The HSE is the largest employer in the state with over 72,695 WTE employees. A long-term strategic approach to developing a healthy workplace is needed, both to safeguard the investment in employees and to provide improved service delivery for service users. The foundation for any workplace health strategy is the promotion of attendance, management of absence, a reduction in workplace related illness and its causes and a reduction in the length of time employees are absent from the workplace. This strategy will provide the opportunity to integrate the HSE’s Occupational Health, Employee Assistance, Health Promotion and Health & Safety Services throughout the HSE into an overarching strategy that can be easily communicated to all managers and employees and embedded in the management processes of the organisation.