Begin a Wellness Program for Your Staff Members Today
The benefits to starting a health promotion program are many.
Several company health promotion tips to get personnel began on the path to a healthier lifestyle -
1. Look around, and determine if staff members lead a healthful lifestyle before beginning an employee wellness program.
o Exactly how many staff dash outside during lunchtime for a smoke break?
o Would a use of tobacco cessation program help?
o Exactly how often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished?
o Is whoever exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthful living goals?
The answers to these questions will give businesses a better idea of the staff member wellness program that is right for them.
2. Survey staff members to determine their healthful lifestyle habits.
o Are they exercising regularly?
o Eat three square meals a day?
Have regular physicals? Really? Then what planet are they on?
Because we would love to visit! A health promotion program benefits most organizations because workers don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of wellness concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.
3. Provide health promotion programs a big kick-off with a healthful living “fair.” Make available staff members free flu shots, blood pressure (BP) checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, smoking cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from.
Corporations keep their workers hopping during the week. Give workers a chance to amp up their healthful lifestyle on the corporation dime. A health promotion program is an added benefit that workers get for working for the company!
4. Incent to live- offer cash money for employees to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle.
Make sure to encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness employee “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.