Building a health and wellbeing
strategy – our journey
Chris Jones MA MSc FRSPH
Head of Health and Wellness Strategy
Network Rail
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Background…
34,000 employees
100,000+ contractors working on/around infrastructure
Devolved organisation:
Network Rail Central Functions:
- Make the business more effective
Routes and Infrastructure Projects
- Make the business more efficient
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Why a health and wellbeing strategy?
Uncertainty regarding
management of health hazards
and compliance
Desire to move away
from reactive approach
Board ambition to
address ‘wellbeing”
Greater
regulatory focus
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Our Health and Wellbeing Vision and Strategy
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To deliver our vision, we have set a series
of strategic outcome objectives…
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Health and wellbeing are recognised as
cornerstones of organisational success
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Network Rail people, and those working in
its supply chain, are healthy, safe and high
performing
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Network Rail is a great place to work
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Our strategic outputs are key to delivering the
outcomes…
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Integrate health and wellbeing into
every Network Rail activity
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Eliminate all cases of new or
worsening occupational health
conditions
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Increase the proportion of our people
meeting recommendations for healthy
behaviours
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Reduce the proportion of our people at
risk of preventable chronic diseases
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Increase the proportion of our people
with high levels of mental wellbeing
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Our Strategic
Areas of Focus
Adapted with permission from BITC WorkWell Model
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Our model for turning strategy into action
Strategy
Vision
Outcomes
“Everyone fit for the future”
Health as a cornerstone of NR; our people are healthy, safe
and high performing; NR is a great place to work
Management system Integrated
Plan
Commitments Healthy Workplace
Themes
Opportunities for
Wellbeing
Supportive Culture
Insight and
Guidance
2 – 8 themes per commitment (13 themes in total), 1 – 5 projects per
theme (41 projects in total)
Actions
Who is going to do what by when. SMART
OHSMS
Plan, Do, Check, Act: OHSAS 18001
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Healthy Workplace – Roadmap
2014
‘15
‘16
‘17
‘18
‘19
‘20
Key project
‘21
‘22
‘23
‘24
Engineer reductions in exposure to HAV
Hand Arm
Monitoring of HAV exposure
Vibration
Organisational understanding of HAV
HAV Standard update and Route/BU local improvement plans
Respiratory
Hazards
Engineer reductions in exposure to respiratory hazards
Organisational understanding of respiratory hazards
Respiratory hazard Standard update and Route/BU
local improvement plans
Noise at
Work
Engineer reductions in exposure to noise at work
Organisational understanding of noise hazards
Noise at work standard update and Route/BU local
improvement plans
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Opportunities for Wellbeing –
Roadmap
2014
‘15
‘16
‘17
‘18
‘19
Key project
‘20
‘21
‘22
‘23
‘24
Mental wellbeing policy and Route/BU local improvement plans
Mental
Organisational understanding of mental wellbeing
Wellbeing
Mental wellbeing skills and capability
Mental wellbeing interventions
Mental wellbeing culture and resources
Health Self-
Awareness
Health self-awareness Route/BU local improvement plans
Health self-awareness tools and interventions
Health self-awareness culture
Health
Promotion
and
Wellbeing policies
Organisational understanding of health and wellbeing
Healthy culture and interventions
Wellbeing
Physical wellbeing Route/BU
local improvement plans
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(Some of) our progress so far…
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More information…
www.safety.networkrail.co.uk/healthandwellbeing
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Thank You
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