Wellbeing interactions with work practices, health and safety, and diversity
5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This CIPD Level 5 video explores how wellbeing interacts with key people management practices, specifically examining connections with work practices, health and safety, and diversity initiatives within unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work. Addressing assessment criteria AC 2.2, the video demonstrates how organisations must integrate wellbeing considerations across multiple HR functions to create a cohesive approach to employee welfare. By analysing these critical interactions, learners will understand how wellbeing initiatives complement and strengthen broader people management strategies, equipping them with the knowledge needed to champion holistic workplace wellbeing in their HR practice.
What this video covers
Covering Assessment Criterion 2.2 of the Level 5 unit 5OS07, this video addresses how wellbeing connects with three specific areas of people management practice: work practices, health and safety, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Rather than treating wellbeing as a standalone function, the video examines it as something that is shaped by, and in turn shapes, the policies and conditions employees encounter every day. Flexible working arrangements, hybrid and remote working, and working time practices all feature as concrete contexts through which this interaction is examined, with particular attention to the gap that can exist between formal policy and what employees are actually able to access in practice.
The health and safety dimension of the video gives substantial attention to psychosocial hazards, drawing on the Health and Safety Executive's Management Standards framework and its six identified stress factors — demands, control, support, relationships, role, and change. The video considers how these factors sit simultaneously within health and safety legislation and within broader wellbeing agendas, and why integrating the two functions produces more comprehensive outcomes than keeping them separate. Ergonomic considerations and the relationship between physical safety culture and employees' sense of psychological security are also among the specific topics covered.
On diversity, equity and inclusion, the video introduces the concept of intersectionality as a lens for understanding why different employee groups may have systematically different wellbeing experiences at work. It examines whether wellbeing initiatives — including physical activity programmes, mental health resources, and flexible working options — are genuinely accessible and relevant across a diverse workforce, rather than designed around a single or assumed norm. The question of cultural differences in how distress is expressed, and the distinct challenges faced by employees with multiple overlapping identities, are among the specific considerations the video brings into this part of the discussion.
Assessment Criteria 2.2
Discuss how wellbeing interacts with other areas of people management practice.
Indicative Content
Recognition of integration with all aspects of people management activities. Review with other areas of people practice – such as job design, work practices, health and safety, diversity, reward and recognition, engagement and communication, learning and development, organisation design and development.
What You'll Learn
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About 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This unit explores the importance of wellbeing in the workplace and the relationship with people practices and organisation strategy. The design and development of effective wellbeing programmes is examined to meet people and organisational requirements
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