New INSST tool: assessment of health promotion programs at work
The INSST after 2 years of research, reading more than 1000 articles belonging to the scientific bibliography and in-depth review of between 10 and 12 calculators from private companies that were dedicated to providing prevention advisory services, has launched this tool online with which we will be able to estimate the economic return on the investment made in programs to promote health and well-being for workers, in addition to being able to assess the methodological quality of said programs.
The team of experts in health economics, occupational health and preventive management planning who have developed this tool, chose to look at the Anglo-Saxon tool created by the Ministry of Labour and British Social Security in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation, since its health coverage model was the most similar to ours, in contrast to the North American model, based on private coverage.
The objective of INSST in developing this tool is to advise companies that were repeatedly asked in all the sessions they held how to calculate the return on investment made in health promotion programs, since they used this information to convince management of the goodness of investing in said programs. Furthermore, from their experience they knew that the famous mantra so often named:
for €1 invested in health promotion you get €2.5 in return, it is not correct
nor adjusts to reality.
We can access the tool at the link: http://costespromosalud.insst.es/
Features:
- Free
- Free access
- Only requires CNAE and company size
- No company data is recorded in the database except the above (data that the INSST uses to know what type of companies use the tool for statistical purposes)
- Confidentiality
- It is not a financial management tool, it is a pedagogical tool for evaluating results
From the home page of the tool, companies are also helped in evaluating the return on investment in matters of business excellence and prevention management, for which several technical prevention notes are attached that guide in this regard:
- NTP 751: Preventive action and generation of intangible assets
- NTP 911: Productivity and working conditions (I): conceptual bases for its measurement
- NTP 912: Productivity and working conditions (II): indicators
On March 5, Mr. Francisco Marqués, director of the INSST health promotion department, presented this tool through a webinar in PRLInnovación whose access is free.
Fraternidad-Muprespa in its desire to collaborate with its associated companies in improving the work well-being of its employees, it has videos and news that it makes available to said companies on its portal http://www.rincondelasalud.com/.
