Health and Wellbeing
Award of the Year

Award Nomination Criteria

The Health & Wellbeing Award has been introduced to recognise, acknowledge and reward organisations that can demonstrate their commitment to the health and wellbeing of their people through the application of a range of health and wellbeing programmes, which meet the needs of all staff.

Typical Nominees: Nominations will be for the whole organisation. This award will take in to consideration the positive culture and health and wellbeing practices being encouraged in the workplace by one of Scotland’s many positive organisations.

Executive Summary:

Please provide a summary of your category nomination in no more than 500 words.

Supporting Evidence (essential):

1. Evidence that health and wellbeing is embedded in the culture of the organisation and positive lifestyle choices by employees are actively encouraged and enabled
2. Evidence of how a health and wellbeing culture is communicated across the organisation, which meet the needs of all employees
3. Employers that understand and can provide evidence of the value of health and wellbeing in the workplace and is fully engaged with a range of health programmes offered to all employees
4. Organisations must demonstrate evidence of impact the programme/initiative has had on the performance of the business. For example: sickness absence levels, accident rates, engagement scores as well as wider business performance measure like sales/profits
5. Evidence that the organisation has made a commitment through the wellbeing programmes to positively impact employees’ physical and mental wellbeing. Evidence of having a supportive policy and examples of how this has helped existing employees remain in work, is also sought