The Importance Of Worksite Wellness In The Workplace

Be proactive and provide your employees with the benefits they need to stay healthy. It will not only improve the quality of work your employees produce, but office morale will be much higher as well.

The aim of this case based study, is to Promote Health and behaviour changes within the work place,

As the new healthcare law takes effect insurance premiums are expected to rise. On average for the last six years insurances premiums have gone up six percent per year. The average annual cost that employers pay to cover their employees is around $10,000 for each employee. Usually employees are responsible for 20 percent that total or $2000. At this time the new law has done

According to workers, organizations with significant wellness programs remain a minority. Demographic evidence suggests that the current laissez-faire attitudes toward workplace wellness found in many organizations will soon need to change. It's important to understand those needs to tailor a wellness program to the organization and its people. To be successful, wellness programs must be employee driven and management supported. (Walker, 2004)

To help offset the increasing health care costs that our society faces today, employers are focusing more on adopting good health practices through promotion and disease prevention strategies, often referred to as workplace wellness program. Disease prevention programs have two stages of prevention. The first is to prevent the onset of diseases or to diagnose, where the focus is on addressing the health-related behaviors and risk factor such as encouraging people to consume a healthier diet. The second stage is to treat diseases at an early stage before complications occur. This translates to promoting medication adherence for patients with asthma and other diseases

Employers have created wellness programs to tackle the unhealthy workforce issue that hampers productivity and acts as an obstacle to produce efficient results in respective industries. Health seminars, sports league games, sponsored exercises, gym facilities and health screenings are among the types of wellness programs employers have often used to stimulate a healthy workforce (Investopedia). In addition, wellness programs also include financial incentives in the form of insurance subsidies and penalties for employees that do not complete a certain requisite set forth by the employer. However, many employers are now very concerned about implementing wellness programs in their respective companies right after the Affordable

Through helping workers prevention injuries and illnesses, change their behaviour patterns and choose healthier ways of living, Wellness Solutions will provide companies with lower health

You're concerned about your employees' health and wellness. It's one of the many reasons you've been considering an office wellness program. You've read up on the benefits of these programs, and you're convinced it could do your employees and your business a world of good.

Facilitating a Health and Wellness Program in the workplace is the greatest assessment an employer can make because it would be an investment in their most valuable asset, the employees. With there being more urgency today than ever before, America is under pressure to be productive even as healthcare costs proceed to rise and bombard the most important resource, the employees. Research and data show:

Workplace Wellness Programs (WWP) are those programs set-up by employers to help their employees improve their health and wellbeing. These programs encourage individual behavior change, in addition to helping reduce stressors in the workplace that can have negative effects on health behaviors (Andersen et al., 2015). Key features of wellness programs are health-risk assessments and screenings for high blood pressure and cholesterol; behavior modification programs, such as tobacco cessation, weight management, and exercise; health education, including classes or referrals to online sites for health advice; and changes in the work environment or provision of special benefits to encourage

This study began with a database search to locate all the current and relevant articles about workplace-based health promotion. A total of nine articles from the last ten years have been assessed for relevance for the study.

Workplace health and protection exist as well. Companies and businesses develop different programs to try to promote positive health. Two common categories exist and these are health promotion and health protection. The goal is to “protect workers from occupational injury and illness ranging from basic safety training to the use of protective gear, work organization, and safety enhancing modification” that better the workplace. By doing this,

Wellness programs can vary greatly in options and can include a wide, narrow or combination of employee participants within the public and private sectors. The most prevalent factors determining the offering of a wellness program are the organizational size (number of employees) and financial resources. It is estimated that one third of FT employers with 50-100 workers have a wellness program in place as opposed to four fifths of FT employers with more than 1000 workers. Smaller organizations without a program were financially incapable to provide one and larger organizations cited lack of employee interest. (RAND Corporation, 2014) The primary difference between public and private organizations, especially larger ones, are the financial resources

There are many benefits to having a strong Wellness Program in the workplace. We can all go round and round as far as what makes the most sense, and the importance of ROI and saving the company money. However, I feel we lose really what is truly important. Our employees their overall health and the importance of work/life balance. Somewhere down the line companies lost this process. If it became about company survival, making money and keeping their heads above water. They soon found while the company may still be surviving, their employees were sinking. This is how and where workplace wellness programs came into play. In the abstract, Do Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs Work? They found that they really do. The point I want to get across is it wasn’t just about the ROI where they saw the positive numbers it was about the positive health outcomes as well.

Health in the working community is the ability to physically function and engage in their work, and maintain optimal health to participate in their off – work activities at home, school, and play (Greiner, 2014). A high – level wellness continuum that promotes a vital workforce requires employees to work safely and actively participate in healthy lifestyles to decrease risks of illnesses, injuries, disease, and disability (Greiner, 2014). In contrast, a low – level wellness continuum transpires when employees work and live in poor environmental conditions and engage in risky behaviors (Greiner, 2014). Health wellness programs at the workplace that provide health risks assessments, promote healthy behaviors and improved lifestyle management