Nestlé UK is tackling the growing problem of work-related stress and ill health with the launch of a DIY health monitoring website for staff.
The food giant is offering all its employees and their families access to the site, which is intended to educate them about health risks and how they can minimise those risks.
Available free of charge, the Wellness Screening Programme takes the form of a questionnaire which guides the user through a series of lifestyle sections. Users input information about their diet, levels of activity and stress, which are used to calculate their lifestyle risk ‘score’. They then set personal goals and can monitor on a weekly basis the impact that
these changes are having on their score.
The programme also includes an extensive medical section providing advice on a range of health topics.
The initiative is intended to give employees a better understanding of nutrition and how it fits in with Nestlé’s health strategy, according to Nadia Sood, director of the Strategic Wellness Unit at Nestlé UK and Ireland.
She said it was pointless manufacturing healthy products if Nestlé’s workforce did not know how best to handle their own health issues.
“We need to harness scientific knowledge to make new products, but we cannot do any of this if our own people are not properly educated about nutrition and feel integrated in this transition,” explained Sood. “We make certain that when people come to work for Nestlé, they are provided with the opportunity to improve their own physical health and diet.”
Stefan Chomka
The food giant is offering all its employees and their families access to the site, which is intended to educate them about health risks and how they can minimise those risks.
Available free of charge, the Wellness Screening Programme takes the form of a questionnaire which guides the user through a series of lifestyle sections. Users input information about their diet, levels of activity and stress, which are used to calculate their lifestyle risk ‘score’. They then set personal goals and can monitor on a weekly basis the impact that
these changes are having on their score.
The programme also includes an extensive medical section providing advice on a range of health topics.
The initiative is intended to give employees a better understanding of nutrition and how it fits in with Nestlé’s health strategy, according to Nadia Sood, director of the Strategic Wellness Unit at Nestlé UK and Ireland.
She said it was pointless manufacturing healthy products if Nestlé’s workforce did not know how best to handle their own health issues.
“We need to harness scientific knowledge to make new products, but we cannot do any of this if our own people are not properly educated about nutrition and feel integrated in this transition,” explained Sood. “We make certain that when people come to work for Nestlé, they are provided with the opportunity to improve their own physical health and diet.”
Stefan Chomka
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