Guidance
This guideline covers how to improve the health and wellbeing of employees, with a focus on organisational culture and the role of line managers.
In March 2016, we added recommendations about older employees, aged over 50 in paid or unpaid work.
Recommmendations
The guideline includes recommendations on:
- organisational commitment
- mental wellbeing at work and physical work environment
- fairness, participation and trust
- senior leadership
- line managers’ role and leadership style
- training, including support for older employees
- job design
- monitoring and evaluation
Who is it for?
- Employers, senior leadership and managers (including line managers), human resource teams and all those with a remit for workplace health
- Employees, people who are self-employed, and other members of the public
Is this guideline up to date?
August 2017: We have found no new evidence that affects the recommendations. For more information, see the surveillance decision.
Guideline development process
How we develop NICE guidelines
Your responsibility
The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.
Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.