Corporate Wellness Blog : Workplace Health and Wellness
Posted by Corporate Wellness | Posted in Corporate Wellness, Health Program Ideas, Health and Wellness | Posted on 17-06-2009
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Establish a Employer Workplace Health Promotion Program for Your Employees Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellbeing program are many.
A few corporate health and wellness tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if workers lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Worksite Wellness Program. How many workers run outside during lunch for a tobacco break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How frequently do the junk food-laden snack machines have to be replenished? Is anyone exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals? The answers to these questions will give organizations a clearer idea of the Worksite Wellness Program that’s right for them.
2. Survey staff members to evaluate their healthy lifestyle habits. Are they exercising regularly? Eat three square meals a day? Have regular physicals? Really? Then what planet are they on? Because we would love to visit! A corporate wellness program benefits most employers because staff members don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellbeing problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Company Health Promotion Programs a big kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Provide employees free flu shots, Blood Pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, tobacco cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from. Employers keep their employees hopping during the week. Give employees a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the business dime. A corporate wellness and health program is an added benefit that employees get for working for the business!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for workers to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for health and wellness employee “winners.” And, advocate a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who wish to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.