Join leading organisations in #CountyDurham that are prioritising workplace health and wellbeing through the Better Health County Durham 👏 The Award will offer you FREE training, advice and awareness sessions. 📧 [email protected]

With the global pandemic in mind, the past two years have been extremely difficult for all. This years' Awareness Week (4th to 8th October 2021) will be paying particular attention to: Working from Home, Studying at Home, and Spending more time at Home. backcare.org.uk/i-have-back-or…

Thanks Joe Astbury for the kind words of encouragement too! Another vital part of a firefighters role is to maintain our fitness to respond to the variety of incidents we face to keep our community safe #firefit 👍❤️🚒🔥👩‍🚒 💪 🥇

Do you know your risk of Type 2 diabetes? Find out today using the Diabetes UK risk tool. bit.ly/Kn0wYourR1sk

Today is #NationalFitnessDay! 👍💪 To celebrate, we're competing against North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service as part of our #999Challange where teams have to complete 999 burpees as fast as they can😁Here's our Cohort 5 of apprentice firefighters getting involved! 👨‍🚒 #Firefit #Fitness

99 burpees completed in 6:43 by FF Havid of Durham Blue Watch today as part of the #999challenge where County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service are competing against North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service in line with #NationalFitnessDay. Great effort!👩‍🚒😅#firefit #Competition

Another day, another burpee challenge completed. APP FF Clark representing County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service completing 99 burpees in 6 minutes 19 seconds! Brilliant effort👏 #999challenge #competition #firefit North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service NYFRS: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing

Here is a short clip📽️of County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service Communications Assistant Andy who completed 99 burpees as part of the #999challenge in 8 minutes👏. The challenge is aimed at promoting physical activity in the workplace as well as generating some friendly competition with North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service 🚒

Next week County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service will be raising awareness around #backpain in line with #BackPainAwarenessWeek through a series of informative videos from BackCare Charity that will be sent out to all of our staff to help raise awareness!👍

Great time submitted by County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service Senior Business Fire Safety Officer daniel thompson this weekend completing his 99 burpees in 4:34! 👏 The #999challenge is really starting to pick up pace!⌛️ NYFRS: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing

Back Care Awareness Week 4th to 8th October is underway. On a mission to prevent unnecessary back injury backcare.org.uk/i-have-back-or…

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay lets end the stigma and start talking about Mental Health💚 We are extremely proud of our Crew Manager Martin Hollingsworth & @IFUCARESHARE who are raising awareness of mental health & encouraging others to talk. #EndTheStigma #ItsOkToNotBeOk

This week in the area of health and wellbeing we are focussing our attention on #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth .To support this event we are encouraging staff to attend an awareness workshop hosted by the fantastic @CancerAwareNE team this Wednesday!

Our latest attempt at the 999 Burpee Challenge comes from Peterlee Greens 🚒completing 999 burpees between them in an impressive 27 minutes 36 seconds 💪 well done team! 😃 #999Challenge #FireFit #MondayMotivation

Cohort 5 Firefighter Apprentices were recently put through the bleep test (20m) which is a challenging assessment requiring individuals to work to maximal effort. Excellent performance from everyone who took part!🏃‍♂️😅🏃‍♀️

Today we are raising awareness to our staff around #menopause and #bonehealth in line with #WorldMenopauseDay

Great to have the @CancerAwareNE team with us yesterday at County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service HQ who were raising awareness to staff around the area of breast cancer in line with #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

Today we will be submitting all of our work carried out over the past year to Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) Better Health County Durham where assessment will take place to see if we have achieved 'Maintaining Excellence' 🤞

Today is the first day of Alcohol Awareness Week, on the theme of ‘Alcohol and relationships’! Keep an eye on our social media channels this week to learn more. Let us know you’re taking part by using #AlcoholAwarenessWeek!

Trying to avoid alcohol in January? Take part in #DryJanuary by downloading the free Try Dry app – it also doubles your chances of a totally alcohol-free month! alcoholchange.org.uk/get-involved/c…