Drive Business Results for Your Employees
Equip your organisation with the tools, training, and partnerships to empower your team and join a growing network of leaders working across 10,000+ businesses to build a healthier, more active Lancashire.
Workplace Courses:
FAQ's:
What is workplace health training?
Workplace health training helps employees develop knowledge and skills to improve wellbeing, manage stress, and create healthier, safer work environments. It covers topics like mental health, physical activity, nutrition, and stress management. We have different levels based on your Workplace needs.
Why is workplace health important?
A healthy workforce is more engaged, productive, and resilient. Focusing on wellbeing reduces sickness absence, improves morale, and helps create a positive company culture. UK employers have a legal duty to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their employees under several key laws and regulations.
Who should take part in workplace health training?
Everyone! Training is designed for all employees, from managers to frontline staff. Everyone plays a role in building a healthier, more supportive workplace.
How can this training benefit my role or team?
It helps you recognise signs (in yourself and others), improves communication and teamwork, and equips you with tools to maintain wellbeing and support colleagues.
Put learning into practice through regular check-ins, Workplace Health champions, activity challenges, and continued access to health resources or follow-up workshops.
Can training be tailored to our organisation’s needs?
Absolutely. We work closely with businesses, clubs, and community groups to identify skill gaps and tailor training that fits your goals and workplace environment. Training can be bespoke, online or face to face delivery. Just contact learningzone@activelancashire.org.uk and we can discuss what options suit you best.
How can we help your workplace?
Join 80+ Leading Organisations that have Partnered with Active Lancashire
Our Workplace Health Champions Training:
Our NCFE-accredited Workplace Health Champions Training empowers employees with the tools to drive positive change where they work.
This enables organisations to support wellbeing through physical activity, events, and mental health initiatives.
At Active Lancashire, we believe healthier teams build stronger businesses. That’s why our Workplace Health qualification equips people with the confidence and knowledge to champion wellbeing, boost morale, and create supportive, thriving work environments.
The Outcome:
Our Workplace Health Champion training pathway supports individuals and organisations to embed wellbeing into the heart of their culture.
You’ll learn how to support colleagues by using physical activity and wellbeing sessions as a gateway to further assistance if needed, such as mental wellbeing support, helping colleagues how to lead healthier lifestyles, and how to signpost them to further help if necessary.
Whether you’re just getting started, or ready to level up your impact, our structured programme builds confidence, capability and impact, one step at a time.
How it Works:
Over 1,000 people across Lancashire are already leading the charge,
from schools and offices to warehouses and frontline teams.
If you’re ready to create a workplace where people feel supported, valued,
and healthier, it’s time to step up.
Become a Workplace Health Champion. Be the reason your workplace
changes for the better.
“If we intervene early and provide the right support, people can stay at work for longer. That is a goal that is great for individuals, great for businesses and great for society.”
Chair of the Commission for Healthier Working Lives.
Benefits of Workforce Health Promotion:
To the Organisation
- A positive and caring image
- Improved staff morale
- Reduced staff turnover
- Reduced absenteeism
- Increased productivity
- Reduced health care/ insurance costs
- Reduced risk of fines and litigation
To the Organisation
- Enhanced self-esteem
- Reduced stress
- Improved morale
- Increased job satisfaction
- Increased skills for health protection
- Improved health
- Improved sense of well-being
Bitesize e-Learning:
Bitesize e-Learning Courses:
Personalised Health Care Training:
At Active Lancashire, we take great pride in our partnership with the NHS Integrated Care Board, delivering health coaching, Making Every Contact Count (MECC), and Patient Activation Measures training.
What is Making Every Contact Count? A Chat to Change.
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in conversations about their health.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy weight, physical activity and mental health and may link to local social prescribing offers.
Why are we doing this?
Many long-term diseases affecting our population are closely linked to known behavioural risk factors, with 40% of the UK’s disability adjusted life years lost being attributable to tobacco, hypertension, alcohol, being overweight or being physically inactive.
Our public and community services provide thousands of opportunities every day to work with and support people in living the best lives they can and in accessing the services and help they need to do this.
What are the benefits for your staff, service and patients?
Implementing Making Every Contact Count will require training and up-skilling of staff with the knowledge, skills and resources necessary to support these lifestyle behaviour changes.
Frontline staff and volunteers routinely have thousands of day-to-day contacts each year with service users, and patients and MECC is about using these to empower and support everyone – including staff themselves – to make healthier choices to achieve positive health outcomes.
For organisations, MECC will provide staff with the leadership, environment, training and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC can provide the competence and confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages. This helps encourage people to change their way of thinking/behaviour(s) and can direct them to local services that can support them.
For individuals, MECC means seeking support when needed and taking action to improve their own health and wellbeing.
Our collaborative efforts have a clear, unified goal: enhancing the health and wellbeing of the people within our community. We believe in providing equal access to healthcare services, ensuring that everyone receives the same high-quality care and
treatment outcomes.
