Company Health and Wellness : Workplace Health and Wellness

Create a Organization Corporate Wellness Program for Your Workers Today

The advantages to starting a workplace health & wellness program are many.

A few corporate wellbeing and health tips to get staff members started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:

1. Look around, and determine if workers lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Corporate Wellness Program. How many workers run outside at lunch for a tobacco break? Would a tobacco cessation program help? How frequently do the junk food-laden snack machines must be replenished? Is anyone working out or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals and objectives? The answers to these questions will give companies a clearer idea of the Corporate Wellness Program that’s right for them.

2. Survey employees to determine their healthy 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 corporate wellness program benefits most organizations because employees don’t have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellbeing problems at work or when they leave the office to go home.

3. Give Corporate Wellness Programs a large kick-off with a healthy living “fair.” Provide staff members no cost flu shots, Blood Pressure checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, smoking cessation programs and no cost mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there’s plenty more where this came from. Businesses keep their staff members hopping during the week. Give staff members a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the employer dime. A corporate wellness and health program is an additional benefit that staff members receive for working for the employer!

4. Incent to live- offer cash money for workers to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Encourage humankind’s innate competitive nature by offering prizes for wellbeing and health employee “winners.” And, advocate a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring workers who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.