The coordinators of a revised 2019 National Workplace Wellness Policy (NWWP) for Barbados are in the process of embarking on an island-wide sensitization programme designed to equip employers on the most effective ways of implementing the plan.This has been disclosed by Professor Dwayne Devonish, who jointly authored the policy with attorney at law, Maya L. Kellman.“The next step for the coordinators is to engage in a series of public awareness-building programmes. These are to assist employers and communities in understanding wellness and how to develop wellness programmes within their spaces,” Devonish who is Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus told Barbados TODAY.“The key thing here now is a bit of hand-holding of the employers and communities in terms of how they could actually prepare wellness programmes and actually execute them because I don’t think we are doing a good job when it comes to developing wellness programmes. This would be like a kind of educational drive to those stakeholders,” Professor Devonish added.
