Posted by Winston Salem | Posted in Wellness Tips, winston salem wellness | Posted on 14-08-2009
Establish a Corporation Company Health Promotion Program for Your Workers Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health & wellness program are many.
A few corporate wellbeing and health tips to get workers started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Workplace Wellness Program. How many employees run outside at lunch for a tobacco break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How frequently do the junk food-laden snack machines must be replenished? Is anyone working out or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals/objectives? The answers to these questions will give companies a better idea of the Workplace Wellness Program that’s right for them.
2. Survey staff members to evaluate their healthy lifestyle habits. Are they exercising 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 businesses because staff members don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health & wellness concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Give Employee Health Promotion Programs a tremendous kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer 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. Corporations keep their staff members hopping during the week. Give staff members a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the business dime. A corporate health and wellbeing program is an added benefit that staff members receive for working for the business!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for workers to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Promote humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for health & wellness employee “winners.” And, advocate a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.