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Table 5 Theme of ‘workplace structures and cultures’ and verbatim examples

From: Barriers to and facilitators of implementing complex workplace dietary interventions: process evaluation results of a cluster controlled trial

Theme

Verbatim Examples

Workplace structures and cultures

1. Stakeholder buy-in: “We had really good contacts with HR, they helped with recruitment, they helped schedule some participants…..that was probably the easiest site in terms of scheduling and recruiting…. if someone didn’t turn up all I had to do was go downstairs and tell one of the HR people and they would actually go and get the employee” (Researcher 1 - follow-up stage).

2. Production work: “There’s a big, discrepancy between the support staff and the people who work on the line, in that the support staff have that freedom to, to go to these things” (Occupational health, nutrition education site—follow-up stage).

3.Organisational restructuring: “Those who are in charge they’d have the overall influence because they’re the ones bringing in the stock and stuff, so they have to be behind it 100 %. Like if there was opposition from the management that could hinder it” (Employee, nutrition education site—baseline stage).

“Many employees they left the company and were moved to other departments, so it was hard to get them back for the last stage of the study but we got agreement from the managers in order to allow us to complete the last stage” (Researcher 3 - follow-up stage).

4.Workplace culture: “Well it’s another concern, its more rural here, people are a bit more conservative about their food, I mean we’ve been asked over the years for stuff like Panini’s, honestly, I’d give them a week and they just don’t go” (Catering Manager, environmental site baseline stage).