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Spacer workers get a warm feeling with award-winning wellness
26th May 2015

When the people at EDGETECH UK are not making their Super Spacers, they are enjoying free fruit, cookery demos, health checks and even help to give up smoking. It’s all part of the company’s wellness programme and now the initiative has earned the company one of the highest ratings of the National Workplace Wellbeing Charter.

Over four fifths of staff say they feel they have benefited and more than half actually saw medical health improvements, according to HR Manager Suzanne Shelbourne.

“Looking out for the wellbeing of team members is a positive step for everyone,” she said. “People feel more engaged, which leads to lower staff turnover rates and absence rates have reduced to less than one percent.”

Over the last four years Edgetech has been supporting staff to encourage them to make positive lifestyle choices, alongside continually improving their internal policies to ensure best practise within all the areas of the Charter.

Edgetech initially achieved Charter status in 2013 with the local Charter programme and has now achieved higher recognition through the National Charter for Achievement in all areas, including leadership, communication, absence management and general wellbeing.

“The team get really involved with the events,” she added, “Whether it’s cooking competitions or team lunches to sample healthy foods, we’re always looking to create the best environment possible to work in. The programme is especially important for our shift workers, as the manufacturing facility runs 24 hours a day, five days a week. Irregular sleeping and eating patterns can make it harder to pick positive lifestyle choices.

Edgetech has has such success with the programme that Suzanne was asked to present at the recent Workplace Wellbeing Charter Awards event, covering the business case study for an SME with Charter recognition, to an invited audience representing more than 30 companies in the Coventry & Warwickshire region.

Managing Director Andy Jones concluded:“Being awarded Charter status proves we offer our team members the highest levels of support. The results speak for themselves: Edgetech is a healthy and happy place to work.“

www.edgetechig.co.uk

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