Archive for the ‘Health and Wellness Program’ Category
Employee Wellness Ideas: Wellness Screenings
Job Site wellness screenings can take a variety of forms. Common evaluation components may include:
• Blood Pressure (BP) and pulse rate.
• Cholesterol (typically a finger-stick total cholesterol test, either fasting or non-fasting).
• Blood glucose (diabetes screening).
• Height and weight.
• Percent body fat and/or BMI (body mass index).
• Fitness level.
• Bone Mineral Density(BMD).
• Posture assessment.
Considerations when [...]
Make safety a key concern when creating physical exercise in your workplace. An accident or injury will not “sell” the program and may end up costing the business. This section will assist you in taking the necessary steps to avert an accident or injury.
Points to Consider
Using Certified Professionals
Hire professionally certified instructors to lead fitness classes (whether on or offsite) or to run workplace lunch and learn sessions. It’s also prudent to ask the instructor for references.
When you hire instructors, be sure that your insurance protects both the instructor and your business.
Risk Management
Whether we like it or not, liability [...]
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Keys to Success
To make a difference in the lives of your fellow employees, you first need to grasp that getting active is not simply a matter of choice. Some things are within our individual control, but others are shaped by the people and circumstances in which we live and work.
It‘s Easier to Be Active When…
• We know [...]
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Types of Assessment
The type of evaluation you choose depends on when you do it and the kind of information you gather.
This section outlines when to use three types: formative, process and summative evaluations.
During the Development Stage
Use formative evaluations in the planning stages to see that your program is based on solid information. These evaluations also help you [...]
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Establishing an Action Plan
Before initiating your Workplace Physical Activity Program, summarize the information you’ve collected and plan your next steps.
At this point, you have
• gained reinforcement from management for the Workplace Physical Activity Program
• formed an Employee Wellness Committee
• assessed what is possible in your workplace
• found out what employees want and need in a Workplace Physical Activity [...]
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Committees and Opportunities
Workplace Physical Activity Programs: Forming an Employee Committee
Although reinforcement from the top is vital to a successful initiative, reinforcement from other employees is also significant.
Once you get the go-ahead from management, identify others who are interested in the project and form a Employee Wellness Committee to help determine the next steps. Depending on the size [...]
Healthy Emails / Wellness Emails
These are brief informational “Health Tips” in an e-mail format on many different health-related topics. You have the potential to appoint someone within your business to find specific topics on the Internet from sites that are in the public domain or topics can be purchased from corporations. Some qualified sources include:
• Hope Health
• Sound Ideas, [...]
Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs
Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs are informational sessions planned and organized by you to meet specific objectives and goals. Decide on a topic and select a speaker. Select a site for the “Lunch and Learn” session, usually a lunchroom or break room. Depending on your budget and objectives, employees have the potential to [...]
Job Site Wellness Ideas
Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your workplace is a fun and exciting way to raise awareness among employees about the effect of beginning and sustaining an exercise program. It is a concentrated effort in which to engage them in physical exercise for a specific time period that, hopefully, will help them begin a healthy [...]
Workplace Health and Wellness
Create a Company Employee Wellness for Your Workers Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellness program are abounding.
A few corporate health and 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 Employee Wellness . How many [...]
