Begin a Health Promotion Program for Your Workers Today
The benefits to starting a health promotion program are many.
Several company wellness tips to get personnel started on the path to a healthier lifestyle –
1. Look around, and determine when staff members lead a healthful lifestyle before beginning an worker health promotion program.
• How many employees dash outside at lunchtime for a smoke break?
• Would a smoking cessation program help?
• How often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished?
• Is anyone exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthful living goals?
The answers to these questions will give companies a better idea of the staff member wellness program that’s right for them.
2. Survey personnel to determine their healthful 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 health promotion program benefits most organizations because workforce 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. Give health promotion programs a large kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Offer workforce free flu shots, blood pressure 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.
Organizations keep their staff hopping during the week. Give staff a chance to amp up their healthful lifestyle on the organization dime. A health promotion program is an added benefit that staff get for working for the company!
4. Incent to live- offer money for personnel to lose weight, commit to a use of tobacco cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle.
Make certain to encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellness staff member “winners.” And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring staff members who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.
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