Great Britain: guidance promoting physical activity in the workplace

How to encourage employees to increase their physical activity ? Such is the topic of the guidance proposed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. This guidance for employers includes a program to stop the progression of the important rate of occupational diseases which could be avoided with increased physical activity. (Ref. 080028)
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On the Department of Health’s demand, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, in charge of defining national orientations to prevent diseases, has just sent for consultation a document entitled Workplace health promotion: how to encourage employees to be physically active.

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