Stakeholder Workshop on Healthy Workplace at CII NR Headquarters, Chandigarh on 30th Sept 2008 

A stakeholder workshop on Healthy Workplaces was organized by School of Public Health, PGIMER Chandigarh in Collaboration of Confederation of Indian Industry under Govt of India- WHO collaborative Program at CII headquarters at Sector 31 Chandigarh, today.

A healthy workplace assumes more relevance in today’s scenario where we have a booming economy and youngsters are spending more hours at their workplaces than at home, the overgrowing competition is continuously adding to the stress level and lifestyle lead non communicable diseases. Hence a strategic focus on a healthy workplace would be the need of the hour and an alternative to keep the productive assets i.e. industry workforce at the same pace.  

School of Public Health ,PGIMER is developing a Healthy Workplaces model in Chandigarh specific to Indian context  and 3 industries in the region are participating.Today’s workshop brought  all the stake holders i.e Industry, Health Sector, Government, Academia and Media of  coming  together for a strategic and focused intervention for current and future prospects of  healthy and productive workforce.The workshop also observed a very comprehensive exhibition showcasing IEC material based on Non Communicable diseases and was inaugurated by Dr Manjit Singh Bains, Director Health Services, Chandigarh Administration. 

Mr. Man Mohan Singh, Convener – CSR Panel, CII Chandigarh Council. Prof. Rajesh Kumar, Head, School of Public Health, PGIMER welcomed the gathering.

Dr J. S Thakur, Associate Professer, School of Public Health, PGIMER explained the PGI initiative on healthy Workplaces for NCD Control and key issues. Then Dr Manjit Singh Bains highlighted the NCD Control initiative in Chandigarh. The Inaugural address was delivered by Prof K.K.Talwar, Director, PGIMER. He said the public sector needs may be different than private sector. The other dignitaries on the dias included Dr Ramnil Ahuja and Dr D. Bhattacharya, CII; Dr. Prashant Assistant Director General, ICMR and Dr Sanjay wadhwa, PGIMER. 

The next session was a technical session, which was moderated by Prof. Rajesh Kumar and Prof S K Jaindal from PGIMER. The session included sharing of the experiences by Lt. Col. MS Dhaliwal,and  Mrs. Kanika who gave the implementation in their respective Industries. 

There was Group work which was organized with the help of   the resource persons in two groups. The Discussion was on Workplace policies and programme, situational analysis, Broad Action Plan and proposed model & scheme for developing healthy workplaces.Later the recommendations of the group will be used to replicate in other public private set ups. The model developed was refined further in the group and will be implemented in three participating industries till the final model is developed.  

Dr JS Thakur Associate Professor School of Public health, PGI

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