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Sample Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas
Health Screening:
• Blood checks
• Breast cancer Screening
• Skin cancer Screening
• Diabetes Screening
• Cholesterol Screening
• Eye exams
• Body-fat Screening
• Flu shots
• Posture screening, spinal assessment
• On-Site child immunizations
• Prostate cancer screenings
• Fitness Screening
• Depression Screening
Fitness Ideas:
• On-Site fitness center or exercise room
• Walking and/or running club (during lunch hour or breaks)
• On-Site bike rake
• Mind and [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Health Education Initiatives
Employee Health Services
• on-site medical services
• worksite medical examinations
• health risk testing and counselling:
• blood pressure testing,
• blood cholesterol testing,
• blood glucose testing clinics,
• thyroid testing,
• bone density testing,
• prostrate cancer testing
• promote self-exams – breasts, testicles
• medical surveillance Initiatives
• immunizations and flu shots
• Disability Management
• Active rehabilitation
• Return to work Initiatives
• Self-care Initiatives
• Disease [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Healthy Work Environment Strategies
• clearly communicated vision and mission
• clear and accurate job descriptions
• supportive appraisal system
• staff member empowerment through decision-making, pace of work and connection to business goals, (on-line tools that connect to goals such as Baxter Healthcare)
• two-way communication training
• ‘no lunch hour’ meeting rules unless it is a lunch ‘n’ learn
• rates of absence [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Mental Health and Wellness
• childcare Initiatives and information
• family planning information
• parenting classes
• Senior care Initiatives and information
• retirement planning
• personal responsibility leave
• alternative work arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing
• work-family-life transition support
• anger management and family violence
• family counselling programs
• budgeting and financial counselling
• understanding credit reports
• money safety tips – ATMS, credit cards
• advertising and [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Environmental Wellness Initiatives
• violence in the worksite
• equity in the worksite programs
• harassment policy and training
• literacy/numeracy Initiatives
• professional development and skill enhancing training
• air quality and sick building testing
• smoke-free worksite
• fire safety programs
• hazard control and WHIMS Training
• injury prevention, CPR/First Aid, emergency response Initiatives
• improved signage
• installing guard rails
• work station design, ergonomic and [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Ideas: Living Healthy Initiatives
• Provide Stress Management Programs and mental health Initiatives
• Provide substance use and abuse Initiatives
• Provide tobacco cessation and control
• Provide nutrition counselling
• Provide weight control Initiatives and counselling
• Provide promote use of food logs
• Provide posting BMI charts
• Provide juice dispensing machines
• Provide water coolers
• Provide vending machines with low-calorie snack choices
• Provide vending [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Environment Assessment
Why Complete a Employer Health and Wellness Program Environment Assessment?
The purpose of completing the assessment is to identify your jobsite’s strengths and areas in need of improvement. The assessment will lead your workgroup to recommend actions for changes to make the worksite more supportive of healthy behaviors (i.e. healthy food choices in vending machines, policies [...]
Corporate Wellness Program: Maintaining Motivation and Interest
Once you start a Employer Health and Wellness Program you will have a range of staff member participants. Some will already be very engaged in being active and eating well and your program will only reinforce and enhance their health. On the other end of the spectrum will be employees who may not engage no [...]
Why Wellness?
There are a number of reasons why Corporate Wellness Plans are beneficial.
1. Enhanced Morale – When the organizational culture begins to change as a result of your health promotion efforts, you and your workers may actually start to see and feel a new level of energy within the corporation. Ultimately, one of the most ambitious [...]
Corporate Wellness Programs: Focus on Health Education Activities
1. Have a current policy outlining the requirements and functions of a broad-based Corporate Wellness Program.
2. Have a wellness plan in place that addresses the purpose, nature, duration, resources necessary, participants in, and expected results of a Corporate Wellness Program.
3. Orient workers to the Employer Health and Wellness Program and give them copies of the [...]