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1. CEO and senior management support for worksite wellness

A case for worksite wellness has been clearly articulated.

A Worksite Wellness champion has been appointed.

2. Establish a Workplace Wellness Team

Seek membership from all departments as well as management and support staff. The composition of the wellness team should reflect the diversity of the em-ployer’s workforce.

3. Collect data to inform employer wellness efforts

Gather demographic data, such as age, gender, etc on your workforce.

Contact your health insurance provider and broker to determine what support they may provide you.

Conduct a workplace audit to determine current and past efforts taken to support employee wellness.

Conduct an employee interest survey to determine employee needs and interests.

Ask employees to complete a confidential Health Risk Assessment to determine to gather information about your employee population.

Examine existing company data such as use of sick leave, health insurance claims data, disability insurance claims, worker’s compensation claims, etc.

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Collect de-identified employee biomet-ric screenings such as blood pressure, body mass index, etc.

4. Develop an operating plan

Prepare vision statement.

Establish goals that describe the desired outcome of the program.

Identify objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time specific.

Include an implementation timeline with detailed information concerning when wellness activities will occur and individual responsible for executing the plan.

Marketing or Communication Plan that describes methods that will be used to inform employees about the plan.

Detailed Budget describing the revenue needed to execute the plan.

Measurement and Evaluation Plan that describes how success will be measured.

Review legal implications of proposed workplace wellness program with legal attorney to insure compliance with federal (ADA, HIPAA, ADEA, NLRA) and state laws.

Describe how the wellness program fits into the company’s health benefit and compensation strategy as well as busi-ness goals.

5. Chose Appropriate interventions

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Choose appropriate health and wellness interventions that will provide for maxi-mum participation all employees.

6. Create a supportive environment for em-ployees in their efforts to lead healthier lifestyles

Revise personnel policies and procedures if needed.

Offer rewards and incentives.

Make renovations to the worksite to pro-vide a supportive environment (e.g. stair-case renovation to support walking pro-gram).

7. Carefully Evaluate Outcomes

Evaluate outcomes for each intervention to determine which interventions are ef-fective and provide the business case for continuing.

SMOKING CESSATION

Policy

Develop and implement a written smok-ing and tobacco-free workplace policy that addresses tobacco use in worksite buildings, on the worksite grounds, as well as riding in company vehicles.

Supportive environment

Ban tobacco vending machines, tobacco promotions, tobacco promotional offers, or tobacco prizes from the worksite.

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Post “tobacco free worksite” signage indicating that your site is a tobacco free workplace.

Behavior Change Strategies

Provide incentives and/or competitions to increase the rate of tobacco cessation in conjunction with other interventions.

Upon joining the program

At midpoint

Upon completion of program

Promote free governmental resources for smoking cessation.

Provide tobacco cessation programs on site or access to programs at off-site lo-cations (e.g. hospitals) or online.

Provide educational materials on to-bacco use cessation in variety of formats (e.g. brochures, posters, pamphlets and company website).

Reinforce tobacco cessation message by recognizing health observances that are linked directly or indirectly to smoking cessation (e.g. The Great American Smoke out, Kick Butts Day, New Year’s Day).

Provide health insurance benefits that cover evidence based tobacco cessation treatments

Measure outcomes

Evaluate outcomes for each intervention to determine which interventions are effective and provide the business case for continuing.

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EAT SMART

Policy

Healthy food and beverages policy at company sponsored meetings and events.

Vending machine guidelines requiring healthy choices.

Policy accommodating breast feeding employees.

Policy for on-site cafeterias to adopt healthy cooking practices and to offer healthy food and beverage options.


Healthy food preparation practices are used at on site cafeterias and venues.

Healthy portion sizes are used at on-site cafeterias and venues.

Provide equipment, facilities to support employees who bring meals from home.

Refrigerator

Microwave

Stove

Healthy food and beverages offered

Vending machines

On-site cafeterias

Meetings and events

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Lactation rooms are provided for breast-feeding employees.

Farmers’ markets, community gardens, work-site gardens.

Senior management model healthy eating practices and regularly communicate on need to make healthy eating and drinking choices.

Employees are provided an opportunity to provide feedback.


Provide employees with educational ma-terials on nutrition in a variety of formats.

Offer prepared “ready to cook” healthy meals for pick-up, on-site cooking classes or demonstrations with a registered dieti-cian to teach employees about healthy cooking procedures, portion size, and healthy ingredients to use in preparing meals.

Provide access to on-line nutritional edu-cation programs.

Offer Weight Watchers type programs at work.

Provide incentives to encourage con-sumption of healthy foods.

Adopt a bodega near the worksite.

Hold fruits and vegetable consumption campaigns.

Purchase health insurance benefits that cover nu-tritional and dietary counseling

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Measure outcomes

Evaluate outcomes for each interven-tion to determine which interventions are effective and provide the business case for continuing.

Policy

Implement alternate work schedule

Policy supporting active commuting

Policy supportive of physical activity


Modify the worksite to encourage in-creased physical activity.

Accessible fitness center

Bicycle racks

Carpool/vanpool

Shuttle service to/from worksite

Changing room and showers in-cluding gender neutral changing room and restrooms

Subsidize off-site fitness membership

Fitness breaks offered throughout day

Map out walking routes close to the worksite and form walking clubs

Modify worksite stairwells and post motivational signs to encourage em-ployers to take the stairs

MOVE MORE

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Senior leadership regularly model healthy be-haviors and communicate on importance of physical activity.

Opportunity provided for employee feedback


Group classes are offered

Sessions with personal trainers offered

Walking clubs

Offer ridesharing programs

Encourage use of ridesharing and public trans-portation through incentive programs

Support employees who compete in special events that involve physical activity (e.g. races, community fun runs)

Provide incentives or challenges to increase physical activity

Provide information on the benefits of physi-cal activity information in a variety of formats

Purchase health benefits that cover counseling to pro-mote physical activity

Measure outcomes

Evaluate outcomes for each intervention to determine which interventions are effective and provide the business case for continuing.

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ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE

Policy

Alcohol and drug free workplace pol-icy


Ban alcohol promotional offers or prizes from the worksite.

Post “alcohol and drug free worksite” signage.


Establish an Employee Assistance Pro-gram.

Provide educational information on alcohol and substance abuse in a number of different formats.

Provide on-site behavioral counseling services for employees and their de-pendents or access to an off-site facil-ity.

Participate in community efforts to prevent alcohol and substance abuse.

Provide on-site drug and alcohol edu-cational sessions to supervisors and employees to counteract “enabling” behaviors and to enhance under-standing of this disease.

Purchase health benefits that cover drug and alcohol cessation treatments and services

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Measure outcomes

Evaluate outcomes for each inter-vention to determine which inter-ventions are effective and provide the business case for continuing.

Sources: WELCOA, www.welcoa.org; Northern California Center for Well-Being, www.norcalwellbeing.org/; CDC, www.cdc.gov

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