AN INTER-AGENCY committee is being formed to look into ways of promoting better care of the mental wellbeing of working adults and of chronic diseases they suffer from, at their workplaces.

The National Tripartite Committee on Workplace Health will also study what has been done so far to encourage employers to carry out workplace health promotion programmes and employees to take part, and come up with new strategies to encourage more to do so.

The committee is being set up by the Ministry of Health (MOH), the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF).

It will be chaired jointly by the Health Promotion Board's (HPB) chairman, Mr Lucas Chow, and the director of NTUC's quality worklife department, Mr Yeo Guat Kwang.

Others serving on the committee will include MOH's deputy secretary Roy Quek, as well as representatives from the HPB, the Ministry of Manpower, Spring Singapore, the SNEF, the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises and several private companies.