Healthy Employees

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can encompass a lot of work. Whether it’s eating right, finding time to exercise, or choosing not to smoke, living healthy can sometimes be challenging. However, in today’s corporate world, more worksites are implementing wellness programs to help their employees lead healthier lifestyles.

Since the majority of adults spend most of their day at work, a worksite wellness program can have a powerful influence on employees to adopt healthier lifestyles. Does your workplace offer wellness programs and/or resources to help you live a healthier lifestyle?

If not, WorkWell can help your worksite! WorkWell is a worksite wellness program offered by the Delaware General Health District. This service is available to any Delaware county worksite that is interested in offering their employees assistance in creating positive lifestyle changes. Services offered to worksites can include:

· Assistance in creating wellness committees for future wellness programming

· Mentoring an existing wellness team in efforts to strengthen wellness initiatives

· Reviewing worksite policies, such as the 100% tobacco free campus policy, to help create a healthier work environment

· Providing educational materials such as bulletin boards and newsletters focusing on various health topics

· Implementing health screenings such as blood pressure, cholesterol, body fat composition, and blood sugar

· Providing health education seminars on topics such as nutrition, physical activity, tobacco cessation and stress relief

Creating a comprehensive wellness program that is successful involves multiple levels of support within a business. You can be the changing force in motivating your employer to get on board with WorkWell. If you would like more information on how your worksite can enroll with WorkWell, contact Nicole Harmon at the Delaware General Health District, 740-203-2086 or nicole@delawarehealth.org.

*Delaware General Health District’s (DGHD) WorkWell services are funded from the Ohio Department of Health’s Cardiovascular Health Program and the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation. With grant funding DGHD is able to provide many wellness services for free, however in the event that grant funding is no longer available the full services prices will go into effect.