Our Occupational Health Strategy focuses on three areas:
- Compliance – Managing occupation health risks
- Developing resilience
- Promoting wellbeing in a healthy workplace
The nature of our work has the potential to expose us to conditions that could harm our health. From noise and vibration to ergonomics and lifting, we continually invest in programmes and controls that mitigate these risks. Our occupational health providers conduct a full range of statutory surveillance medicals to look for any early signs of occupational disease.
The leading causes of illness are noise induced hearing loss, work-related upper limb disorders and stress. This reflects our global risk profile and provides the focus for our health improvement activities.
We have an internal health worksite scheme we call LiveWell. This award programme recognises sites that have taken steps towards creating supportive work environments where healthy choices are encouraged and rewarded. Sites are required to meet a stringent set of requirements to be accredited.
Wellbeing at Rolls-Royce
We take a holistic approach to wellbeing at RR supporting our people to thrive both personally and professionally. It expands beyond physical health to encompass mental, emotional, social and financial wellbeing.
Our approach involves fostering a workplace culture that prioritises the wellbeing of its employees, including work-life balance, mental health and creating a psychologically safe workplace.
By providing resources, programmes, and a supportive infrastructure, we aim to empower our people to prioritise their health and wellbeing and create a working environment where everyone can be at their best. In 2023 we developed a new virtual wellbeing site containing tools and resources to help support our colleague’s wellbeing.
Our new wellbeing resources form a key element in our re-imagined LiveWell programme.
Our LiveWell Framework
When we live well, were able to be at our best. That’s why caring for the health and wellbeing of our people is essential to our success. LiveWell brings our wellbeing strategy to life locally. Our goal is to create workplaces and teams where our people’s health and wellbeing can thrive.
Our LiveWell programme is our global, evidence-based approach to improving the wellbeing of our people. Our accreditation scheme helps our workplaces understand where they are today, and how they can make tangible improvements to support the wellbeing of our people. The accreditation programmes span across four levels from Bronze through to Platinum, our ambition is for all of our workplaces to reach Silver accreditation by 2026.
Healthy mind, healthy body and healthy workplace are all key components of our LiveWell programme, encompassing topics such as mental health, financial wellbeing, workplace culture, nutrition, leadership support, physical activity, our community, and healthy behaviour change.
The programme is for our people, by our people. It enables our global workplaces to tailor their wellbeing approach to the requirements of their workplace and employees. This creates autonomy and flexibility in workplace wellbeing approaches, supporting improved engagement and participation in wellbeing initiatives.
The LiveWell framework was re-launched in 2023 with:
82 workplaces participating globally across 21 different countries and over 100 new resources including toolbox talks, engagement activities, posters, nudges and resources.
Mental Health at Rolls-Royce
Our approach to mental health aims to promote mental health and wellbeing throughout our organisation, increasing knowledge and understanding of mental wellbeing, and enabling people to be at their best.
Mental health is a key component of our overall wellbeing strategy and is embedded throughout our LiveWell programme under healthy mind. It supports people to make informed decisions that can improve both their mental and physical wellbeing, and the wellbeing of others. It empowers teams and individuals to set data-based goals and focused actions on removing barriers to health and wellbeing. A mandatory element of our LiveWell programme’s bronze accreditation level is the completion and regular review of workplace pressure risk assessments. Our workplace pressure risk assessment programme (Pascal) supports our people leaders to manage and mitigate risks in the workplace which may prevent our people from being at their best. Our programme allows people leaders to examine current workplace pressures in their teams and identify team level actions that can be made to better manage workplace pressures and reduce potential mental health impacts.
Working with a partner we recently developed a learning programme on mental health to support our leaders and over 500 leader have already taken this training to better support their people. Additionally, in 2023 our global mandatory training focused on psychological safety in the workplace, supporting our people leaders to develop a psychologically safe working environment with their teams.
A key element of our approach to mental health is our mental health champion network, the network spans over 700 voluntary champions globally. Our ambition is to create inclusive and supportive working environments where people can talk freely and opening about wellbeing including mental health and are confident in seeking any support they need.
The role of our mental health champions includes championing mental health campaigns, events and resources throughout the organisation, increasing understanding of mental health and wellbeing. All our champions undertake training for their role, and we share best practice and develop new learning and toolkits for our champions through a global community of practice.