Wellness Programs : Wellness Programs – Getting Employees Active.
• Be certain that your building’s stairwells are clean, attractive and safe, and post signs encouraging workers to use the stairs.
• Start a wellness newsletter or intranet.
• Promote the Activity Tracker and encourage staff members to track their physical activity every week.
• be creative, and make the most of the workspace you have. for example, mark off a safe walking path inside or around the building.
You may also set up a training circuit, highlighting features of the worksite such as stairs.
• Give exercise opportunities at different times to accommodate night-, shift-, and part-time employees.
• For personnel in remote or satellite offices, offer equal access to key health promotion programs via the intranet. Adapt challenges to suit their environment and take benefit of local facilities and resources.
• Make exercise available to staff with special needs. Adapt information and activities for any staff who are visually impaired or physically disabled in addition to for individuals who speak English as a second language.
• Educate staff members about physical activity using information from reputable sources such as the Alberta Center for Active Living.
• Give facilities that invite onsite exercise. Possibilities include bicycle racks, an exercise room, change rooms with lockers and showers, and safe and attractive grounds for walking.
• Hold walking meetings.
• Be sure to encourage employees to walk to peers’ offices instead of e-mailing or phoning.
• Be sure to set up a stretching room. This low-cost initiative requires only a room, stretching mats, stability balls and medicine balls. Put up posters that show stretches and exercises.
• Give incentives such as shoe bags, ball caps, T-shirts or water bottles to reward staff participation.
• Loan out pedometers for three months, so that workers can figure out how many steps they generally take and how much activity they need to add to get basic health benefits.
• Make space for personnel to plant and maintain a flowerbed or garden at the workplace. Use any resulting produce for meetings and potluck lunches or donate it to charity.
• Plan a workplace wellness fair.
• Hire a certified fitness professional to design and manage an on-site exercise facility.
• Supply staff members with active wear that shows off the business logo.