Occupational Health & Wellbeing Awards 2021: Category criteria – Personnel Today

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There are six categories in the 2021 Occupational Health & Wellbeing Awards. Teams and individuals can enter as many categories as they wish, whether that’s for occupational health and wellbeing services provided for their own organisation, or for a client.

Entries must fulfill the definitions of the category in which they are entering. Entrants should provide clear responses under three headings:

• The challenge – An outline of what the organisation hoped to achieve.
• The solution – Describe what the organisation/individual did to achieve this
• Benefits to the organisation – Highlight the benefits for the company – financial, motivational, etc.

The entry statement should be no more than 1200 words.

Judges will be looking for examples of the following criteria:

• Innovation and achievement
• Teamwork
• Leadership
• Effective use of resources
• The contribution to the organisation.

Best mental health initiative

This award recognises excellence and innovation in safeguarding and improving employees’ mental wellbeing. Judges will be looking for evidence that occupational health and wellbeing teams have introduced an initiative that has brought benefits for workers and the organisation. Entrants will be expected to explain the challenge before the initiative was introduced, the stakeholders that were involved and