Communicating the importance of health and safety to your employees is vital to building a positive culture.
Simple ways to implement wellness promotion into your facility!
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Start a Wellness Bulletin Board: Create a wellness board at your facility to keep wellness top of mind. Some ideas for your wellness board are healthy recipes, community events, monthly jokes, and stretches.
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Create a Wellness committee: The purpose of having a Wellness committee is to plan and implement strategies that will help the organization's employees to be more aware, motivated, and educated in making decisions to increase their wellbeing.
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Have healthy snack options in the vending machine: For example, replace pop with water and 100% fruit juices.
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Offer healthy snacks and water at meetings: For example, offer fruit and vegetables at team meetings.
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Teach your employees stretches: Take some time to stretch before starting the job; also stretch during break periods to relieve strain.
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Wellness Talks: Mental Health needs to be continually spoken about with your employees. Communicating the importance of health and safety to your employees is vital to building a positive culture.
Why invest in a healthy workplace
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Cost Savings due to Disability and Absenteeism
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Operational Success
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Recruitment and Retention
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Conflict Reduction
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Operational Success
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Present Employees