The Global Healthy Workplace Awards is the only global awards program and based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Healthy Workplace framework. Find out what the crirteria are and how to apply for the 2014 Awards. The Global Awards Summit will take place on April 9-10, 2014 in Shanghai, China.

2. 2nd Global Awards & Summit 2014
Shanghai April 9-10
November 11, 2013: Awards Entries open!
via http://globalhealthyworkplace.com/awards-shanghai2014.html
Application deadline:
January 24

3. Overview
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Overview
Hosts and Partners
1st Global Awards & London Summit
2013 Winners
Regional Seminar Series
Latin American Summit on Healthy
Workplaces
• 2nd Global Awards and Summit 2014 in
Shanghai
• Application Criteria & Details
• Contact

4. Promoting Global Healthy
Workplaces
A comprehensive program to celebrate, learn from and
promote a global healthy workplace.
Global Employer Awards (large and SME)
Summit & Seminar program
New content sharing site
Sharing better practice
This presentation highlights the successful outcome of the
program thus far and how you can benefit from future plans.

5. Good Health = Good Business
Three Categories:
 Large enterprises
 Small to medium-sized enterprises
 Multinational enterprises
Based on:
World Health Organization (WHO)
Healthy Workplace Model for Action
 Physical working environment
 Psychosocial working environment
 Personal health resources
 Enterprise-community involvement
Follows a continual improvement process

6. Hosts & Partners
Hosts
 GKEN represents a global network of business, and government executives
focused on exchanging knowledge around better health systems practices.
 International Health Consulting provides specialist advice on workplace health
with a focus on multi-national employers.
 i-genius is a world community of social entrepreneurs with members in over 200
countries.
Advisory Board
 International Association for Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP)
 International Organization of Employers (IOE) – the umbrella organization of all
national employer federations
 International Institute for Health Promotion (IIHP) at American University,
Washington, DC
 Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)
 People in Aid

7. Global Awards Summit London 2013
• Associação Brasileira de Qualidade de
Vida (ABQV)
• Abbott
• Agder University College
• American Cancer Society
• American Public Health Association
• American University
• Aon Hewitt
• Birches Group
• BP
• Buck Consultants
• Bupa
• Chester University
• CIGNA
• DHL
• Dow Chemical
• European Bank for Reconstruction and
• European Network for Workplace Health
Promotion
• Eversheds
• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• Ghana Business Coalition on Employee
Well-Being
• GKEN
• Glasslyn Health Solutions
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Health Promotion Board
• Health, Work, and Well-being
• The Health Enhancement Research
• Organization (HERO)
• Heidelberg University
• Human Capital Specialists
• i-genius
• Indian Association of Occupational
Health (IAOH)
• IBM Integrated Health Services
• InterHealth
• International Institute of Risk and Safety
Management
• International Organization of Employers
• Johnson & Johnson
• Kimberly-Clarke
• Mars
• Mint
• National Institute for Health and Welfare
• National Institute of Education of
Singapore
• People in Aid
• Pfizer
• Potchefstroom University
• PruHealth
• Samueli Institute
• Schlumberger Electric
• ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation
Development
• European Centre for Environment
and Human Health
The inaugural Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit in London 2013
set out to highlight the importance of employer health programs, the emerging
better practices and innovations, and the opportunities to replicate around the world.
• UK Preventive Medicine
• Universidade do Porto
• The University of Botswana
• The University of Cape Town
• The University of Nottingham
• The University of Perugia
• The University of Tokyo
• University West
• Vodafone Turkey
• Vanbreda International
• VSO
• VU University Medical Center
• Walmart
• Wellness Training
• International Health
Consulting
• The Work Foundation
• The World Health Organization
• Yum! Brands

8. 2013 Winners & Runners-Up

9. London 2013 Media Coverage
Reaching Across the Globe to a Worldwide Audience
The Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit reached a vast audience of nearly three
million through multiple communication channels as noted below.
A number of reporters attended the Summit and / or wrote about it
including CNBC, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, CorpComms magazine, MSME Network,
Cover magazine, Workplace Savings and Benefits, Health Insurance & Protection, The PlatypusPR,
Employee Benefits News (UK) and healthyworkplaces.com.
In total, the readership of the publications and websites where the multiple stories appeared
amounts to 900,000.
Additionally, the social media and email campaign promoting the Summit reached 2 million people
through multiple postings on the i-genius networks on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube,
Weibo, and Google+ in multiple announcements before, during and after the event.
The communication blitz included email blasts, with two GKEN distributions to 36,000 US employers
and another 3,000 to targeted health organizations, along with the OSHmail monthly newsletter of
the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to 54,700 subscribers, and six announcements
through the i-genius newsletter with more than 15,000 subscribers.
As well, additional promotional partners included the International Organisation of Employers, who
sent news blasts to their membership from 143 countries.

