Corporate Wellness Programs – Employee Wellness Programs
The companies with the most cost-efficient heath programs are the ones that streamline the services staff members receive for both their physical and mental health.
As a long-term goal, having your general health plan, staff member assistance program (EAP) and health promotion program communicating regularly with one another about employees’ treatments is the single best way [...]
Trying to do more with less money? Here are three proven ways to align the dollars and cents of a wellness program in your budget.
Common thread – the way you prepare – and control – your budget for a wellness program is critical to its success.
1. Top-down wellness budget
Depending on the size of your business [...]
Given the enormous growth of wellness programs over the last two years, it was inevitable resistance would creep up among watchdog groups.
In Washington, lobbyists have spearheaded a push for Congress, the DOL and IRS to crack down on “punitive” wellness programs.
Especially, the groups seek to limit health promotion programs in which employees’ share of [...]
Health Screening:
• Blood checks
• Breast cancer Screening
• Skin cancer Screening
• Diabetes Screening
• Cholesterol Screening
• Eye exams
• Body-fat Screening
• Flu shots
• Posture screening, spinal analysis
• On-site child immunizations
• Prostate cancer screenings
• Fitness Screening
• Depression Screening
Fitness Activities:
• On-site fitness center or exercise room
• Walking and/or running club (during lunch hour or breaks)
• Bike rack on premises (so [...]
Employee Health Services
• access to an EAP
• on-site medical services
• workplace medical examinations
• health risk screening and counselling:
§ blood pressure,
§ blood cholesterol ,
§ blood glucose clinics,
§ thyroid.
§ bone density screening,
§ prostrate
• promote self-exams – breasts, testicles
• medical surveillance Initiatives
• immunizations and flu vaccinations
• disability case management
• active rehabilitation
• return to [...]
clearly communicated vision and mission
clear and accurate job descriptions
supportive appraisal system
worker empowerment through decision-making, pace of work and connection to corporate goals, (on-line tools that connect to goals such as Baxter Healthcare)
two-way communication training
‘no lunch hour’ meeting rules unless it is a lunch ‘n’ learn
rates of absence and [...]
• childcare Initiatives and information
• family planning information
• parenting classes
• elder care Initiatives and information
• retirement planning
• personal responsibility leave
• alternative work arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing
• work-family-life transition support
• anger management and family violence
• family counselling initiatives
• budgeting and financial counselling
• understanding credit reports
• money safety tips – ATMS, credit cards
• advertising [...]
• violence in the workplace
• equity in the workplace initiatives
• harassment policy and training
• literacy/numeracy Initiatives
• professional development and skill enhancing training
• air quality and sick building testing
• smoke-free workplace
• fire safety initiatives
• hazard control and WHIMS Training
• injury prevention, CPR/First Aid, emergency response Initiatives
• improved signage
• installing guard rails
• work station design, ergonomic [...]
Why Complete a Corporate Wellness Program Environment Assessment?
The purpose of completing the assessment is to identify your worksite’s strengths and areas in need of improvement. The assessment will lead your workgroup to recommend actions for changes to make the worksite more supportive of healthy behaviors (i.e. healthy food choices in vending machines, policies to enforce [...]
Once you start a program you will have a range of worker members. Some will already be very engaged in being active and eating well and your program will only reinforce and enhance their health. On the other end of the spectrum will be employees who may not engage no matter what you do. The [...]
