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Health promotion is: "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their physical and mental/psychological health"  (World Health Organization (WHO), 2005)  
It means any activity that seeks to improve a person’s or population’s health by providing information about, and increasing awareness of, good behaviors to be healthy as well as at-risk behaviors associated with various diseases (with the intent of reducing them).  Health-promoting behaviors include adoption of a healthy lifestyle with regular physical exercise and sleep/recovery, healthy nutrition, smoking cessation, avoidance of alcohol or substance abuse, cancer prevention, cardiovascular risk prevention, and also other positive behaviors at work contributing to improving general health, wellbeing and preventing some occupational risks.

Health promotion for each employee

Adopt positive behaviors as suggested in the presentations below:


Health promotion at the Sites

As Well-being at Work (WB@W) is a priority for Solvay, Sites will contribute to by organizing health awareness campaigns or promotion actions, with (when it is possible) the support of the medical team, with the target to keep all employees to work as healthy and safe as possible, and to avoid accidents and occupational diseases.

Sites implement health promotion programs/actions:

  • dealing with (see next sections below):

 general health topics
 occupational risks for health 

  • how?

 through communication campaigns and/or information sessions, and/or
 by inviting employees to participate in concrete actions organized by the medical team, and/or
 by offering medical check-ups beyond those related with occupational risks (e.g. cancer or cardiovascular prevention, etc.), and/or
 by facilitating vaccination (e.g. seasonal flu vaccination, etc.)

In 2022, about 90% of the Sites reported active promotion and support for health and wellbeing activities (see Solvay's Annual Integrated Report)


General health promotion

On top, the site may organize evidence-based health promotion (i.e. based on the best available scientific data) which includes:

  Actions for healthy life style are promoting:
       fitness and sport,
      antismoking campaigns,
       information about alcohol and drugs,
      information about balanced nutrition


  Vaccination campaigns (e.g. for seasonal flu)


  Health screenings, e.g. for:
       cancer (e.g. intestine cancer screening)
       metabolic syndrome
       cardiovascular risks, like:
              - high blood pressure
              - high cholesterol
              - tobacco
              - predisposition
       risks of diabetes
       overweight



Go to: General health promotion campaigns in the Solvay Group in 2016
             Covid-19 and seasonal flu vaccination campaigns performed in 2021 as reported in the Group Annual Integrated Report
            Diabetes: iSOS fact sheet and video


Promotion regarding occupational risks for health


 Based on the identified risks on site, specific awareness programs should be implemented to prevent /
       mitigate / manage the risks linked with e.g. noise, pregnancy at work, shift and night work, heat stress,
       risks when travelling or expatriation, ergonomic stressors, etc.


To support the OH teams on Site, the HSE global coordinating OH team has developed specific guidelines:

and also :

     Medical surveillance for shift and night workers (IND-HSE-OH-05.02-GUI; to be published)
     Medical recommendations for workers exposed to heat or severe clime conditions (IND-HSE-OH-10.10-GUI)
     Medical surveillance for fire rescuers and Hazmat response teams (IND-HSE-OH-10.09-GUI) 


Go to : Awareness of occupational risks for health: campaigns in the Solvay Group in 2016             
               EURO-OSHA's online Campaign Toolkit: a dedicated website to provide a step-by-step guide to planning and running effective promotional OSH campaigns 



  Your regional Medical coordinator
 OH homepage


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