Health Handouts : Workplace Health and Wellness

Organize a Organization Company Health Promotion Program for Your Employees Today

The benefits to starting a workplace health and wellbeing program are abounding.

A few corporate health and wellbeing tips to get employees 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 tobacco break? Would a tobacco cessation program help? How often do the junk food-laden vending 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 companies a better idea of the Workplace Health Promotion Program that’s right for them.

2. Survey staff members to determine their healthy lifestyle habits. Are they working out 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 health and wellbeing issues at work or when they leave the office to go home.

3. Give Corporate Wellness Programs a sizable kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer workers free flu shots, Blood Pressure 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. Companies keep their workers hopping during the week. Give workers a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the company dime. A corporate wellbeing and health program is an added benefit that workers receive for working for the company!

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 health and wellbeing employee “winners.” And, promote a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff members who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.