Major themes are attention for the sick-listed temporary agency worker, offering a perspective regarding RTW, and reducing sickness absence.
His system helped contain the epidemic, reducing sickness and mortality rates among family members.
Everything from productivity to retention of valuable staff and reducing sickness absences is linked to working out what promotes wellbeing for your people and what undermines it.
The Tories also query why the government has identified £500m in savings from reducing sickness in NHS staff in 2011-2, but is not doing anything about this year.
And it also makes good business sense: "including economic savings and benefits from improved productivity, profitability, and reduced sickness and absenteeism".
An important precondition for reducing sickness absence, and thereby its costs, is to understand the underlying mechanisms.
Other changes include measures to reduce sickness absence, restructuring of car entitlements, changes to mileage rates and scrapping the council's car lease scheme.
First, it has tried via social partnership: the unions and employers have adopted voluntary agreements at the branch and firm level (so-called Inclusive Workplace Agreements) to reduce sickness absence.
He said £3m could be saved next year by reducing sickness absences among council staff and that £1.5m could be saved in 2013-14 - and more in future years - by reviewing the procurement processes with private companies.
