Archive for November, 2008
Worksite Wellness Program: Conditions for Success
1. Senior management involvement in the Worksite Wellness Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps workers understand their corporations’ serious commitment to health. Workers need to perceive that their senior management, supervisors, and coworkers have positive attitudes toward health since these factors have all been associated with improved employee health [...]
Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs
Introduction to Worksite Wellness Programs
Risky health behaviors by workers cost a company. Changing those behaviors can save the employer money and raise the worker’s productivity.
Because work gives an worker a stable setting and support system, Worksite Wellness Programs can have a great impact on reducing high-risk behaviors. This impact results in decrease health claims cost, [...]
How to Write Worksite Wellness Program Goals and Objectives
Why have Worksite Wellness Program goals?
Worksite Wellness Program goals take your business’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Worksite Wellness Program goals provide direction for determining Strategies and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Worksite Wellness Program goals
Writing Worksite Wellness Program goals is not complicated or difficult. It [...]
Collecting information on worker health behaviors
If your business is interested in measuring the impact of your Worksite Wellness Program efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your worker population.
Worksite Wellness Program Data on your worker population
Health Risk Assessments
Some health plans offer corporations free internet-based health risk assessments (HRA), complete [...]
Assessment of worksite culture and environment
In addition to looking at the health behaviors of workers, take a good look at your business. The following questions can help you identify opportunities for your business to support and encourage healthy behaviors among workers.
A strong foundation for employee health improvement
1. To what extent does the senior management in your business actively and visibly [...]