Today’s environment makes it extremely easy to neglect physical activity. Labor-saving technology, long commutes by car or bus, and hours spent on the computer for both work and play drain us of energy and make it even harder to find time in our busy schedules to get up and move. This white paper presents practical strategies for increasing physical activity in the workplace and decreasing employer spend on health care and productivity losses.
Helping your workforce to increase their daily physical activity will not only improve their health, but also their concentration and productivity. This Worksite Walkability Tool will walk you through questions that will help you determine the safety, ease, and ambience of areas surrounding your worksite that can contribute to whether your employees feel comfortable and safe walking to and from your building.
This Healthy Worksite Check-Up Tool will walk you through six areas of worksite health: Health Promotions, Tobacco Use, Food, Physical Activity, Stress and Corporate Culture. Use this tool to evaluate the depth and breadth of the initiatives your organization already has in place, and to help you identify the areas that may need improvement.
Providing an environment that teaches, promotes and supports healthy behaviors is one of the best things you can to to increase energy and productivity among your employees. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to conduct a healthy worksite evaluation, which can help you to appraise your current worksite environment. Feel free to utilize our Healthy Worksite Check-Up Tool, also found here in the Clear Insights White Paper section.
Choosing to take the stairs is a quick and easy way for employees to increase their physical activity during their work day. Unfortunately, many stairwells are perceived to be at best uninviting and at worst unsafe.This thought starter offers expert advice on how to create a positive stairwell environment in order to encourage your employees to spend more time climbing stairs and less time waiting for the elevator.
An Employee Advisory Board (EAB), also known as a worksite wellness committee, is a group of employees that can help your organization generate excitement around healthy behaviors and make the decisions necessary to provide a healthy worksite for your employees. This thought starter will show you how to establish an effective EAB.
Cheap and convenient, vending machines are often relied upon by employees for a quick energy boost, often between meals. Unfortunately, the majority of vending machines offer unhealthy drinks and snacks that ultimately drain energy. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to revamp your organization's vending machines to help make healthy choices easier for your workforce.
Social support has been proven to increase the likelihood of positive behavior change, and creating a worksite walking club is an easy way to develop a support network for employees who want to incorporate more physical activity into their work day. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to establish a walking club your employees will be excited about.
As an employer who offers health coverage to your employees, it is in your best interest to offer support in the identification and prevention of disease and disability. This thought starter presents expert advice on how to offer onsite health screenings and providing health and safety education to your employees so you can provide them with the knowledge they need to prevent injuries and worsening health conditions or finally make that call to see the doctor.
Free & Clear's latest Clear Insights white paper, "Extreme Makeover: HR Edition, Strategies for Reducing Employee Stress in the Workplace," will show you practical strategies for improving your organization’s stress environment, so you can help your employees reduce their stress and be the healthiest they can be.
One of the easiest things you can do to improve nutrition is to increase your daily consumption of fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, it is often difficult for people to access fresh produce, especially during the workday and in urban environments. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to host an onsite farmer’s market at your organization, so you can build employee awareness of the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables and increase employee access to fresh produce.
Whether it's the festive mood or pressure from family and friends, people often eat more than they intend to over the holidays; as coworkers celebrate with each other and share favorite recipes, the workplace can become full of delicious pitfalls. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to support your employees during the holidays by providing them with an environment that promotes healthy options for holiday parties and gatherings.
Many people do not take the time to plan for and prepare nutritious, home-cooked meals during the week; therefore many of your employees find themselves eating out each day at lunchtime. If your organization offers a cafeteria to employees, you have the opportunity to encourage and support them in healthy food decisions every day. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to develop cafeteria guidelines to ensure that your staff has easy access to healthy food.
Providing food for meetings and catered events is a thoughtful way to boost morale for your employees, vendors and clients, yet many times the food that is offered is unhealthy, energy-draining and often the only choice for meeting attendees who would otherwise make healthier choices. This thought starter offers expert advice on how to promote healthy meetings an events by providing nutritious alternatives to the traditionally high-calorie catered fare.
Today’s environment makes it difficult for your employees to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Investing in a healthy worksite environment and implementing strategies that encourage your employees to engage in healthy behaviors will allow you to improve the overall health and productivity of your workforce -- and improve your bottom line. Read this white paper for Free & Clear's best practices.
Despite a $40 billion weight-loss industry, present attempts to curb the obesity epidemic have been unsuccessful. The "solutions," mostly popular diets or unproven over-the-counter dietary supplements, are focused on short-term weight loss goals rather than life-long health. This white paper illustrates how a combination of a comprehensive, long-term weight management program and a healthy worksite environment can prepare individuals for a lifetime of healthy behaviors.
Free & Clear has found that employers successfully increase participation in wellness programs when they reward healthy behaviors throughout the course of the program rather than focusing on the end result. By implementing an approach that includes a comprehensive program supported by a positive environment, led by a team that anticipates the future, you will find that offering incentives can promote positive behavior change, positively impact your bottom line and improve employee relations.
Evidence has shown that smoke-free policies not only clear the air of secondhand smoke harmful to all employees, but are also associated with reduced daily cigarette consumption and possibly with increased tobacco cessation among smokers. This white paper provides a step-by-step guide on how to successfully implement a smoke-free initiative.
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