Randers, August 18, 2010
Health project to run for three years focuses on both work and health.
On 1 October, the Danish Crown group will be launching a ground-breaking project to provide both the company and the slaughterhouse industry in general with knowledge on how to prevent workers from becoming physically worn-out.
A completely new approach will be taken to prevention as the health project will centre on the employee by focusing both on the workplace and on the state of health of the individual. In addition to revealing how employees are impacted by work routines, the state of health of the individual employees will be an element in that diet and exercise will be covered by the pilot project which comprises 1,160 production employees at three factories.
The objective is to help employees lead healthier and better lives through massive and targeted efforts, thereby minimising the degree to which employees end up being physically worn-out and reducing absence due to illness to 5%. At the same time, the project pursues the aim that employees should experience 30% less musculoskeletal pain and for them to feel that their state of health has improved by 30% in the course of the three-year project.
The health project is so ground-breaking that the Prevention Fund has granted DKK 12.4 million to the initiative.
The efforts to cut the number of cases of employees becoming worn-out follow in the wake of Danish Crown’s success at cutting the number of accidents at work. Targeted efforts over several years have markedly reduced the number of accidents at work, in the group as a whole by 30%.
Participants in the three-year project will be employees at the pig slaughterhouse in Sæby, the cattle slaughterhouse in Aalborg and the processing facility Tulip Food Company in Aalborg.