A couple of decades ago, workplace responsibility for many companies went little further than paying adequate salaries and adhering to corporate health and safety policies. Today, this responsibility has expanded to encompass issues such as fostering ethnic and gender diversity, creating opportunities for flexible working, promoting healthy eating and delivering training programmes to help workers continue to develop both professionally and personally.

The health of workers is a growing area of focus for companies. At Foyle Foods, a health and wellbeing programme as well as improvements in health and safety procedures have not only fulfilled the company’s responsibilities to its workforce. It has delivered business benefits too, including a £100,000 ($197,000) reduction from the previous year in its employers’ liability insurance premium.