Posted by Company Wellness | Posted in Company Wellness | Posted on 18-10-2008
Corporate Health Promotion Programs begin and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Corporate Health Promotion Programs must therefore provide the tools and resources needed to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.
Individual health is only one component of creating employee Corporate Health Promotion Programs. Below you’ll find some things to assist you in your efforts to develop a healthy atmosphere for you and your coworkers.
Encouraging Your Employer to Create an Company Wellness Program
This is the first step in creating a Corporate Health Promotion Program. In recent times more and more companies are creating to see the value of promoting and supporting the health of their employees. Partnership for Prevention, a nonprofit organization, has released a sourcebook called “Healthy Workforce 2010″ (http://www.wellnessproposals.com/pdfs/tool_kits/healthy_workforce_2010.pdf). This sourcebook is an excellent resource containing information on:
• Benefits of Corporate Health Promotion Programs
• Suggestions on where to begin
• Tools like surveys and evaluation forms
These resources are for both companies and employees to lead the development and assess the effectiveness of their new Corporate Health Promotion Program. Provide it to your employer as a place to begin or read it yourself and present your ideas.
Participating in Corporate Health Promotion Programs
Once you have an employee Company Wellness Program established, taking part fully in all phases of the program is important. Many of us know that we need to more actively engage in Corporate Health Promotion Programs to enhance our health, yet have difficulty finding and taking the time to do so. These simple steps can jumpstart your participation in an employee Corporate Health Promotion Program:
• Examine the offerings that interest you and that you need for health improvement.
• Schedule time to go to the presentation or service.
• Actively following through with recommendations from the program.
• Make a decision now to enhance your health. You will feel better today and tomorrow and the next day for actively moving towards wellness.
Here is a list of potential Corporate Health Promotion Programs that might be available to you at work:
• ergonomic evaluations and training classes
• lactation rooms and classes
• prenatal education
• quiet rooms for relaxation
• stress management programs
• onsite fitness centers
• onsite corporate massage
• nutritional information
• workplace primary medical care services
• child care facility or resources and referral service
• tobacco cessation programs parenting classes
• Senior care resources and referral service
• cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose screening programs
• influenza vaccinations
• weight management programs
• medical care consumerism programs
• employee assistance programs
• lifestyle coaching
• mobile mammography
More information to follow in my next posting about Employee Corporate Health Promotion Programs