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Promoting health at work is defined as "joining forces (employers, employees and society) to improve the health and well-being of people in the workplace". This can be achieved by improving work organisation and working conditions, promoting active participation and encouraging individual development.
The National Institute for Safety and Hygiene at Work (INSHT) has launched the Healthy Companies project to recognise the work of companies in the field of improving the health and well-being of their staff and to promote the culture of health and the exchange of business experiences.
Being a healthy company means: legal compliance in occupational risk prevention, management of staff health from a comprehensive and integrated approach, and considering health as a cross-cutting element of all company policies.
Studies carried out in different countries show that Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) programmes reduce the direct costs associated with health care, but also reduce absenteeism due to illness and accidents at work.
PST improves the health and well-being of employees/groups and makes working conditions safer and healthier.
Although the USC is not yet formally registered in the National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work of Healthy Companies project, it offers its staff, through the Health Surveillance Service, voluntary actions to promote health at work that go beyond mere compliance with current legislation and that can be framed within the good practices in the promotion of health at work recognised by the INSHT.
Health Surveillance Service
- Civil Servants' House
- Avenida das Ciencias, 7, 15782Santiago de Compostela
- 881 814 520
- vixilanciasaude [at] usc.es
Health Surveillance Service
- Edificio Administrativo Intercentros
- Rúa Bernardino Pardo Ouro, s/n. Campus Universitario, 27002Lugo
- 982 823 446
- 982 823 444