Posted by Employer Wellness | Posted in Employer Wellness | Posted on 25-08-2010
Start a Wellness Program for Your Workers Today
The benefits to starting a wellness program are many.
A few corporate wellness tips to get workers started on the path to a healthier lifestyle –
1. Look around, and determine when workers lead a healthy lifestyle before beginning an worker wellness program.
• How many workers dash outside during lunch for a smoke break?
• Would a tobacco use cessation program help?
• How often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished?
• is anyone exercising or taking benefit of local walking trails as part of their healthful living goals?
The answers to these questions will give businesses a better idea of the worker wellness program that’s right for them.
2. Survey workers to determine their healthful lifestyle habits.
• Are they exercising regularly?
• Eat three square meals a day?
Have regular physicals? Really? Then what planet are they on?
Because we’d love to visit! A wellness program benefits most businesses because workers do not have the time or energy to stay on top of wellness concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Provide wellness programs a large kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer workers free flu shots, blood pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, use of 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 amp up their healthy lifestyle on the business dime. A wellness program is an added benefit that workers get for working for the company!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for employees to lose weight, commit to a tobacco use cessation program and ordinarily enjoy a healthier lifestyle.
Be sure to encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness worker “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.