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Improving Workers Wellbeing Program

According to the International Labour Organization, workplace
wellbeing relates to all aspects of working life including quality
and safety of the physical environment, how workers feel
about their work, organization, and more. Measures for
workplace well-being aim to complement OSH measures,
ensuring that workers are safe, healthy, satisfied and engaged
at work.

HANDS Team conducting a Focus Group session with
Interloop females on Maternal Health

Project Objective:
The program has been designed to be carried out over a span of
14 months with an objective to:
• Improve health-related knowledge of low-income women
and men workers
• I ncrease the uptake of health services and products
as a positive behavior change
A satisfied working mother and her child at the daycare
• Grow the capacity of factory management to implement
Workers' well-being is a key factor in determining an effective trainings in the workplace
organization’s long-term effectiveness. Potential solutions,
such as leadership, communication, and a focus on learning • Partner supplier will be able to demonstrate business
and development are essential for anyone committed to benefits for investing in workforce well-being
making the workplace a more decent and satisfying place.
Training Topics:
At Interloop, our ambition is to transform lives, improve 6 identified training topics are to be covered under this program:
wellbeing, and build a diverse, empowered, inclusive workforce
and grow our business while using our resources ethically. And • Nutrition
realizing the need for adopting global health promotion • Maternal Health
policies, Interloop in consultation with its prestigious customer • Birth Spacing
Stichd, initiated the ‘Improving Workers Wellbeing’ (IWWB)
program, in 2019, being run by Levi’s at its selected supplier • Aids and Hepatitis
sites. • Drug Abuse and Diseases
• Common Disease

In July 2019, a kick-off orientation meeting was organized for
factory management, HR, line supervisors, and EHS
Department at Interloop Limited Plant 2, Faisalabad. The aim
was to identify the roles, responsibilities & expectations of
stakeholders, to plan Focus Group discussions with management
& workers (male & female) and to conduct surveys. Gaps
were identified, along-with available services, management’s
perspective towards workers’ health and to understand
existing levels of worker knowledge, behavior, and access to
health. The discussions were led by HANDS for IWWB Project.

The HANDS team with the facilitation of factory representatives
HANDS Team briefing the management about the Workers Wellbeing also carried out a need assessment for health facilities. The
Program first group of 80 male and 6 female members received
training in five areas, whereas, the session on Common
HANDS with its CSO partner BSR/HER (Health Enables Disease was delayed due to lockdown to prevent the spread
Return); a global public-private partnership to empower of Covid-19 pandemic. After finishing training, these Peer Health
low-income women workers along global supply chains, is Educators (PHEs) will deliver their learnings to their co-workers.
the implementing partner in Pakistan for the IWWB program. Upon the completion of the program, 4739 workers; 4452
IWWB program will be initially implemented at Plant 2 & 4, males and 287 females will benefit from this health &
Interloop Industrial Park, Faisalabad. wellbeing program at Interloop’s Hosiery Plants 2 &4.

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