Healthy Employees

When you work to make sure you are successful, you will also want to make sure that your healthy employees are working in the best possible manner. There are a number of ways to make sure you are succeeding and this article is about some of the most important things you can do to help make sure your healthy employees have a successful career.

One of the first things you will want to do is to make sure the company you are working for has a good fit for your health needs. For example, many companies may choose to offer a health and wellness program. This will give you more of a chance to be able to make changes in order to improve the way your health is working for you.

Another thing you will want to take a look at is the type of employee needs they are bringing to the table when they are doing the job. Do they really need to be there or are they there because they can make more money?

In some cases, this may not be the case. If this is the case, you will want to make sure the job description allows you to make changes in order to avoid burnout and unhealthy employees.

You will also want to make sure you schedule training classes for your employees as often as possible. You may want to set up regular fitness classes so employees get out and around for exercise. Then they will get more involved with their health and the company as a whole.

You may also want to try and keep your employees involved in a program that will help them develop good habits. Many businesses can provide good nutrition, but it can also benefit employees to develop healthy eating habits. You will find that more healthful employees generally perform better in the job.

The great thing about these things is that it doesn't cost anything. Some of the other things you will want to check into include support staff, training, and even places to eat. There is a lot that goes into making sure you are going to be successful and healthy at the same time.

You may want to find a local grocery store that offers a good selection of produce. Make sure you bring your own ingredients and you may even be able to get a discount.

You should also consider another option for nutrition, which is going to be found at one of your local's grocery store. This is a great place to get healthy foods for your employees because many of the items are prepared and packaged for convenience.

If you are not familiar with prepackaged items, you may want to look into buying a product that has all of its own unique ingredient that you can see and taste. This will be an option for your employees, because it will be convenient for them.

You may also want to schedule staff meetings once a week to talk about healthy things to eat and get into. It is also important to be sure that employees are aware of how to interact with clients should not feel bullied.

The key to success is for healthy employees to be working for you. With a little help from you, you can have a productive team working together to improve the health of your company.

 

Sources

This brief scanned the following sources (title, domain, description):

• WHO (who.int) -
• 57 Great Ways to Encourage Better Employee Health (inside.6q.io) - We explore 57 great ways to encourage better employee health, to improve the workplace wellness, and reduce company costs in sick days and more.
• Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive (hbr.org) - Four ways bosses can create them.
• For employees (headsup.org.au) - Look after yourself while at work and achieve a good work-life balance with these ideas, tailored to improving your mental health.
• Workplaces (sahealth.sa.gov.au) - To make our state the healthiest state, we need to make healthy choices easy for all South Australians. Resources, ideas, tools & programs to help staff and volunteers
• Healthy Workers Portal - Healthy Workers Portal (healthyworkers.gov.au) -
• COVID-19: what if healthy employees refuse to go to work? - Workplace Assured (workplaceassured.com.au) - If an employee refuses to come to work, or undertake work-related travel, because they is concerned about possible exposure to the coronavirus, it basically comes down to whether the employee has legitimate concerns for their safety.
• Healthy Workers Portal - Why a Healthy Workplace? (www1.health.gov.au) -
• Healthy Workers: 3x more productive. 9x less sick days. (blog.prochoice.com.au) - Healthy workers are almost three times more productive than their unhealthy colleagues, who take up to nine times the amount of sick leave each year.
• Corporate Nutrition Education - The Healthy Employee (thehealthyemployee.co.uk) - Helping employers create healthy, safe and productive workplace environments through nutrition focused health and wellbeing programmes and services.
• Healthy employees are three times more productive (medibank.com.au) -
• Healthy workplaces (nt.gov.au) - Benefits of a healthy workplace, tips for employers, wellbeing programs and healthy workplace toolkit.
• Workplace Health and Wellbeing - Healthy Happy Staff (healthyhappystaff.com.au) - An employee led workplace health and wellbeing program is a smart investment in your most valuable asset; Healthy Happy Staff is a must for your business.
• Healthy employees are happy employees! (actnursing.com.au) - Healthy employess are happy employees - Book an office nurse today for your next flu shots, eye tests or general check ups.

Topics

These topics were mentioned multiple times across various sources:

• mental health
• Healthy Workplace
• Improved morale
• health issues
• health and safety
• Department of health
• mental wellbeing
• health promotion
• employee health
• job satisfaction
• healthy living
• public health
• employee well being
• health problems
• healthy employees
• risk factor
• Improved staff morale
• health care
• health services
• health professionals
• employee engagement
• Happier employees
• working environment
• body weight
• energy levels
• healthy options
• organizational effectiveness
• healthy choices
• occupational health
• positive workplace culture

Questions

These are some relevant questions found across sources:

• What are the benefits of a healthy workplace?
• How To Create A Healthy Workplace
• How healthy is your industry?
• What is an unhealthy employee?
• What Can Workers Do?
• How to Be a Company That Employees Love
• Can an employee who refuses to attend work be dismissed?
• What makes concerns legitimate?

  Statistics

These are some factual sentences found across sources:

• Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center analysed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 American men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54% more likely to die of heart attacks. (inside.6q.io)
• fifty four percent 38. (inside.6q.io)
• According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services , about 80% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese, and in 2009, Diabetes was the seventh biggest killer in the USA. (inside.6q.io)
• Sixty percent to 80% of workplace accidents are attributed to stress, and it's estimated that more than 80% of doctor visits are due to stress. (hbr.org)
• That number is estimated at 550 million, not 550 billion. (hbr.org)
• It has been estimated that the healthiest Australian employees are three times more productive at work than their colleagues1 (www1.health.gov.au)
• Loss in productivity due to obesity through absenteeism, attending work when sick and premature death is estimated to cost $6.4 billion a year. (www1.health.gov.au)