Health and Wellness Leads : Workplace Health and Wellness

Organize a Business Company Health Promotion Program for Your Workers Today

The advantages to starting a workplace health & 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 launching an Corporate Health Promotion Program. How many employees run outside during lunch for a tobacco break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How frequently do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished? Is anyone exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals and objectives? The answers to these questions will give businesses a clearer idea of the Corporate Health Promotion Program that’s right for them.

2. Survey workers 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 workers don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of wellbeing and health issues at work or when they leave the office to go home.

3. Give Employee Health Promotion Programs a large kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Provide staff members 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. Organizations keep their staff members hopping during the week. Give staff members a chance to increase their healthy lifestyle on the business dime. A corporate wellness and health program is an added benefit that staff members get for working for the business!

4. Incent to live- offer cash money for workers 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 wellbeing and health employee “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who desire to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.