Workplace
Health Promotion (WHP) taking on a crucial role
HR practitioners will agree synonymously about
their ongoing efforts and challenges in successfully retaining employees and
sustaining a healthy, motivated and productive workforce. This can be a greater
challenge when there is also a need to keep operational resources lean and
medical expenditures low.
Coupled with Singapore’s rapidly ageing workforce,
deteriorating employee health can cause a negative impact on the business and
economic scales, if not promptly addressed or effectively managed. Hence HR
needs to continuously engage with major stakeholders and strive to achieve the
targeted organisational outcomes.
A recent report by the National Tripartite
Committee on Workplace Health revealed three out of five adult Singapore
residents work. Prudent HR practitioners would synergise with the Health
Promotion Board (HPB) and World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation that
the workplace is an ideal avenue to support health promotion amongst employees and
their families.
Endorsed by HPB, the Workplace Health
Promotion Programme (WHP) advocates the adoption of healthy practices at the
workplaces to improve productivity and efficiency of employees and also to
enhance the work environment and culture.
HMI-Institute of Health Sciences is proud to
have certified WHP Consultants who can actively partner with companies to start
and improve their own WHP programmes.
Preventive
Health Screening – Across the Border
Besides making the workplace a health-friendly
space, HR practitioners will also agree on the importance of preventive health
screenings in ensuring healthy and productive employees. Health screening is
essential for the early detection of diseases that can cause long term
disability or death. By investing in health screening for their employees,
companies also get to save on potentially larger healthcare costs when major
illnesses strikes without warning. Hence, companies are now seeking quality
health screening packages with the value-add of convenience and comfort for
their employees.
A growing number of companies are also seeking
health screening services across the border, in Malaysia. According to a Frost
and Sullivan report, Malaysia is expected to show an increase of 15% CAGR in
the number of foreign patients visiting the country from 2010 to 2012. Due to
its quality of healthcare and close proximity to Singapore, HMI has also seen
an increase in the number of Singaporeans seeking medical treatment in HMI’s
Regency Specialist Hospital (Regency) in Johor, which is just an hour’s drive
away from Singapore. Another HMI facility, the Mahkota Medical Centre (Mahkota)
in Malacca, is just a three-hour drive from Singapore. Singaporeans can use
their Medisave in both HMI hospitals.
For quality health screening at affordable
rates, companies can now benefit from HMI’s popular health screening and
leisure day trips to Regency Specialist Hospital in Johor. Participants are
ferried to their morning health screening at Regency, followed by a
complimentary healthy breakfast in the hospital. They then proceed to the local
JUSCO mega-mall for shopping or are free to explore other leisure activities
such as horseback riding or a spa session in the afternoon. Not only do
employees get to have their health checked, they also get to interact and bond
with their colleagues during the day trip!
From WHP programmes to cross-border health
screenings, HR practitioners today can choose from a variety of options that
can help them save on healthcare costs as well as keep employees healthy and
happy at the same time.
Contributed by: Chin Wei Jia
General Manager of Health Management
International (HMI) Ltd.
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