Implement Worksite Wellness
Worksite Wellness Initiative:
Making healthy choices easier leads to a healthy and productive staff. We can help with all aspects of wellness -- from policy development to education.
Worksite Wellness Program adhere to the following guidelines:
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Recognize that a healthy workplace is good for business as well as for individual employees. Benefits include:
- Control increasing health care costs
- Reduce absenteeism
- Improve productivity
- Reduce injuries
- Improve employee morale and retention
- Create a wellness policy, systems, and an environment that encourages employees to be active, make healthy food choices, and take preventative measures to control their health.
- Assemble a wellness committee with identified goals, objectives, and activities to encourage healthy behaviors at the workplace, advocate for policy change, and create health-friendly work environments.
The AHH Community Coalition will provide:
- Information and education for organization owners, managers, and staff around wellness guidelines, practices, and policies.
- Assistance with updating wellness policies and procedures.
- Signs, posters, handouts, and/or other educational materials to promote health and nutrition.
- Recognition through social and traditional media.
Organizations wishing to implement this initiative will:
- Review and/or create wellness guidelines, practices, and/or policies to make the healthy choice the easy choice for their staff and community members with which they may engage.
- Provide education for managers and staff as needed.
- Display signs, posters, handouts, and/or other educational materials to promote health and nutrition in prominent locations.
- Update wellness guidelines and policies to reflect current wellness practices.
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Last updated July 31, 2019