Healthy Enterprise - Prevention, Promotion and Organizational Practices Contributing to Health and Wellness in the Workplace

Purpose
This standard specifies significant requirements for prevention, promotion, and organizational practices that contribute to health and wellness in the workplace, including the psychological and social aspects.

These requirements form a frame of reference for interventions concerning people, organizational practices, and the workplace environment. The requirements aim to maintain and sustainably improve the state of health of employees and enterprises. This standard does not contain performance criteria.

NOTES —

1. For informational purposes, the definition of health used in this standard, originating from the World Health Organization (WHO), includes the concept of “wellness” due to the reference it makes to the psychological and social dimensions of health. Although there appears to be some redundancy, the expression health and wellness in the title of the standard highlights the fact that it is as much about the psychological and social dimensions of health as it is about its physical dimension.

This standard is rooted in the context of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.

Scope

This standard applies to any enterprise or organization (regardless of size, status, or activities) wishing to implement and maintain an initiative for prevention, promotion, and organizational practices contributing to the better health and wellness of its employees, and to obtain recognition of the enterprise’s efforts to this effect.

NOTE — In this document, the term enterprise refers to both a company and an organization.

This standard has been developed as a reference document, particularly in the context of conformity assessment activities of the established initiative.