In July, the first meeting of CEMEX UK’s new Wellbeing Strategy Group was held. This group is made up of people from across the business’s different product areas, alongside representatives from Health & Safety, HR, and Social Impact.

The objective of the group is to support the development of our wellbeing strategy, initially focusing on mental health, smoking cessation, and menopause. These key focus areas were agreed in the group’s first meeting, along with ratifying the UK’s Health and Wellbeing Plan. The plan covers physical and mental health, as well as workforce experience. Campaigns and training for each of these focus areas is now being developed as appropriate – watch this space!

The meeting also saw an open and honest conversation about wellbeing issues that can affect those in our workforce, while examining initial absence rates for the last few years. Work is being done to provide more detail on absence rates to allow the group to drill down further on any common reasons or issues, while maintaining anonymity.

A defined list of actions was agreed at the end of this first meeting against each focus area, with meetings arranged bimonthly moving forward.

Further detail about the activities planned to support employee wellbeing will be shared with the wider workforce when relevant.