Posted by Health Wellness | Posted in Health And Wellness In The Workplace | Posted on 27-07-2009
Design a Company Company Health Promotion Program for Your Employees Today
The benefits to starting a workplace health & wellness 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 staff members lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Corporate Wellness Program. How many staff members run outside at lunchtime for a tobacco break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How often do the junk food-laden snack machines must be replenished? Is anyone exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals/objectives? The answers to these questions will give organizations a better idea of the Corporate Wellness Program that’s right for them.
2. Survey workers to determine 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 companies because workers don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of wellness and health problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Corporate Wellness Programs a tremendous kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer staff members free flu shots, Blood Pressure (BP) checks, blood lipid screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, smoking cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from. Employers keep their staff members hopping during the week. Give staff members a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the organization dime. A corporate health & wellness program is an additional benefit that staff members get for working for the organization!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for workers to lose weight, commit to a tobacco cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness and health employee “winners.” And, bolster a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.