Posted by admin | Posted in Health Program Ideas, Screening and Intervention Programs, Wellness Program Incentives | Posted on 10-03-2009
Establish a Company Employee Health Promotion Program for Your Workers Today
The benefits to starting a workplace health & wellness program are abounding.
A few corporate wellness and health tips to get staff members started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Employee Health Promotion Program. How many employees run outside during lunch for a tobacco break? Would a tobacco cessation program help? How often do the junk food-laden snack machines really should be replenished? Is anyone working out or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals and objectives? The answers to these questions will give corporations a clearer idea of the Employee Health Promotion 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 employers because workers don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of wellness and health concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Company Health Promotion Programs a large kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer employees 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. Businesses keep their employees hopping during the week. Give employees a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the corporation dime. A corporate health and wellbeing program is an additional benefit that employees receive for working for the corporation!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for staff members 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 wellness and health employee “winners.” And, bolster a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff members who desire to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.