The workplace significantly impacts employees’ physical and mental well-being across various dimensions. Factors such as excessive sedentary behaviour, ergonomic conditions, and occupational hazards substantially impact physical health. Concurrently, work organization significantly influences occupational stress levels, thereby affecting mental health.

Diet and physical activity emerge as critical factors in managing both physical and mental health. They are integral components of health and development, leading to stronger immune systems, reduced risks of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and increased longevity and productivity. Dietary habits can influence mood, memory, and learning abilities throughout an individual’s lifespan. Conversely, physical inactivity disrupts various physiological mechanisms supporting brain health, thereby adversely affecting cognition and mental well-being. Spending a large majority of an employee’s time at the workplace makes it an ideal setting to promote lifestyle interventions.

Also, Using a theoretical, evidence-based framework in designing behaviour change interventions helps to achieve better results. The Behavioural Change Wheel (BCW) model provides a wide range of benefits for developing a workplace intervention to improve office workers’ eating and PA behaviours. The BCW goes beyond only explaining and predicting the behaviour but rather offers a systematic method to develop workplace interventions beginning with a complete analysis of the behaviour.

In this project, the BCW is used first to determine the facilitators and barriers to physical activity and healthy eating among employees and then to identify the most appropriate behavioural change techniques and delivery methods.

The proposed project aims to identify facilitators and barriers to eating healthy and engaging in physical activity at work, to develop a health promotion program focusing on fostering new nutritional and physical activity behaviours in the workplace. This initiative seeks to examine whether workplace initiatives to improve food and activity behaviours at work can also help alleviate stress and anxiety while enhancing the overall quality of life in the workplace. By implementing this program, participants are expected to experience improvements in their physical and mental health by adopting these new behaviours.