Case studies
Improving employee wellness through nutrition
Harmony’s nutrition project, rolled out at our South African operations, improves Harmonites’ understanding of and access to nutritious food through six focus areas. Project goals include:
- To develop resilient Harmonites with good eating habits
- Reducing lifestyle disease and fatigue
- Increasing labour availability
- Contributing to producing high performance teams that are not just “fit for work” but “fit for life”.
Food and nutrition literacy (FNLIT)
We promote FNLIT interventions to improve our employees’ understanding of and relationship with food. The model we designed includes functional, interactive and critical literacy, along with their associated competencies.
Residence diet
management
We provide a leading practice nutrition programme, meal plan, menus and effective monitoring and management that enable food service units to meet nutritional requirements.
Quality assurance in residence kitchens and for external providers
Our systemic efforts enable residence kitchens and external food facilities to meet desired levels of quality expectations.
Access to food
and nutrition
Providing access to nutritious food and hydration supports workplace activities and a healthy and active lifestyle.
Nutrition management in
health programmes
Our programmes include effective nutrition and dietary management practices.
Relationship between nutrition and productivity
Our approach and recommendations consider standardised pharmaceutical supplements and a research-based proposal that examines the link between nutrition and productivity.
Key highlights
- By year end, we completed eight of the 10 campaign themes and had 159 462 face-to-face interactions with employees, reflecting employee enthusiasm for learning about healthy eating principles
- We completed 1 796 upskilling interactions across the designated themes for residence food handlers
- The project launched Harmony’s first-ever food and nutrition booklet, available in multiple languages, providing user-friendly content across the 10 themes, aligned with the project’s past, current and upcoming FNLIT campaigns.
Over the past 12 months, the project’s focus has been on FNLIT, a relatively new concept that connects food-related knowledge and skills with healthy diets. To enhance FNLIT at Harmony, we ran various training and awareness campaigns covering the 10 FNLIT themes. The campaigns included booklets and posters distributed in different languages with user-friendly information, in-person roadshows hosted by healthcare educators, and various digital communication, including information on our apps and TV screens at operations.
