Medway Healthy Workplaces

We came across this today, experts warning of posture issues due to the amount of time spent on screens and looking at devices. https://lnkd.in/e2BV_xCr Our top tips would be: 🪑 Sitting on a proper, supportive chair when working 💻 Having your laptop or PC at the right height so you are not slouching, using a monitor or laptop riser when needed ⏲️ Taking regular breaks 🤸♂️ Stretching and moving throughout the day 📚 Varying your tasks so you can break up the day and not be in one position for too long 💪 Using and working your muscles outside of the work day - NHS recommendations are to carry out two types of strengthening activity a week. Strong muscles support our skeletons and support good posture. Share you ideas in the comments below.

Great to see our Medway Healthy Workplaces award getting a mention in MTS Cleansing Services Ltd January newsletter. MTS were successfully reaccredited with their Platinum award in 2024. You can read the full article and hear about the other fantastic work they have done in the past year https://lnkd.in/dErHCr9v #workplacewellbeing #businessinmedway

After the festivities of Christmas and New Year, returning to work can prove to be a challenge, prompting a bout of the January Blues. 🆘💙 Blue Monday is claimed to be the most depressing day of the year and it is normally acknowledged as taking place on the third Monday in January which this year lands on 20th January. Whilst rumoured to have been started by a travel company as a promotional tool and not clinically proven, it’s certainly a good conversation starter for wellbeing. 💬 So instead of assuming that the 20th will be the gloomiest day of the year, let's turn this year's Blue Monday into a positive one for 2025! Let’s use this day to take stock, look forward to the future, focus on what we want from 2025 and increase our awareness of self-care and mental health issues. 💪 Connecting with others is a great way to overcome that sense of feeling 'flat' after the December festivities and could help others too! 🤝 Samaritans is turning Blue Monday on 20th January into Brew Monday by encouraging people to connect over a cuppa. 🍵 You can find tips on how to be a good listener and resources for Brew Monday at https://lnkd.in/di8e2xi Why not take the opportunity to make some time to reach out to a colleague or a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while to see if they’re ok? 👥 #samaritans #brewmonday

Well done to University of Kent Academies Trust on achieving their Bronze Medway Workplace Wellbeing Award. We look forward to supporting you on your staff wellbeing journey! #medway #schools #workplacehealth

We highly recommend the training, resources and challenges provided by Active Kent & Medway. If you've not checked them out before, make 2025 the year to do so! #activeatwork #activeworkforce #healthatwork

In case you haven't seen it yet, our article featuring Medway based NutraDirect is in the latest edition of Thinking Business, the magazine from Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce, published by Benham Publishing Limited. Find out how being a healthy workplace has made a difference: https://lnkd.in/eyDC6zTd

Happy New Year! Can you join the likes of Chatha Hygiene Group Limited and make 2025 the year to become a healthy workplace? We have a few spaces for businesses to join our Medway Healthy Workplaces Programme. Register your interest using the link in the comments. #workplacehealth #medway #business

Wishing all of our organisations in our Healthy Workplace Programme a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year! You've all worked hard this year! Well done to all of the following businesses in our programme who have achieved their Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum Healthy Workplaces awards since August. If you would like to join the Healthy Workplaces programme or find out more information as to what the programme can offer you, please click on the link in the comments below. #award #workplacewellbeing #medwaybusiness University of Kent Academies Trust Dragon Coworking HOO DENTAL CARE Keenwood Ltd BritNed MKC Training RIVERMEAD INCLUSIVE TRUST ScreenCancer UK MTS Cleansing Services Ltd HOLDFAST TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED Lustre Consulting Ltd National Grid Grain LNG Limited Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Well done to IVDeology Ltd (Nancy Consterdine and Stuart Angell (mTOPRA)) for being shortlisted at the Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards. Along with fellow programme members Stuart Clack from National Grid Grain LNG Limited and local Prostate Cancer volunteer Paul Dennington being shortlisted, Medway has a great level of representation!