Transcript Case-study on worksite wellness

KASTURI & SONS (THE HINDU)
News paper industry
130 year old organisation
4 publications
Published at 12 places
3572 employees in total ; 1672 in Chennai
Employee Health & Welfare Proactive management
MEDICAL TEAM
• Guided by
Dr.Nalini Krishnan M.D., - Director
• Supported by
5 Medical officers
Clinical assistants
Medical Social Worker & Counsellor
Physiotherapists
Laboratory Staff
• A comprehensive health care programme launched
under the Arogyaraksha banner in 1997 for various
curative and preventive medicine and health
promotion programmes at worksite
THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE
• Established in 1994
• Located at the heart of Chennai
• On site emergency services at the press & corporate
office also provided
THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE
• Provides comprehensive health care services to
• Service employees & their families
• Retired employees & their spouse
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
PROVIDED
• Outpatient medical consultation & treatment
• Specialists’ consultations - twice a week
• Diagnostic Lab Services & ECG
• Imaging services - X-ray, Ultra Sonogram &
Echocardiogram
• Well equipped physiotherapy unit
• Counselling services for employees & families
• Pharmacy services – at no cost to patients
COUNSELLING SERVICES
• Counselling of employees on work-place related interpersonal behavioural and emotional problems
• House visits for follow-up counselling
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
PROGRAMMES
• Awareness programmes on smoking and alcoholism
conducted
 In schools and colleges
 Government and private corporations to mention a few
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Tamil Nadu steels - Arakonam
Brakes India – Padi, Chennai
Reserve bank of India
Hindustan motors
 Tamil Nadu police – Nearly 80,000 police personnel have
been covered through workshops conducted for alcohol
deaddiction
 Hospitals and deaddiction centres
 Rural villages at Chingleput,Salem and Madurai
 And wherever help is required
OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES
• The Hindu in 1996 in collaboration with ILO & an NGO,
TTK Hospital participated in workshops and conducted
programmes for prevention of alcohol and drug abuse at
work place
• April 1998 : Policy against Substance Abuse formulated
jointly by the Union & the Management
• Sponsoring for alcohol de-addiction treatment
• Also participated in the ARMADA (Association of Resource
Managers Against Drug Abuse) & SOLVE programmes on
management of Stress,Tobacco and Alcohol Addiction, HIV
infection and Violence
HEARING CONSERVATION PROGRAMME
• Carried out in May 2001
• Helped to reduce noise emission & keep it within safety
limits
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Employees educated on the importance of using
hearing protective equipment
PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
PROGRAMMES
• Annual on-site health screening & master health check
up done for employees of all branches
• Counselling on lifestyle modification done
• Well-Women Check-Up – Including Gynec examination,
Mammogram & PAP Smear
• Screening of Food Handlers (canteen staff) for
communicable diseases once in 6 months
• Typhoid and Hepatitis A vaccines administered
ABOUT THE AA GROUP
• AA Support Groups for patients & Al-Anon Family member
support groups
• AA group meetings held at corporate office and at press
(Maraimalainagar) once a week
• Senior members from other AA groups with long years of
soberity invited to share their experience
• Al- Anon group meetings held at welfare centre
• 94 employees have come forward for treatment
• 70.7% of them remain sober still
OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES
• Health promotional activities at work place include
• Educative and awareness lectures on personal
hygiene, road safety, addiction, cancer, obesity,
hypertension, diabetes and other related diseases
• Dissemination of information through
notices,posters,flyers
• Messages on scrollers at canteen
• Poster exhibition
• Screening camps
• In-house newsletter called Welfare Watch
• Health Promotion Messages in pay packet
• Participation in health fairs
SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME
• Initiated on 1st January, 1999
• Declared ‘No Smoking’ office on 1st January, 2000
• Conducted by Dr.Nalini Krishnan, Director, Dr.Mary
Varman Chief Medical Officer & Ms.Malini Roberts,
Medical Social Worker of The Hindu H & WC
• Technical Assistance by Ms. Thirumagal, Director of
Counselling,T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research
Foundation, Chennai
SMOKING CESSATION
PROGRAMME – How achieved ?
• Phased withdrawal of smoking zones at
the work spot
• Smoking zones reduced from 3 places in
1999 to ‘zero’ in 2000
• Counselling & Workshops on Smoking
Cessation & Tips to quit smoking
SMOKING CESSATION
PROGRAMME – How achieved ?
• Display of Anti –Smoking posters at strategic places in
the work place
• Distribution of pamphlets on health hazards of smoking
& financial loss due to smoking along with the monthly
pay Cheque & at ‘QSP’ work shops
• Hand-outs distributed
SMOKING CESSATION
PROGRAMME – Results
• Based on Questionnaire survey 6 months after ‘QSP’
• 4% decline in the total number of smokers after 6
months of ‘QSP’
• Decrease in the numbers of cigarettes smoked
• Overwhelming response from the employees for ‘no
smoking’ in work place (94%)
• Change of smoking location to outside office premises
(67.6%)
SMOKING CESSATION
PROGRAMME – Results
• Stopping smoking during office hours (15%)
• Smoking only after work and outside premises (7%)
• Relapse of smoking was 26.4%
• Reasons for relapse - peer pressure & perception
of stress & ‘tension’
‘Smoking Pays … …
The tobacco company, The Hospital ,The undertaker’
‘A Cigar is a pipe with fire at one end and fool
at the other’ - anonymous
So ……
Thank You