Alexander Forbes Healthcare and Risk has launched a well-being programme to beat the rise in UK poor health.
The modular programme is designed to provide employers with the tools to prevent increases in sickness and absence in their workforce.
Modules include education on diet and exercise, help with stress and depression and advice on giving up smoking and alcohol use.
Bernie Clark, head of Healthcare & Risk, said: "Well-being covers a vast area and goes far beyond the physical aspects of general health.
"It includes social factors, such as our interaction with friends and colleagues; environmental factors, such as where we work and live; economic elements such as the state of our finances; and our emotional well-being, stress, general mood and behaviours."
Clark added while many companies offered health benefits, such as private medical insurance (PMI) and group income protection (group IP), employee health now formed a core element of corporate and social responsibility.
Employers can select from a variety of options what is relevant to the needs of their particular workforce and business.
And each staff member will receive a personalised programme with an ongoing health behaviour and lifestyle assessment focused on lifestyle habits, work-life balance, emotional well-being, medical history and health beliefs.
The company will also receive a report on the overall health and well-being of staff. And there will be options to attend wellbeing workshops.
According to Alexander Forbes research, in the 12 months to June 2011, 11.6% of people who left their jobs did so due to ill-health. And nearly two-fifths of employers said stress-related absence had increased in the past year.
