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Establishing a Company Exercise Team From Nine-To-Five
People spend an abundance of time at their place of employment, and work environments are full of stress. Downsizing, mergers, more manufacturing specifications and extended hours take their toll on employee health.
It can be measured in growing absenteeism and more health costs. It is time to reverse the trend. [...]
It is simple for employees to ignore the facts about their health when they are involved in just getting the job done. One of the primary rewards of Employee Wellness is they bring health to the forefront of business awareness.
Obesity is a primary topic and getting worse every day. But it is just one topic [...]
Companies are expected to be responsible in every way. They protect the environment, contribute to local area projects and pay taxes. They also care about the health of their employees.
One of the advantages of wellness programs is they give employees every opportunity to improve their quality of life both at their place of employment and [...]
Information to evaluate your program comes from routinely collected evaluation and follow-up data of your program that look at process and outcomes of your program.
The Worker Health Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow simple assessment of process and outcome results at any point in time.
Process Assessment
Process evaluation looks at [...]
The keys to a successful wellness program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment regimens, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse. Regualr outreach and follow-up procedures support employees with a safety net which keeps them involved in the program and prevents treatment dropout and relapse.
Counselors should [...]
The menu approach offers employees a range of options to support lifestyle changes. It allows people to choose the kind of help that suits their schedules and preferences.
The four basic types of programs include:
• Classes
• Minigroups
• Guided self help
• Individual counseling
Classes
Classes (8 or more) can be an effective means of providing education and social reinforcement [...]
The educational program should include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and business stressors should be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors should be presented. At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to cope with stressors; learning techniques to minimize [...]
A diet education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as crucial.
Educational sessions and materials should include the following information:
• The relationship of diet and chronic diseases
• Improving eating patterns
• Relationship of diet and proper weight maintenance
• Exercise
• Stress
• Blood Pressure (BP)
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes and other chronic diseases.
• Nutritionally accurate information [...]
It is recommended that tobacco cessation programs subscribe to the Code Of Practice for Smoking Cessation Programs.
Smoking cessation programs should be multi-component with a focus on skills to build positive voluntary behavior change practices. Useful techniques include implementing reasons for quitting, understanding the smoking habit, various techniques for stopping and remaining a non-smoker, overcoming the [...]
Participatory exercise programs should include education on benefits of regular exercise and risks of a sedentary lifestyle, its effect on cardiovascular health and diseases, its relationship with weight control and stress management, and aerobic exercise options. Discussion and practice of safe principles of exercise – warm up, cool down, frequency, intensity, duration, flexibility and strength [...]
