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Activity-friendly workplaces

The Activity-friendly Workplaces scheme has been established to assist employers, human resource managers and anybody wanting to promote health and fitness programmes in the work environment.

If you'd like assistance with an active workplace initiative or would like to share a case study describing your active workplace programme, email afe@sparc.org.nz.

Use the left-hand menu or the links below to find out more about activity-friendly workplaces.

Information on cycle-friendly employers
Information and advice on implementing and evaluating a workplace wellness programme
  • What is workplace wellness? Provides a brief overview of the benefits of an active workplace and suggests some potential projects and programmes.
  • Getting started - where employers and managers can get assistance to set up workplace wellness programmes.
  • Tools for setting up - explains how to obtain manuals and toolkits for implementing and evaluating workplace wellness programmes.
  • NZ case studies - gives examples of some of the active workplace initiatives in place in New Zealand companies.
  • Best practice - summarises the findings of the leading studies into a range of best practice actions.
  • Contacts and references - provides links to websites and lists relevant journals and periodicals.
Studies that quantify the effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes
  • Studies and research - covers research into the benefits of healthier employees, a bibliography of research studies, abstracts of many studies listed in the bibliography and literature reviews.

Updated | 02 Nov 2006.

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