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08/04/2003
New health strategy for work launched
A new health strategy for Northern Ireland that protects, promotes and supports health and well being has been launched today.
Working for Health aims to enhance the health of local people at work and reduce the toll of work-related illness.
The implementation of the strategy is set be taken forward by a new partnership, the Workplace Health Strategy Implementation Group, which will be chaired by Liam McBrinn, the current Chairperson of HSENI.
Speaking at the launch, Mr McBrinn said: “Working for Health represents a commitment by Government Departments, District Councils, Employers, Trade Unions, Occupational Health Professionals and other key stakeholders to work in partnership to improve the standard of health in the workplace.
“It fully complements the public health strategy, Investing for Health, which was published by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety last year and which clearly identified the workplace as a key setting for improving peoples’ health.”
Last year an estimated 70,000 people in Northern Ireland said they suffered from a condition caused or made worse by work.
Around 365,000 working days are lost each year due to work-related ill health - the equivalent of 1,000 people being off work each and every day of the year.
The financial cost to the local economy is so large that the bill for work-related ill health in Northern Ireland could rise to as much as £330 million each year.
(MB)
Working for Health aims to enhance the health of local people at work and reduce the toll of work-related illness.
The implementation of the strategy is set be taken forward by a new partnership, the Workplace Health Strategy Implementation Group, which will be chaired by Liam McBrinn, the current Chairperson of HSENI.
Speaking at the launch, Mr McBrinn said: “Working for Health represents a commitment by Government Departments, District Councils, Employers, Trade Unions, Occupational Health Professionals and other key stakeholders to work in partnership to improve the standard of health in the workplace.
“It fully complements the public health strategy, Investing for Health, which was published by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety last year and which clearly identified the workplace as a key setting for improving peoples’ health.”
Last year an estimated 70,000 people in Northern Ireland said they suffered from a condition caused or made worse by work.
Around 365,000 working days are lost each year due to work-related ill health - the equivalent of 1,000 people being off work each and every day of the year.
The financial cost to the local economy is so large that the bill for work-related ill health in Northern Ireland could rise to as much as £330 million each year.
(MB)
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