February 2025
Welcome to the Healthy Working Wales (HWW) E-bulletin
Our monthly e-bulletin provides updates from the HWW team, including workplace health and wellbeing news and links to upcoming campaigns and events.
This month:
- Help Shape the Future of Healthy Working Wales
- Join us at an Employee Health and Wellbeing Round Table Event
- Stress and Mental Health at Work
- HWW Out and About
- Key Dates for March
Feel free to share it with your colleagues or networks, along with our sign-up details and previous editions.
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Help shape the future of Healthy Working Wales
We will soon be launching a new website, designed to better support employers in improving workplace health and wellbeing. To ensure the website and future marketing plans meet your needs, we want to hear from you!
We’re asking employers across Wales to take a short survey to share how you access workplace health and wellbeing information, what challenges you face and how we can best support your business.
Your feedback will help shape the future of Healthy Working Wales, ensuring we provide the right resources, guidance, and support for businesses like yours.
Thank you for your time!
Join us at an employee health and wellbeing round table event
Are you a senior leader that makes decisions about employee health and wellbeing?
Join us, along with the Bevan Commission and CBI Wales in exploring challenges and opportunities around employee health and wellbeing.
Date: Monday, 7th April 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:15 PM
Venue: Public Health Wales, Capital Quarter 2, Cardiff
This round table event aims to bring together business representatives and key
stakeholders to explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding employee health
and wellbeing. By creating a platform to share experiences, practical solutions, and
innovative strategies, the event seeks to build a collaborative environment that
empowers businesses to enhance the health and wellbeing of their workforce.
Stress and mental health at work
Last month we supported the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the delivery of an online session as part of their Working Minds campaign.
Aimed at small business owners and managers in Wales,
the session covered how to manage workplace stress and promote good mental health to employees.
Our Consultant in Public Health, Oliver Williams, had the chance to present during the session, sharing information about the support available to employers and businesses
from Healthy Working Wales.
You can find out more about managing workplace stress on our website.
HWW out and about
Healthy Working Wales recently attended a Conwy Employment Hub event in Llandudno: Mental health and wellness in the workplace.
Our Workplace Health Adviser Deanna shared the latest updates on the HWW service. This included information on the new website that is in development, up and coming webinars and much more.
We also had a stand at the event where we were able to network with other attendees and sign people up to our ebulletin.
We also attended two Chambers Wales events last month.
The women’s network event was a great opportunity to network and reconnect with
businesses. It was great to hear from speakers Blessing Mutamba and Beth Baldwin, who shared their insights, experiences and impactful work.
At the men’s health event, it was fantastic to have the chance to promote discussions
around men’s health and wellbeing within the Welsh business community.
We always enjoy meeting our stakeholders and will be attending more events
throughout the year.
Key dates
No Smoking Day (12 March)
Giving up smoking can be the single best thing for your health. There are also many benefits to having a smoke free workforce. Use No Smoking Day as an opportunity to encourage your workforce to quit smoking for good! Visit Ash Wales to register for toolkits.
If you have employees that want to stop smoking, signpost them to the free NHS Wales stop smoking service, Help Me Quit.
World Sleep Day (14 March)
We know that sleep is good for our health. We also know that having a healthy workforce is good for businesses.
The theme for this year’s World Sleep Day is ‘Make Sleep Health a Priority’. You can use this as an opportunity to highlight the importance of sleep and encourage employees to adopt healthy sleep behaviours.
You can sign up to become a delegate or you can sign up to receive updates, toolkits and much more.
Global Recycling Day (18 March)
Global Recycling Day 2025 looks to recognise people, places, businesses, and activities who have championed recycling.
You can help to mark the occasion by promoting green practices and engaging with competitions and other activities via the Global Recycling foundation website.
Visit our sustainable workplaces webpage to learn about the things you can do to make your workplace more environmentally friendly.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week (17 – 23 March)
Employees with neurological condition such as Dyslexia, Autism or ADHD can have such a positive impact on your workforce.
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, there is a schedule of free events for the week which includes panel discussions and inspirational speakers from a range of backgrounds and professions.
You can sign up to as many events as you like, so please share this with your networks and join together to celebrate different minds!
You can also visit our neurodiversity in the workplace webpage to find out more.
Links to a range of health awareness campaigns can be accessed via the HWW wellbeing calendar.