Taking care of the health of your employees is an important step in ensuring uninterrupted workflow. When your employees are in their best shape, it minimizes the risk of them getting ill and missing work. The best way to ensure your employees remain in top shape is by implementing wellness programs at the office. These programs seek not only to prevent diseases but to also provide support to your employees whenever needed. Below are some guidelines that can help you design the best wellness programs:

1. Research
Before deciding which wellness program to implement, you need to do thorough research. This will help you select the program that best fits your employees. You may need to conduct several surveys. You can start by finding out the wellness interests of your employees. In which areas do they feel that they could use the most support? After that, you need to assess the health risk at your office? Are there any areas in which they could benefit from training in how to prevent work-related injuries? This may mean setting up an employee health check.

2. Management
Once you have narrowed down the list of programs, you need to come up with a management team for the wellness programs. Are there any employees that you trust to put in charge or do you want to hire a fresh management team? Furthermore, you need to assess which areas the programs will need support and how the company can help. Factoring the wellness programs into your company’s long-term and short-term goals can help you determine whether it’s the right fit or not. You can also share it with your sickness and absence management provider to track if it makes a difference to employee health.

3. Budget
In order to run a successful wellness program, it needs to be well funded. Thus, you need to look at your finances and see where the programs can fit in. It is important to find out whether your employees are willing to pay a subsidized membership fee. This will allow the cost to be shared. If you have an insurance provider, find out if they have any wellness programs and whether they will be willing to partner. If you are on a tight budget, consider implementing a program that can be run inhouse with minimal costs.

4. Program layout
Once the program has received a green light financially, you can now work out the details of the program. For example, you need to ask yourself how many days a week you want the program to run. You can also decide how long each session takes. If it is an inhouse program, you can plan out who heads which session. Make sure that all the details you lay out are in line with requirements of the legal bodies such as GINA, ADA, PPACA and HIPAA. You want to make sure this occupational health service is beneficial to all.

Contact Details:
Company Name: Employee Health Ltd
Address: 4th Floor, Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 6EB
Phone: (510) 210-5225
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Website: www.employeehealthltd.co.uk