10. Seminar Series
Regional Summits and topical seminars
are hosted between Global Summits to
enable greater local penetration

11. São Paulo, 29th September 2013
Regional gathering in the heart of South America
The first ever Latin American Summit on Healthy Workplaces took place in São Paulo on
September 29, 2013. The Summit was the first regional event aligned with the Global
Healthy Workplace Awards, which took place in London in April 2013, bringing together
human resource (HR) managers, policy makers and health professionals working with local
enterprises as well as multi-national employers from all over Latin America.
Responding to the growing interest in promoting health at the workplace in Latin American
countries the one-day Summit featured the following topics:
 Overview of key health issues and challenges in Latin America (including results from
2012 Buck Global Survey on Health Promotion and Workplace Wellness)
 How to create a Healthy Workplace according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
framework
 Featuring case studies of Global Healthy Workplace Awards finalists and runners-up from
the Americas
 Implementing WHO Healthy Workplaces in small and medium-sized enterpries (SMEs): a
pilot project in 3 Latin American countries (Peru, Colombia, Chile)
 Innovation Laboratories: knowledge and innovations in health – how will this affect WHP?
 The multi-national challenge: large enterprises discuss how to implement WHP programs
across the continent
The Summit was held in conjunction with the ABQV Congress (September 30 – October 3).

12. 2nd Global Awards & Summit 2014
Shanghai April 9-10
November 11, 2013: Awards Entries open!
via http://globalhealthyworkplace.com/awards-shanghai2014.html
Application deadline:
January 24

13. Who Can Apply?
Open to all employer organizations (for profit and not-for-profit):
• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): with less than 500
employees who run exemplary programs based on the WHO Healthy
Workplace framework criteria.
• Applicants should demonstrate success in at least one of the four principle
areas of the Healthy Workplace framework and outline plans for
addressing the other areas.
• Large Enterprises: with over 500 employees who run exemplary programs
based on the WHO Healthy Workplace framework criteria at one local
worksite.
• Multi-national enterprises: employers with employees in different
countries who run exemplary programs based on the WHO Healthy
Workplace framework criteria across multiple worksite locations and
countries.

14. Evaluation Criteria
A healthy workplace is one in which workers
and managers collaborate to use a
continual improvement process to protect
and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of all workers and the
sustainability of the workplace by
considering the following, based on
identified needs:
• Health and safety concerns in the physical
work environment.
• Health, safety and well-being concerns in
the psychosocial work environment,
including work organization and
workplace culture.
• Personal health resources in the
workplace.
• Ways of participating in the community to
improve the health of workers, their
families and other members of the

15. Global Awards Judges
Panel of Judges
Europe: Dame Carol Black - UK
National Director for Health and
Work, Chairman for the Nuffield Trust
South America: Alberto Ogata President, Brazilian Association
of Quality of Life (ABQV)
North America: Georges Benjamin
- Executive Director, American Public
Health Association
Africa: Tracy Kolbe-Alexander Senior Lecturer, University of
Cape Town, South Africa
Asia Pacific: Annie Ling - Director,
Adult Health Division of Health
Promotion Board, Singapore

16. Based on the WHO Five Keys to
Healthy Workplaces
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Leadership commitment and engagement
Worker involvement
Business ethics and legality
Sustainability and integration
Follow continuous improvement cycle
Innovative
Replicable

17. Leadership Commitment &
Engagement
• How is the organisation supporting, implementing
and promoting the healthy workplace program?
• What is the role of senior staff and do you have a
dedicated business policy as well as a dedicated
committee to promote a healthy workplace?
• How are the healthy workplace activities
integrated?

18. Worker Involvement
• How are workers involved in the planning and
programming process (beyond participating)?
• How has your programme promoted diversity
and gender equality (be as specific as
possible)?

19. Follow Continuous
Improvement Cycle
• Explain how the healthy workplace initiative is
conceived, planned, implemented (addressing
the four components of the WHO Healthy
Workplace model), assessed and improved.
• Specifically, which processes and outcomes
are measured and demonstrable milestones
(where applicable) have been achieved?

20. Innovative
• In which aspects do you regard this initiative
as innovative?

21. Sustainable
• How is this healthy workplace initiative
considered sustainable and promoting lasting
health improvements?
• Has the initiative been successfully expanded
to new settings beyond its original
conception?

22. Replicable
• How would you judge the ability for this
initiative to be replicable beyond its current
form?
• Can it be scaled, implemented in diverse
environments (e.g. urban and rural, large and
small enterprises, different industries and
countries, etc.)?

23. Basic Requirements
• All applying organizations adhere to workers’ social and ethical codes as
part of their role in the broader community and enforce occupational
health codes and laws
• Applicants can be private, public or non-profit organizations
• Programs are based in the workplace
• Applicants must be willing to provide information on the Global Awards
website and other outlets selected by the host organisations
• Applicants must be willing to participate in ongoing profiling for a
minimum of twelve months, e.g. at regional seminars, periodical
newsletters and on the website.
• Applicants will not use supporting materials with their application.
• Finalists will attend the 2014 Global Awards Summit to present their
program. No videos will be allowed for this presentation.

24. Contact
Questions??
Application deadline:
January 24
Jon Comola, Founder, GKEN
jrcomola@gmail.com
Wolf Kirsten, Founder & President, International Health
Consulting
wk@wolfkirsten.com
Tommy Hutchinson, CEO & Founder, i-genius
tommy@i-genius.org