Drug Education and Intervention in the Workplace : Workplace Health and Wellness
Posted by admin | Posted in Drug Education and Intervention | Posted on 09-06-2009
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Create a Employer Workplace Wellness Program for Your Staff Members Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellbeing program are abounding.
A few corporate wellness and health tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before starting an Employee Health Promotion Program. How many employees run outside during lunch for a smoke 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 better idea of the Employee Health Promotion 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 wellness and health problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Worksite Health Promotion Programs a sizable kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Provide workers 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. Organizations keep their workers hopping during the week. Give workers a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the corporation dime. A corporate health and wellness program is an additional benefit that workers get for working for the corporation!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for staff members 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, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff members who wish to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.