Ensuring the nutritional health of UK food manufacturing employees: Building evidence-driven behaviour change interventions amongst a hard-to-reach occupational group

Other investigators

To be announced

Description

The UK food manufacturing workforce is essential to sustaining food supply and employs ~400,000 staff. This is a hard-to-reach population group - predominantly male and employed in manual low paid jobs. Most jobs in the sector involve working atypical hours (e.g., outside 7a.m. to 7p.m., weekends, long hours and, zero-hour contracts). These occupational exposures have been associated with less healthy diet behaviours and increased cardiometabolic health risks. Research investigating nutritional health behaviours of UK manufacturing employees, especially those working atypical hours, and the role of employers in promoting health behaviours is limited. Working with Marlow Foods Ltd, this scoping project aims to understand current provision of diet and wellbeing interventions in UK food manufacturing and how well interventions meet the needs of hard-to-reach employee groups.

Project keywords

(1) Diet behaviour (2) Workplace health (3) Occupational nutrition (4) Scoping

Outputs

To be announced.

Email contact

Rachel.gibson@kcl.ac.uk