Archive for April, 2009
Employee Wellness Programs: Low-Cost Activities That Work
Employee Wellness Initiatives that support employees and the environment that they work in have been shown to be a good return on investment. Employee Wellness Initiatives can be extensive and sometimes expensive. However, there are ways for small companies to make positive changes at little or no cost. Employee Wellness Program: Nutrition Activities Fruit and [...]
Employee 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 U.S. are premature (at least 900,000 deaths each year) and are due to unhealthy lifestyle choices such as tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, [...]
Employee Wellness Program: Conditions for Success
1. Senior management involvement in the Employee Wellness Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps employees understand their companies’ serious commitment to health. Staff Members need to perceive that their senior management, supervisors, and coworkers have positive attitudes toward health since these factors have all been associated with enhanced employee health [...]
Benefits of Employee Wellness Initiatives
Introduction to Employee Wellness Initiatives Risky health behaviors by employees cost a company. Changing those behaviors can save the employer money and raise the employee’s productivity. Because work gives an employee a stable environment and support system, Employee Wellness Initiatives can have a great impact on reducing high-risk behaviors. This impact results in lower health [...]
How to Write Employee Wellness Initiative Goals and Objectives
Why have Employee Wellness Initiative objectives? Employee Wellness Initiative objectives take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Employee Wellness Initiative objectives provide direction for selecting Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress. Writing Employee Wellness Initiative objectives Writing Employee Wellness Initiative objectives is not complicated [...]
Gathering information on employee health behaviors
If your business is interested in measuring the impact of your Employee Wellness Initiative efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your employee population. Employee Wellness Initiative Data on your employee population Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals Some health plans offer companies [...]
Assessment of worksite culture and environment
In addition to looking at the health behaviors of employees, take a good look at your business. The following questions can help you establish opportunities for your business to support and encourage healthy behaviors among employees. A strong foundation for employee health improvement 1. To what extent does the senior management in your business actively [...]