‘Good work’ is defined as having a safe and secure job with good working hours and conditions, supportive management and opportunities for training and development. The following resources provide information to evidence the benefits of ‘good work’ to employees, employers and the community:
- Health matters: health and work Public Health England information and guidance on creating healthy workplaces.
- Health and work: infographics a series of infographics to raise awareness and understanding of the relationship between health and work.
- Working for a Healthier Tomorrow is a report by Dame Carol Black (2008) on health, work and wellbeing.
- The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) survey report on Health and wellbeing at work.
- Economic evidence report on workplace health 2016 by the British Heart Foundation and ERS Research.
- Evolve Workplace Wellbeing have created a free, evidence-informed workplace wellbeing toolkit so that employers can take action to help businesses evolve and thrive. Employers can find out the potential financial benefits of increasing employee wellbeing with an innovative cost effectiveness calculator.
- Workplace wellbeing cost calculator tool. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have developed a tool to help employers to work out the costs of poor employee health to their organisation and create a business case for taking action.
