Employee Health and Wellness Programs begin and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Employee Health and Wellness Programs must therefore provide the tools and resources necessary to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.
Individual health is only one part of beginning worker Employee Health and Wellness Programs. Below you’ll find some things to assist you in your efforts to develop a healthy atmosphere for you and your coworkers.
Encouraging Your Employer to Start an Employee Health and Wellness Program
This is the first step in beginning a Employee Health and Wellness Program. In recent times more and more companies are beginning to see the value of promoting and supporting the health of their workers. Partnership for Prevention, a nonprofit organization, has released a sourcebook called “Healthy Workforce 2010″ (http://www.wellnessproposals.com/pdfs/tool_kits/healthy_workforce_2010.pdf). This sourcebook is an excellent resource containing information on:
• Benefits of Employee Health and Wellness Programs
• Suggestions on where to begin
• Tools like surveys and assessment forms
These resources are for both companies and workers to guide the development and evaluate the effectiveness of their new Employee Health and Wellness Program. Make available it to your employer as a place to begin or read it yourself and present your ideas.
Participating in Employee Health and Wellness Programs
Once you have an worker Employee Health and Wellness Program established, participating fully in all aspects of the program is important. Many of us know that we need to more actively engage in Employee Health and Wellness Programs to improve our health, yet have difficulty finding and taking the time to do so. These simple steps can jumpstart your participation in an worker Employee Health and Wellness Program:
• Review the offerings that interest you and that you need for health improvement.
• Schedule time to go to the presentation or service.
• Actively following through with recommendations from the program.
• Make a decision now to improve your health. You will feel better today and tomorrow and the next day for actively moving towards wellness.
Here is a list of potential Employee Health and Wellness Programs that might be available to you at work:
• ergonomic evaluations and ergonomic training classes
• lactation rooms and classes
• prenatal education program
• quiet rooms for relaxation
• stress management programs
• fitnes centers
• chair massage
• healthy eating education
• worksite primary healthcare services
• child care facility or resources and referral service
• tobacco cessation programs parenting classes
• elder care resources and referral service
• cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose screening programs
• flu shots
• weight management and / or weight loss programs
• healthcare consumerism programs
• work/life programs
• lifestyle coaching
• onsite mobile mammography
More information to follow in my next posting about Employee Employee Health and Wellness Programs
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