Drug Education and Intervention in the Workplace

What Do You Seek to Achieve?

Think about why you’re evaluating and what your assessment is going to measure.

If you’re trying to find out whether program has been efficacious, see if you stuck to your mission statement and met your goals.

If you do not have a mission statement or goals, agree with management and your employee Employee Health Promotion Program Committee how your organization will measure success.

For example, you can track success by changes in:

• Physical measures (e.g., strength, flexibility, waist circumference of workers).
• Psychological measures (e.g., employee morale, satisfaction levels, stress levels).
• Productivity measures (e.g., decline in absenteeism rates, increased employee productivity).

Thinking About workers

If you’re considering making improvements to the plan, think about whether the plan is still relevant and appropriate for staff members. See if there are any barriers to participation in the program or to participation in physical activity during work.

As workers are the ones participating in the program, it’s valuable to give them a chance to provide feedback on the physical exercise program.

Choosing an Evaluation Method

Decide on your evaluation method. Both measurable results (e.g., absenteeism rates or questionnaire responses) and descriptive results (e.g., one-on-one interviews or focus groups) can be used to evaluate. The method you choose will depend on the time and funding available and what you want to measure.

Deciding How to Do the Evaluation

Plan when and where you will do your assessment (and who will be evaluated). For more information, read the “Types of Evaluations” section on this website.
You may want to pilot test your assessment (e.g., with participants of the Employee Health Promotion Program Committee) before sending it out to staff members. The employee Employee Health Promotion Program Committee may also want to evaluate the initiative’s planning process.

Doing the Assessment

• Compare your results to baseline information (i.e., evaluation results from before the launch of your plan). If you do not have this information, save your evaluation results to compare with later results. You can also look at other information you may have, such as employee satisfaction survey results.
• Analyze and share meaningful and simple-to-be aware of results with upper management and staff members.
• Assessment results can be used to improve the current physical exercise program and/or to foster new drives in future.