Creating Healthy Workplaces will take place at BT Training Solutions, Belfast, on 6, 7, 13, and 14 November 2007.

The Creating Healthy Workplaces training programme consists of two two-day modules.

For those with a health and safety background, one half a day training session is optional. Total course cost is £75 per participant.

The training course has been developed by the HPA, under the Working for Health Strategy, to equip participants with the skills and knowledge to advise and support organisations to become healthy workplaces, or to implement a programme of development within their own organisation.

The training materials have been developed from:

• Work Well ­ a regional pilot initiative that developed a healthy workplace model for businesses in Northern Ireland; and

• a training needs analysis with disciplines including health promotion, health and safety, occupational health and environmental health.

The materials and training programme have been successfully piloted and have had positive evaluation outcomes. Due to demand we are now in a position to offer this training to a wider audience.

The training covers how to develop a comprehensive healthy workplace programme including needs assessment and action planning and a variety of workplace health issues, for example, health promotion, stress at work, bullying and harassment, sickness absence and return to work.

Participants are not expected to become fully competent in all these areas but rather have an overview of what an organisation¹s healthy workplace programme should look like so that they can identify gaps and understand the key principles in addressing these gaps.

A healthy workplace or health promoting workplace looks at doing the following:

1. developing management practices and policies that support health and promote a positive working environment;

2. providing opportunities and activities to promote health and wellbeing;

3. implementing improvements to the workplace that protect the safety and health of employees.

To download a booking form or to book online go to www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk/work/Training/bookingform.htm

For further information contact Sarah Reid, Health Promoting Workplaces Coordinator, HPA, Tel: 028 9031 1611; Email:s.reid@hpani.org.uk

Online booking form

www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk/work/Training/bookingform.htm