The Portuguese Lab for Healthy Workplaces aims to study in depth, systematically and ecologically the health and well-being of professionals and organizations and to collaborate in the promotion and protection of health and risks in work environments in Portugal, not neglecting performance.
The aim is to characterise the national situation in terms of intervention needs and the rationale, design/structuring, evaluation and innovation of intervention programmes and policies. Furthering their impact on health and well-being, healthy and sustainable development of professionals and organisations in constant connection with society, in a logic anchored in the triple bottom line (Profit, People, Planet).
The following specific objectives can be identified:
Characterize needs in terms of health promotion and disease protection, psychosocial risks in the work of professionals and organizations in Portugal relating to performance;
Propose appropriate measures to the competent authorities;
Disclose data in an annual report;
Evaluate the responses and their adequacy to the needs;
Identify and propose relevant and emerging areas/themes for research and development;
Training and consultancy in the area of healthy work environments;
Identify and disseminate good practices;
Deeply study the relationship between well-being and productivity from a strategic perspective;
Give opinions on relevant matters in the area of healthy work environments.