Why you should be a healthy company should be beyond question. The idea that a healthy worker is more productive is already an unquestionable reality. Implementing measures to become a healthy company is an important opportunity for improvement and a real differential value for your organization. Do you know all the advantages? We present you the keys to improve the occupational health of your employees: Mens sana in corpore sano to achieve a Healthy Enterprise 4.0.
The human body requires food, exercise and a good mental attitude to stay healthy and develop to its full potential. Much of our well-being is based on good nutrition, which must be varied, adequate, sufficient, well distributed and hygienic.
In short, it is necessary to eat healthily and to be able to enjoy the act of doing so with pleasure, taking advantage of the socializing function it has, since food is also a moment of family reunion, among friends or work colleagues and encourages personal contact.
At Zemsania Global Group we are convinced of the numerous benefits of the Healthy Company and promote, among other measures, the practice of physical exercise, as part of our health and wellness program.
WHO indicates that “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”. For all these reasons, nowadays it is becoming more and more common to take care of oneself. People are increasingly looking for elements to enjoy good overall health, involving the concepts of physical and mental well-being.
The fact of being well and feeling comfortable with oneself generates security in people, and this is extrapolated to the workplace, therefore, companies are increasingly promoting the achievement of this integral health through programs and activities encompassed under the concept of “healthy company”.
This concept must inevitably be ingrained in our country. Moreover, according to a study carried out by a group of researchers from Imperial College London in collaboration with the WHO, Spain is on the podium of the EU countries with the highest number of obese people.
The healthy company model is closely linked to the WHO definition of health. In this case, we can define a Healthy Company as an environment in which managers and workers collaborate in a healthy environment. continuous improvement process to promote and protect worker health, safety and welfare and sustainability of the work environment based on a series of indicators, such as the health and safety of the physical workspace, psychosocial aspects, personal health resources and the ways in which the community seeks to improve the health of workers, their families and other members of the community.
Some of the aspects to be combated by implementing healthy policies are the following stress reduction and the improvement of eating habits. It has also been corroborated that there is a close relationship between the two, so that we can affirm that the presence of stress “helps” to lead to a poorer diet, causing a faster consumption of food of poorer quality, junk food in most cases.
For all these reasons, it is essential to establish healthy policies in organizations. Among its advantages we can highlight: higher performance at work, improved health status, strengthening corporate reputation of the company or by way of investment with the reduction in the accident rate.
One of the key ideas to consider is that through healthy eating and a balanced state of health, we not only perform better at work, but we feel better about ourselves.
In summary, the habits helps to reduce work-related stress and improve the overall health of employees. the overall health of the employees.