Questions
1. What is the ‘National Strategy For A Healthy Police Service’ and how does it impact on the workplace?
2. Outline the possible causes of stress and the impacts these can have on an individual and the organisation. How can these impacts be reduced?
3. How can your organisations attendance management be most effectively utlised?
The National Strategy for a Healthy Police Service was implemented on the 18th May 2007 with specific aims which are:-
• Promoting the case for good health and safety management, highlighting the business benefits, legal obligations and benefits for officer and police staff well being.
• Promoting effective safety management systems that include the visible leadership of Chief Officers and their Command teams.
• Communicating and sharing good ideas through the NPIA and various forces, to ensure the widespread application of benefits to/for all forces.
• Setting the standards that reflect best practice and making use of the experience and knowledge available throughout the service to ensure that there are the mechanisms in place to achieve agreed standards.
• Working in partnership with, and through, other agencies to improve health and safety.
• Supporting action plans and campaigns designed to build on past achievements.
• Providing information on, and informing all parties about, relevant standards, legislation and codes of practice, ensuring there is consultation on legislative changes that impact on the ability of the service to deliver this strategy.
In order to achieve this agreements and responsibilities were set between the various parties with vested interests which included The National Police Improvement Agency, in partnership with Chief Officers, ACPO, Police Authorities, H.M.I.C in partnership with HSE the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate and the Home Office. The underlying intention is from one borne by the Government Ministerial Task Force document ‘Managing sickness absence in the Public Sector’ (pub. Nov 2004) and is to be applied to all aspects of the Public Sector workforce and so far in the last 9 years, the Police service has been more successful than most of its public sector counterparts in reducing absence.
The aim therefore of this new strategy is to continue to seek reductions in absence through ill health or injury with the following targets being set:-
•Reduce the number of working days lost from work related injury and ill health, by 30% by 2010;
• Reduce the incidence rate of fatalities and major injuries by 10% by 2010;
• Reduce the incidence of work related ill health by 20% by 2010;
• Reduce the number of workdays lost due to work related ill health by 30% by 2010
...ter for obese individuals than for average weight individuals. The healthier workers are, the fewer medical services they use. The five leading causes of death in the U.S., heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes — are directly linked to unhealthy lifestyles. Clearly, encouraging healthful habits presents an opportunity to improve workers’ well being, reduce the need for medical services and help control costs.
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