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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