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An staff member wellness program does not have to exclusively promote fitness and health. Employee health promotion could be promoted through training on how to correctly handle workplace hazards.
Properly training personnel to lift correctly, use power tools safely, and handle emergency situations definitely promotes company health promotion.
Improper lifting is the number one cause of back [...]
Around the United States, organizations everywhere are implementing worker health promotion programs. There are several advantages to offering an worker health promotion program.
The health of a company’s personnel will have a large impact on productivity, absenteeism, job satisfaction and the bottom line profit. Beginning a health promotion program is an excellent place to start.
An employee [...]
The problem of increasing healthcare costs for corporations has lately become more prominent and more difficult to deal with. Over the past twenty years many corporations have encountered close to fifty percent raises in business health-insurance premiums.
This is due to poor work environments, increasing stress, and lowering health of workforce. A excellent way for a [...]
With the average American working 50 hours in a average work week, as opposed to the 40 hour week established in the 60’s, a wellness program is more important now than ever before.
This kind of health promotion program is designed to meet the needs of each worker individually, while promoting a healthful cohesive work unit [...]
It is not uncommon to see the typical worksite offer a company wellness program. These wellness programs can look quite different worksite to worksite, but the objectives are generally the same – to promote wellness.
Some companies will offer several services that promote wellness. Some workplaces have a health and fitness center on-site to use during [...]
A wellness program and career health wellness can go hand in hand. A wellness program in the workplace may be designed to help manage an worker’s healthcare needs as well as ensure that career objectives are healthful and in balance.
Now a health promotion program can’t fix something as severe as fallopian tube obstruction, but it [...]
Corporate health promotion is crucial to the productivity of every company. Health promotion programs can be extremelyvaluable tools when working toward bettering worker health. However, there are additional ways that corporations can improve the overall well being of their workforce.
One important way to improve overall health within your business is to create a shared wellness [...]
Precisely how can employers play a major role in worker health promotion?
Health begins with prevention. Preventive biometric screenings and healthy life choices reduce health risks. Organizations who are committed to supporting healthy workers can do so by periodically offering preventive medical care on site.
A mammogram screening opportunity is one way to promote wellness in the [...]
What began more than a decade ago as a pilot program in two locations, has now developed into a global initiative for Motorola. The business’s Employee Wellness is run by the Global Rewards group consisting of more than 50 employees and funded by an annual grant. Programs are consistently evaluated on their ability to deliver [...]
Obesity
Obesity, one of the fastest growing epidemics in America, is the most prevalent health risk among employees. Obese people are at more of a risk for several chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, stroke and hypertension.
Facts:
• The prevalence of overweight and obesity has doubled since 1980.
• Two-thirds (66.3 percent) of the [...]
