Employer Wellness : Workplace Health and Wellness
Develop a Business Corporate Wellness Program for Your Employees Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellness program are abounding.
A few corporate health & wellness tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Corporate Wellness Program. How many employees dash outside during lunch for a smoke break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How frequently do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished? Is anyone working out or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals/objectives? The answers to these questions will give businesses a better idea of the Corporate Wellness Program that’s right for them.
2. Survey employees 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 businesses because employees don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellness problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Worksite Wellness Programs a tremendous kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Provide workers no cost flu shots, Blood Pressure (BP) checks, blood lipid screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, tobacco cessation programs and no cost mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from. Businesses keep their workers hopping during the week. Give workers a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the company dime. A corporate health and wellbeing program is an added benefit that workers get for working for the company!
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 wellbeing and health employee “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff members who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.