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Active travel and healthy workplaces

Active travel and healthy workplaces. Rachel Bromley, Sustrans. Travel to work contributes to decline in physical activity levels. “In the UK, 25 million people travel to work every day and most – around 71% - choose to do so by car.” Travel to Work factsheet, Department for Transport, 2007.

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Active travel and healthy workplaces

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  1. Active travel and healthy workplaces Rachel Bromley, Sustrans

  2. Travel to work contributes to decline in physical activity levels “In the UK, 25 million people travel to work every day and most – around 71% - choose to do so by car.”Travel to Work factsheet, Department for Transport, 2007

  3. A quarter of all car trips are under 2 miles under 1 mile 7% over 10 miles 1-2 miles 22% So most car trips could be walked or cycled 18% 5-10 miles 20% 2-5 miles 34 % Source: NTS 1999/2001 Update, Department for Transport (July 2002)

  4. Inactive lifestyles contribute to a huge range of diseases • Obesity • Coronary Heart Disease • Diabetes • Cancer • Osteoporosis • Mental health problems • Arthritis

  5. From “Our health, our care, our say” white paper 60% +54% 50% 40% +28% 30% +18% 20% +12% 10% +5% 0% Stroke Angina Heart Attack Hypertension Type 2 diabetes Source: Living in Britain 2004: Results from the 2002 General Household Survey; National Food Survey 2000 Table B1 Predicted growth in obesity-related disease by 2030

  6. Absenteeism • 172 million working days lost • to the British economy • costs £20 billion to the • business and public sector • and £100 billion to the wider • economy. Source: CBI/AXA 2008 Absence and labour turnover survey, and Black, 2008 Working for a healthier tomorrow: Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population

  7. The CMO’s recommendations “For most people, the easiest and most acceptable forms of physical activity are those that can be incorporated into everyday life. Examples include walking or cycling instead of travelling by car…..” At least five a week; the Chief Medical Officer’s report on physical activity, 2004

  8. Making healthy living possible “The top five policy responses assessed as having the greatest average impact on levels of obesity [include]:- increasing walkability / cyclability of the built environment…..”Foresight Tackling Obesities report, Government Office for Science 2007

  9. Healthy employees benefit the employer • reduced absenteeism • lower turnover rates • improved productivity and • employee morale • lower health care costs Source: Sustrans, 2008 Active travel and healthy workplaces information sheet

  10. NICE Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity in the Workplace ; NICE guidelines call on employers to invest in strategies that encourage all staff to be more active, with active travel to work playing a crucial role.

  11. NICE Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity in the Workplace • encourage employees to walk • and cycle • provide information about walking • and cycling routes • introduce and monitor an • organisation-wide programme to • increase physical activity • set organisation goals for physical • activity levels

  12. Active travel and healthy workplaces information sheet • Addresses the role of walking, cycling and other forms of physical activity in reducing levels of sickness absence from work. • Download from www.activetravel.org.uk

  13. Further information www.activetravel.org.uk

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