Workplace Health and Wellness

by Health Promotion on August 11, 2009

Develop a Organization Company Health Promotion Program for Your Employees Today

The advantages to starting a workplace wellbeing and health program are many.

A few corporate wellness and health tips to get workers started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:

1. Look around, and determine if staff members lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Workplace Health Promotion Program. How many staff members dash outside at lunch for a smoke 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 objectives and goals? The answers to these questions will give corporations a clearer idea of the Workplace Health Promotion Program that’s right for them.

2. Survey staff members 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 businesses because staff members don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellness issues at work or when they leave the office to go home.

3. Give Corporate Health Promotion Programs a big kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer workers no cost flu shots, Blood Pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, smoking cessation programs and no cost mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from. Employers keep their workers hopping during the week. Give workers a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the organization dime. A corporate wellness and health program is an additional benefit that workers get for working for the organization!

4. Incent to live- offer cash money for employees to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Promote humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for health & wellness 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.

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