Challenge

Teams operate in safety critical roles. Performance is underpinned by wellbeing, and corporate support follows traditional routes of reactive approach, and general educational materials.

Solution

Peak4 run its programme, targeted at holistically and proactively supporting employees to be at their personal peak to deliver optimum performance, in their own lives and at work. Bringing elite sports mindset to the corporate environment, practitioners from the top of their game in professional sports gave personalised guidance.

Over the course of six months the WHOOP technology was worn and individuals tracked progress, with personalised actions plans developed by the Peak4 team. Wellness days were held utilising our specialist practitioners, inspirational talks given on specific wellbeing topics and Peak4 products given out to place wellbeing at the forefront.

Results

A moment of truth arose and it was realised that engineers were not prepared for ‘operational matchday’. Evidence gathered demonstrated major hydration challenges, inefficient calorie, and nutritional intake during works especially at times of extreme weather events and insufficient sleep / recovery times.

The interventions and specialist guidance referenced has been described as a game changing moment with Cadent and Network Plus’s Wellbeing Strategy being practically rewritten. An extra 300 WHOOP devices have been ordered for a wider exercise to be conducted in 2024, along with significant investment in seasonal wellbeing product packs for all employees and contractors (back office and field based) plus regular wellbeing Peak4 Solutions Suite Wellbeing packs, products and educational literature themed master classes being conducted
across all the service regions.

In time there is the expectation that;

• Safety performance will continue to improve.
  
• Operational performance optimisation.
  
• Contractor attrition will reduce along with both businesses being recognised as cultural ambassadors in the health, safety and wellbeing sector.