Wesley Medical Research, The Wesley Hospital, Auchenflower, Qld, Australia.
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
Health Promot J Austr. 2019 Apr;30(2):228-237. doi: 10.1002/hpja.200. Epub 2018 Sep 19.
"Workplace health promotion and protection" broadly refers to an integrated approach to workplace health and safety initiatives. There are substantial benefits to adopting such an approach, including the potential for: improvements to individual employees' health and well-being; increased productivity; and reduced safety risks and expenses. Yet many employers remain reluctant to shift from traditional safety initiatives and spending. This paper aims to demonstrate the value of investing in an integrated health promotion and protection approach by calculating the productivity costs associated with 11 modifiable health risks and 14 chronic conditions in an Australian mining company.
Eight hundred and ninety-seven employees participated in a self-report health survey aimed at investigating employee health behaviours, health conditions and productivity.
Overall, modifiable health risks and chronic health conditions were calculated to contribute to an estimated $22.15 million (AUD) and $7.95 million (AUD) in lost productivity per 1000 employees per annum, respectively. Although employee stress was identified as the third highest prevalence health risk across the employee sample (at 42%), it accounted for the highest financial burden.
Employee health plays a vital role in the profitability, productivity, and safety outcomes of an organisation. For modifiable health risks and chronic conditions, ailments that affected cognition resulted in the highest financial burden (ie, stress and migraine headaches). SO WHAT?: These findings make a strong financial and business case for the integration of preventative health and safety initiatives, with particular emphasis on modifiable health risk behaviours.
“工作场所健康促进和保护”广义上是指一种综合的工作场所健康和安全措施方法。采取这种方法有很多好处，包括：提高员工个人的健康和福祉；提高生产力；降低安全风险和成本。然而，许多雇主仍然不愿意从传统的安全措施和支出转变。本文旨在通过计算澳大利亚一家矿业公司 11 种可改变的健康风险和 14 种慢性疾病相关的生产力成本，来证明投资于综合健康促进和保护方法的价值。
897 名员工参与了一项自我报告的健康调查，旨在调查员工的健康行为、健康状况和生产力。
总体而言，可改变的健康风险和慢性健康状况估计每年使每位员工损失 2215 万澳元（AUD）和 795 万澳元（AUD）的生产力。尽管员工压力被确定为员工样本中第三大普遍存在的健康风险（占 42%），但它造成的经济负担最高。
员工健康对组织的盈利能力、生产力和安全结果至关重要。对于可改变的健康风险和慢性疾病，影响认知的疾病造成了最高的经济负担（即压力和偏头痛）。那么：这些发现为整合预防健康和安全措施提供了强有力的财务和商业案例，特别强调可改变的健康风险行为。
