There are many benefits to establishing a Workplace Wellness Program for your business. A properly developed and well-established program can assist in employee retention, decrease absenteeism and presenteeism, improve worker well-being, create a better work environment, increase health awareness and eventually make a socioeconomic difference.
Please join us in this 30-minute session where Kathleen Collins, Health and Safety Manager at Drake International, will share her insights to establishing your own Workplace Wellness Program.
During the session you will learn:
- The business case for Workplace Wellness Programs
- How they increase productivity
- How to create a healthier workforce
- The positive impact on Benefits and Retention programs
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Establishing a Workplace Wellness Program
November 15, 2012
Presented by: Kathleen Collins, Health and Safety Manager at
Drake International
2. Agenda
• What is Workplace Wellness
• Health of our Workforce Needs Assessments
• Developing Programs and Support
• Getting Commitment and Measuring Success
3. What is Workplace Wellness?
Proactive approach to addressing a multitude of issues that
can impact our workforce and has socioeconomic impact
on a micro and macro level.
4. What is Workplace Wellness?
• 168 hours in a seven day week
• 63 hours approximate of sleep in a week
• 40 hours of work
• 65 hours of personal time
For the average person and for most we have a part-
time job commuting and that cuts into personal time)
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5. What is Workplace Wellness
Occupied Personal Hours:
• Drinks with friends and family
• Social dinners
• Eat junk food
• Partying
• Focus on others’ needs and wants
• Couch surfing
• Shopping
6. What is Workplace Wellness
Are there any negative outcomes to overexposing ourselves to activities
over the course of a year, two, or five? Let’s take a look:
• Drinking: Alcoholism, psychosocial disorders
• Social Dinner: Weight gain and obesity
• Eating Fast Food: Weight gain, obesity and hormone imbalances in mass
produced foods
• Party: Alcoholism, drug abuse, psychosocial disorders
• Looking After Others: Psychosocial disorders, mental health issues, and
stress
• Couch Surfing: Loss of range of motion, balance, and other physical
limitations and Mental Health Issues
• Shopping: Living outside your means, unwanted debt, stress
7. What is Workplace Wellness
• Consequences of some our personal-time activities will overlap in to
our work life?
• What happens if you’re dealing with negative effects of your
workplace?
Let’s think for a minute about our work life…
8. What is Workplace Wellness
Some workplace effects that we will be exposed to:
• Toxic work environment
• Micro managers
• Arguments or fighting with co-workers
• Not meeting objectives or targets
• No support
• No engagement or acknowledgement from other staff
• Exposure to health and safety hazards
9. What is Workplace Wellness
My point:
• Humans overexposed or overindulging in any activity
can create an unharmonious balance
• Results in acute, latent and chronic health side effects
10. What is Workplace Wellness?
Why is this happening?
• Overburdened health system
• Less health benefits
• Less basic insurance coverage
• Use of all sick days
• Use of all short and long leave allowances
• Absenteeism and presenteeism
11. What is Workplace Wellness?
Overburdened Health Care System Key Drivers
1. Rise in Obesity-Related Illnesses
2. Aging Workforce/Population
3. Chronic Health Conditions
12. What is Workplace Wellness
In the US Health Care Cost and Impact Associated with
Obesity:
• 117 billion
• Contributes to 112,000 preventable deaths/year
Health Care Cost (inclusive):
• United States 15.7-16% of GDP
• Canada 10-10.5% of GDP
13. What is Workplace Wellness?
Workplaces:
• Engaged workplace 40hrs/week
• Healthy balanced employees are happy employees
• Taking care
• Workplace is a new learning environment
• Social responsibility
• Healthy profitable businesses
• Healthy economy
14. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
How to Measure Workforce Health?
Workplaces will be different. Some suggestions for investigating to
obtain data:
• Size and demographics of workforce
• Use of loss time, sick days, vacation carry over
• Use of benefits programs
• Use of EAP programs
• Regional socioeconomic issues
• Survey staff to what engages them
15. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
Organize your Data:
• Develop a comprehensive needs assessment
• Actual/Direct cost savings (CEO and CFO do not understand
potential or indirect cost savings)
• Present solutions based on the companies top 3 needs for short
term or top 5 needs for long term planning.
• Benefits to workforce (ME generation engagement)
• Roles out implementation plan
• Cost of program
16. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
ROI on a good controlled program:
• Receive $1.17 to $6.04 cost per dollar of benefits spent
• $3.00 to $5.82 in lowering absenteeism cost per dollar
invested
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17. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
WARNING
Lack luster assessments may result in:
• No leadership buy-in (costs/profitability)
• No worker buy-in (me, instant gratification)
– Unhealthy Workforce
18. Developing a Program
Plan
Celebrate/ Policy/Procedure
Success / Programs
Application/ Education/
Measurement Training
19. Developing a Program
• Preparing for risk
• Understand current limitations of workforce
• You are not a doctor, leave health measuring and monitoring to the
professional
• Be inclusive of a workers needs
• Use and find channel partners that are reliable and produce results
that are balanced for the individual and the company
20. Developing Program
Workplace wellness ideas:
• Nutrition education and meal planning
• Exercise and mobility program
• Meditation and relaxation techniques and programs
• Mental health awareness programs
• Smoking cessation programs
21. Getting Commitment
• Workforce buy-in is critical
• Support in teams (not an individual sport)
• Celebrate success in a healthy way
• Measure success
• Have short and long term plans and goals
• Benchmark
22. Upcoming Webinars
Register at http://drake-webinars.com
December 5, 12pm EST
Employee Engagement
December 6, 12pm EST
Conducting Workplace Inspections
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23. HEALTH AND SAFETY Q & A
For additional questions please email:
Kathleen: kcollins@na.drakeintl.com
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24. Thank You for Attending
For Questions please contact Kathleen Collins
kcollins@na.drakeintl.com
416-216-1088
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Hinweis der Redaktion
(Poll QuestionHow many hours are you engaging in these activities 15-25,26-35,36-40,41-45,46-50,50 +HRS)Left to our own devises, are we going to take that 60hrs of our personal time.Apply it for the betterment of Ourselves? In most cases highly Doubtful….. Let’s think about some the shenanigans we indulge in: There are many of us in North America self-indulge and spend 60hrs in personal occupied in many or all of these activities. Some may wonder what’s wrong with society.
(You know who you are if you are over 40 and party like it’s your 19th birthday every weekend, I apologize if I struck a cord.)
POLL (How many hours a week are you engaging in these activites 1-10,20-30,30-40)
Result of Not having a healthy workforce has resulted in the following.