Environment

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Environment

• Management commitment
• Fitness Center
• Walking routes
• Blood pressure machine on-site
• Cafeteria selections
• Vending machines

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Health Risk Assessment

• Health insurance provider
• Incentive
• Flexible Spending Account
• Prior to Open Enrollment
• Optional
• Employee plus spouse
• 20 participation

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Weight Loss Program (HQ)

• Weight Watchers at Work
• 50 reimbursement
• Extra Incentives
• 2 coupon for salad bar in cafeteria
• Gift card raffle (holidays)
• 9 Lifetime Members
• 50 employees have participated
• Total Weight Loss 1,400 pounds
• October 2005

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Tobacco Cessation (HQ)

• 50 reimbursement for Over-the-Counter Nicotine
  Replacement Therapy
• Allen Carrs Little Book of Quitting
• 3 group meetings
• 7 employees participated
• 2 employees have successfully quit since 2/06
• One-on-One Meetings
• 3 additional employees successfully quit
• American Cancer Society Fresh Start

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Exercise Programs

• Minutes of Motion (HQ)
• 6 week program
• Pledge how many minutes you will commit to
  exercise each week
• Weekly incentives
• 25 participation
• 140,560 minutes
• Donated money to a non-profit organization

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Exercise Programs (cont)

• Walk All Over Diabetes (HQ)
• Correlation between inactivity and diabetes
• Lunch time walks (Wednesday) for one month
• Weekly Incentives
• Floor competition
• Educational Lunch and Learn on diabetes
• Glucose screening
• 33 participation

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Exercise Programs (cont)

• Tour de CPChem
• 9 week walking program (pedometer)
• Goal Reach 10,000 steps a day (5 miles)
• Competition to see who can walk to the most
  sites
• Enter your steps on-line or turn in step chart to
  site coordinator
• Weekly drawing at each site
• Average of 50 participation at each site
• Survey at conclusion of program and a follow-up
  to see if behaviors were sustained

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Miscellaneous Ideas

• Health Fairs
• Lunch and Learns
• Wellness speakers at safety meetings
• Sponsor a company team in a local race
• Monthly themes
• Stress Relief
• Walk All Over Diabetes
• Nutrition

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Lessons Learned

• Management approval
• Wellness committees need representation from all
  areas and levels of the organization
• Successful Programs
• Competitions
• Donations to a non-profit organization
• Try your ideas out look at the participation
  patterns and outcomes
• Employees enjoy being recognized

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Lessons Learned (cont)

• Find out employees interests
• Employee Wellness Program Survey
• Results from past programs
• Likes/dislikes
• Share ideas
• Best way to communicate
• Interview