A Workplace Health & Wellness Evaluation is a process of gathering information about the factors that support and/or hinder the health of employees at a particular workplace and identifying potential opportunities to improve or address them. It is a necessary first step before goals are developed, resources allocated, strategies adopted and interventions implemented, employees participate, and outcomes are measured.
As companies increasingly face rising health costs and competition, comprehensive workplace health programs are becoming more widely used as a strategy for impacting employee health and productivity and, in turn, corporate bottom lines.
However, each company and its employees is unique and the strategies used to address employee health will vary from company to company based on the resources available, needs and interests of management and employees, and health issues that are priorities.
A Workplace Health & Wellness Evaluation helps to identify the current picture of health at a company as well as ways to improve it that can potentially increase productivity, decrease absenteeism, and control health care costs for both employees and the organization as a whole.
Workplace Health & Wellness Evaluation involves learning about a workplace and the health of its employees. Employee health is determined by a complex set of interactions between the individual and their social, cultural, and physical environments and can be influenced in many ways.
Overall, a Workplace Health & Wellness Evaluation can help make connections between the various types of risk factors affecting employee health at the individual, intrapersonal, organizational, and environmental levels that are supported through multiple pieces of data.
The key questions a Workplace Health & Wellness Evaluation can help answer are:
• What are the key health issues affecting employees?
• What factors at the worksite influence employee health?
• What are the employees’ health and safety concerns?
• What strategies are most appropriate to address these health issues?
Nairobi Fitness Consulting will help develop a deeper profile of what is going on at a workplace to help inform a workplace health improvement plan for initiating a workplace health program or making enhancements to an existing program.
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