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
โข What is Workplace Wellness
โข Health of our Workforce Needs Assessments
โข Developing Programs and Support
โข 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?
โข 168 hours in a seven day week
โข 63 hours approximate of sleep in a week
โข 40 hours of work
โข 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:
โข Drinks with friends and family
โข Social dinners
โข Eat junk food
โข Partying
โข Focus on othersโ needs and wants
โข Couch surfing
โข 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? Letโs take a look:
โข Drinking: Alcoholism, psychosocial disorders
โข Social Dinner: Weight gain and obesity
โข Eating Fast Food: Weight gain, obesity and hormone imbalances in mass
produced foods
โข Party: Alcoholism, drug abuse, psychosocial disorders
โข Looking After Others: Psychosocial disorders, mental health issues, and
stress
โข Couch Surfing: Loss of range of motion, balance, and other physical
limitations and Mental Health Issues
โข Shopping: Living outside your means, unwanted debt, stress
7. What is Workplace Wellness
โข Consequences of some our personal-time activities will overlap in to
our work life?
โข What happens if youโre dealing with negative effects of your
workplace?
Letโs think for a minute about our work lifeโฆ
8. What is Workplace Wellness
Some workplace effects that we will be exposed to:
โข Toxic work environment
โข Micro managers
โข Arguments or fighting with co-workers
โข Not meeting objectives or targets
โข No support
โข No engagement or acknowledgement from other staff
โข Exposure to health and safety hazards
9. What is Workplace Wellness
My point:
โข Humans overexposed or overindulging in any activity
can create an unharmonious balance
โข Results in acute, latent and chronic health side effects
10. What is Workplace Wellness?
Why is this happening?
โข Overburdened health system
โข Less health benefits
โข Less basic insurance coverage
โข Use of all sick days
โข Use of all short and long leave allowances
โข 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:
โข 117 billion
โข Contributes to 112,000 preventable deaths/year
Health Care Cost (inclusive):
โข United States 15.7-16% of GDP
โข Canada 10-10.5% of GDP
13. What is Workplace Wellness?
Workplaces:
โข Engaged workplace 40hrs/week
โข Healthy balanced employees are happy employees
โข Taking care
โข Workplace is a new learning environment
โข Social responsibility
โข Healthy profitable businesses
โข 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:
โข Size and demographics of workforce
โข Use of loss time, sick days, vacation carry over
โข Use of benefits programs
โข Use of EAP programs
โข Regional socioeconomic issues
โข Survey staff to what engages them
15. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
Organize your Data:
โข Develop a comprehensive needs assessment
โข Actual/Direct cost savings (CEO and CFO do not understand
potential or indirect cost savings)
โข Present solutions based on the companies top 3 needs for short
term or top 5 needs for long term planning.
โข Benefits to workforce (ME generation engagement)
โข Roles out implementation plan
โข Cost of program
16. The Health of Workforce Needs Assessment
ROI on a good controlled program:
โข Receive $1.17 to $6.04 cost per dollar of benefits spent
โข $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:
โข No leadership buy-in (costs/profitability)
โข No worker buy-in (me, instant gratification)
โ Unhealthy Workforce
18. Developing a Program
Plan
Celebrate/ Policy/Procedure
Success / Programs
Application/ Education/
Measurement Training
19. Developing a Program
โข Preparing for risk
โข Understand current limitations of workforce
โข You are not a doctor, leave health measuring and monitoring to the
professional
โข Be inclusive of a workers needs
โข 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:
โข Nutrition education and meal planning
โข Exercise and mobility program
โข Meditation and relaxation techniques and programs
โข Mental health awareness programs
โข Smoking cessation programs
21. Getting Commitment
โข Workforce buy-in is critical
โข Support in teams (not an individual sport)
โข Celebrate success in a healthy way
โข Measure success
โข Have short and long term plans and goals
โข 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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Editor's Notes
(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 Doubtfulโฆ.. Letโs 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 whatโs wrong with society.
(You know who you are if you are over 40 and party like itโs 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.