Posted by Health Handouts | Posted in Health Handouts, Health Tips | Posted on 24-07-2009
Organize a Company Workplace Health Promotion Program for Your Employees Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellbeing program are many.
A few corporate wellbeing and health tips to get staff members started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if workers lead a healthy lifestyle before launching an Workplace Wellness Program. How many workers run outside during lunch for a tobacco break? Would a tobacco cessation program help? How often do the junk food-laden snack machines must be replenished? Is anyone working out or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals/objectives? The answers to these questions will give corporations a clearer idea of the Workplace Wellness Program that’s right for them.
2. Survey employees to ascertain 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 employees don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellness problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Company Wellness Programs a big kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer staff members free flu shots, Blood Pressure checks, blood lipid 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. Businesses keep their staff members hopping during the week. Give staff members a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the employer dime. A corporate health & wellness program is an additional benefit that staff members get for working for the employer!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for employees to lose weight, commit to a tobacco cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Promote humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness and health employee “winners.” And, bolster a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring employees who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.