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Worksite Wellness Toolkit

Every employer wants healthy and happy employees. Employees who are healthy are more productive, use health insurance appropriately, take less sick time, and feel good about themselves and their work. While the "bottom line" responsibility for taking care of health rests with the employee, the employer can choose to support employee wellness. This can be done by implementing policy changes within the company and starting an on-site wellness program.

YOU, the employer, can create a workplace that encourages a healthy lifestyle and helps employees acquire and maintain healthy habits. This toolkit provides the steps you need to reach these goals.

The Worksite Wellness Toolkit will help:

• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your wellness policies
• Develop an action plan to implement or improve a worksite wellness program
• Set up programs and policies that give you a return on your investment

Get Started - Use the following steps as a guide to implement wellness policies and/or programs. The Worksite Wellness Program Checklist (PDF: 41kB) will help you set up a reasonable timeline to follow for developintg a worksite wellness program:

1. The Wellness Team
2. Assessment
3. Wellness Goals & Objectives
4. Policy Design
5. Program Design
6. Employee Buy-in
7. Policy Implementation
8. Program Implementation
9. Evaluation & Mentoring
10. The Financial Benefits
11. Wellness Resources

The Healthy Business Recognition Program is a voluntary certification program that recognizes employers for implementing practical employee wellness programs, and is aimed at using workforce wellness to help attract and retain employees in local firms, and also enhance productivity through reduced absences. Click here to become recognized as a healthy business