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Are you Good4Work? | IMPAC health and safety

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Good4Work is a free online workplace wellbeing tool. It’s been designed for small to medium-sized workplaces and those just getting started with workplace wellbeing.

The tool takes you through a step-by-step process to help you identify and complete actions to change your workplace environment and culture. It focuses on four areas: the way we work, the place we work, the way we connect, and the way we lead.  

How it works

Good4Work starts with a short quiz asking you to rate your workplace against 22 statements that cover the essential elements for a positive workplace culture and environment.

The tool has been upgraded after user feedback showed most organisations using the tool wanted more staff engagement in wellbeing. A new function now allows for the first user to send the quiz to their teammates.

The combined results can be shared with staff, with graphs that highlight how a workplace compares to other Kiwi businesses in the same industry. You’ll also see how your responses compare to those of your team - what's important to you may be different to what's important to your people.

This provides workplaces with a starting point and leads to strategies and resources to help them develop a plan. The quiz questions are anonymous, allowing staff to honestly rate their workplace.

You’ll then get a downloadable to-do list to share with your team, complete with checklists, ideas, and resources.

Why use Good4Work

As the website says, “A positive and healthy workplace is a simple, low-cost way to reduce stress, fatigue, injury, and error and improve engagement, productivity, and innovation.”

It goes on to list the benefits of looking after the people you work with:

  • Increased productivity
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Improved engagement
  • Improved morale and increased job satisfaction
  • Shows you care about your people, improving your image as a workplace of choice
  • Increased energy and motivation
  • Supports health and safety
  • Improved work life balance – which further improves the health and wellbeing of your people

Extra resources

Good4Work also provide a tool library filled with excellent resources that support their four areas of focus: the way we work, the place we work, the way we connect, and the way we lead. View the full downloadable library here.