Businesses from across the borough attended a celebration event at South Shields Town Hall earlier this month to receive their Better Health at Work Awards.
The Better Health at Work Awards (BHAWA) is the largest workplace health and wellbeing programme in England. It supports and recognises the efforts of employers addressing health and wellbeing in the workplace.
A range of Awards were presented including, Bronze, Silver, Gold Continuing Excellence and Maintaining Excellence, with appropriate criteria at each stage to build into an Award Portfolio.
Councillor Ruth Berkley, Lead Member for Adults, Health and Independence at South Tyneside Council presented the Awards:
Congratulations to the following South Tyneside businesses:
Cell Pack Solutions received the Silver Award and Health Advocate of the Year Award
Ford Aerospace Ltd received Ambassador Status and Maintaining Excellence Award
Getinge received the Gold Award
Groundwork South and North Tyneside received Ambassador Status and the Maintaining Excellence Award
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK received the Gold Award
Jarrow School received Ambassador Status and the Maintaining Excellence Award
Legal Aid Agency received the Maintaining Excellence Award
Sea Change Café received the Silver Award, and Special Recognition Award
Sora received the Silver Award
South Tyneside Council received the Maintaining Excellence Award
Stagecoach received the Bronze Award
Tyne Coast College received Ambassador Status and the Maintaining Excellence Award
Special Awards
Special congratulations to Zoe Malam from Cell Pack Solutions who was presented with the South Tyneside Health Advocate of the Year; and Lauren Hugo from Sea Change Cafe who received the Special Recognition award. Judges noted that Zoe was an outstanding employee, said that Lauren’s dedication and enthusiasm have been pivotal in continually embedding health and wellbeing into the local café.
Congratulating the Award winners, Cllr Margaret Meling, lead member for economic growth and transport at South Tyneside Council, said:
“I want to congratulate all of our South Tyneside businesses who have put resource, time and efforts into achieving and in many cases sustaining these Awards. This is a great achievement.
“We know that promoting a healthy workplace has considerable benefits for employers and this a great way for businesses to access a range of free information, and helpful resources.”
The BHAWA scheme is free, flexible and open to ALL employers in the North East, regardless of size, location or type of business.
Many organisations already promote healthy lifestyles and consider the health of their employees. The Awards recognises the achievements of these organisations and helps them move forward in a structured and supported way. For more information about this and range of other employer support in South Tyneside see : Healthy workplaces – Invest South Tyneside
