Archive for October, 2008
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs Improve Retention
Employee retention is a challenge. Worksite Health and Wellness Programs can help. offering perks such as incentives to exercise, healthy food, and stress management and weight loss programs at work is a way to keep your workers satisfied.
Attracting new staff members are also a challenge, and anything you can do to “stand out” from other [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs: Special Situations
Sometimes, Worksite Health and Wellness Programs can take advantage of “special situations” that happen and which offer an excellent opportunity for worker education and support, at little or no expense to the employer. Not only do these situations help workers personally, but also they are an opportunity for the employer to be seen in a [...]
Removing the Stigma of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are also an effective way to educate workers/parents about substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, depression, mental illness, learning disabilities, and other issues that affect adults, children, and teens. Arming parents, other relatives, and concerned friends with information is a way to prevent problems in the future, for themselves and [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
What Are Worksite Health and Wellness Programs?
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are designed to promote and support employee health and wellness through education and awareness programs primarily based at the worksite. The program is a win-win in that workers benefit from learning and staying well, and the employer has increased loyalty and less rates of [...]
The Organizational Benefits of Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
Even the best and most innovative businesses are experiencing the impact worker well-being on their organizations’ performance. The bad news is that many of these businesses are unaware of the extent to which less-than-optimal worker health and well-being is impacting workforce capacity and performance. The goods news is that there is an increasing body of [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs: Low-Cost Activities That Work
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs that support workers and the environment that they work in have been shown to be a good return on investment. Worksite Health and Wellness Programs may be extensive and sometimes costly. However, there are ways for small businesses to make positive changes at little or no cost.
Worksite Health and Wellness [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs: Low-Cost Activities That Work
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs that support workers and the environment that they work in have been shown to be a good return on investment. Worksite Health and Wellness Programs may be extensive and sometimes costly. However, there are ways for small businesses to make positive changes at little or no cost.
Worksite Health and Wellness [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs: Supporting Scientific Research and Wellness Statistics
(Adapted from The Health Promotion First Act prepared by David Anderson, Ph.D., StayWell Health Management)
Staff Member Lifestyles Impact Staff Member Health
• Approximately 40 percent of all deaths in the United States are premature (at least 900,000 deaths annually) and are due to unhealthy lifestyle choices such as tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, misuse of [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Program: Conditions for Success
1. Senior management involvement in the Worksite Health and Wellness Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps workers understand their businesses’ serious commitment to health. Workers need to perceive that their senior management, supervisors, and coworkers have positive attitudes toward health since these factors have all been associated with improved employee [...]
Benefits of Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
Introduction to Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
Risky health behaviors by workers cost a company. Changing those behaviors can save the employer money and increase the worker’s productivity.
Because work gives an worker a stable environment and support system, Worksite Health and Wellness Programs can have a great impact on reducing high-risk behaviors. This impact results in [...]
