The Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives has awarded the Bronze Award to Clark Contracts.
The Healthy Working Lives programme supports employers and employees to develop health promotion in the workplace. The first step to being recognised by the scheme is to achieve the ‘Bronze Award’. To do so organisations must promote and raise awareness of occupational health, safety and wellbeing topics identified by employees which requires them to carry out 3 health, safety and wellbeing campaigns, 2 health safety and wellbeing activities and a mental health awareness activity.
Clark Contracts joined the scheme in November 2015 and has carried out initiatives including the provision of free fresh fruit in both its Paisley and Edinburgh Offices, the formation of a running and cycling club, a series of nutrition workshops and arranging for a local deli to visit the Head Office to sell healthy produce during lunchtime.
The Paisley based construction company also worked in collaboration with Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (RHSCP) to deliver Mental Health Awareness seminars over the month of July. The seminars were delivered by Audrey Hall and Margaret Toal of RHSCP who are specialists in this field and discussed the definition of mental health along with the associated problems whilst highlighting that mental health is something which affects everyone and is not necessarily negative.
Clark Contracts are now looking towards the Silver Award with a target of achieving this in Summer 2017.
