Good leadership key to healthy workforce

The vital role that strong leadership
plays in transforming an
organisation’s health and safety
culture has been stressed at the
British Safety Council’s conference
Transforming the culture of
workplace health and safety.

Speakers from organisations
with exceptional health and safety
records offered an insight into how
they have transformed the health
and safety culture in their own
organisations. adidas, the Dawn
Group, Diageo Packaging,
Linklaters and Wylfa Power Station
have all gone beyond compliance
and legal requirement to invest
time and effort to reduce days lost
through ill health and injury.

adidas spoke about how it has
seen employee sickness rates drop
to below the national average
thanks to the introduction of an
employee wellness programme.