Workplace Wellness
Information and resources to help employers improve the health of their workforce.
Identify key needs and expectations
Your employees will want to know where they stand on an individual basis, in a way that safeguards their private health data. Options to help employees understand their risks are health risk assessments and screenings.
From your perspective as an employer, health risk assessments and screenings also give you important data on demographics and health risk factors. Additional ways for employers to gather data include:
- Employee needs and interests survey
- Focus groups
- Policy and environment survey
- Management survey
One tool that can help you benchmark the overall health of your company and employees is Fit Together’s Workplace Wellness Toolkit. The toolkit includes an organization-specific health risk assessment can help identify your wellness policy’s strength and weaknesses, as well as make personalized recommendations on how to improve your company’s wellness program and employee health.
This is going to be a new experience for everyone, so communication is key. Plan a formal introduction for your workplace wellness program, and consider policy statements that underscore its importance. Then keep the channels open once you’ve started: The best-planned program won’t help if your employees don’t know about it or don’t understand how to participate.