing efforts to take workplace health further in Victoria
More information
Denise Laughlin
Senior Public Health Advisor
Population Health & Prevention Strategy
Department of Health & Human Services
The ‘waves’ of public health
Fifth wave of Public Health
Systems thinking
Minimise factors that lead to unhealthy
choices
Maximise value of public health
Promote healthy choices as default position
