Employee Wellness Events
Employee Wellness Events
To help businesses to become more productive and successful by helping their employees to become healthier, more energetic and less stressed, while preventing and reducing injuries and ailments
SCREENING DESCRIPTION
WELLNESS DAY EVENT: SUMMARY
PURPOSE: To help businesses to become more productive and successful by helping their employees to become healthier, more energetic and less stressed, while preventing and reducing injuries and ailments.
Our programs are based on government recommendations and up to date research in the fields of ergonomics, nutrition, exercise, health and wellness. Each program is specifically designed to meet the unique circumstances of each organization we work with. In doing so, businesses can reduce health care costs by fostering healthy, happy and productive employees.
The Wellness Event can include part, all or a combination of the following activities:
A: Pre-Event Site Assessment. One of our Doctors is taken on a tour of your facility with a designated representative to assess the typical work environment and identify areas of greater risk of causing stress or injury. This allows us to customize the program to fit specific areas of need so as to maximize the benefits of the Wellness Event.
B: Injury Prevention and Stress Management Workshops. Employees are taught usable strategies to improve productivity, increase energy, and reduce the prevalence of ailments or injuries.
*Workshop topics and summaries are provided on the next page.
C: “One to One” Health and Wellness Assessments. Scheduled in 10-minute intervals, employees receive a brief health screening to evaluate and report on one’s physical, emotional and chemical stress levels. Health related questions are encouraged and will be answered.
D: Rejuvenating chair massages. Employees get to relax and feel appreciated for the work they do. Completed by a licensed massage therapist.
E: Post Event Report for Employers: Based on employee surveys, a statistical breakdown is offered that reflects the percentage of employees with specific health concerns. Action steps are custom designed for the employer to effectively handle and reduce these health concerns.
These Are the Workshops Most Commonly Requested By Businesses
HOW TO NATURALLY REDUCE STRESS
It is estimated that 80% of all health concerns are related to stress. Discover the 7 major symptoms of stress, the body part that most frequently gets “burnt out” from stress, and how to assess how you handle being under stress. Wellness strategies are taught to participants who will leave ready to reduce the harmful effects that stress can have on your life, while restoring energy, proper sleep, health and wellness.
STAY FIT WHILE YOU SIT: ERGONOMICS FOR A HEALTHIER YOU
Millions of Americans spend millions of hours each year sitting on the job. Managers, receptionists, computer operators, and many others may be surprised to find that their health issues can be improved through purely natural means. This lecture will educate the audience on how they can prevent problems like neck and back pain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by sitting properly and setting up their workspaces properly. It will also give them exercises that they can do during their breaks that can increase performance and productivity.
HOW TO PREVENT MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS IN THE WORKPLACE
Do your employees perform repetitive activities, like bending, lifting, sitting, computer or phone use? This is an Educational Approach to Injury Prevention and Safety. Reduce on-the-job injuries. Reduce sick days and Workman's Compensation claims by educating employees about what Musculoskeletal Disorders are and how to prevent them. Discover the warning signs of a musculoskeletal problem, like neck and back pain, headaches and joint pain. Learn what causes them both at work and at home, what the risk factors are, and how to prevent them from occurring.
MANAGING DIABETES NATURALLY
Diabetes is a serious medical condition that is becoming all too prevalent in today’s society. This workshop handles this problem by helping your employees understand what causes diabetes and the affects it has on their health. We follow this by teaching lifestyle changes that have been shown to manage this disease, or even reverse it.
WEIGHT LOSS: IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY BY SAFELY, NATURALLY & EFFECTIVELY LOSING WEIGHT AND KEEPING IT OFF
Research has shown that being 20 to 30 pounds overweight increases ones risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes by 3 to 4 times. Overweight employees have been shown to cost business millions of dollars per year due to missed workdays and reduced productivity. Being overweight increases the likelihood of illness, injury and fatigue. This workshop teaches a safe, natural and effective nutritional program designed by doctors to successfully help you to lose weight, restore energy, and get healthy naturally.
Who is The Foundation for Wellness Professionals?
The Foundation for Wellness Professionals™ is an association of professional healthcare motivational and keynote speakers and was originally founded as "The Doctors Speakers Bureau" in 1985 by Dr. David Singer, in Clearwater, Florida. This volunteer, not-for-profit association operates through independently-operated chapters across the United States and Canada. The Foundation for Wellness Professionals is incorporated as an official professional association with the State of Florida (N03000002637). It has 501(c)3 non-profit status.
For additional information pertaining to The Foundation for Wellness Professionals, please go to:
http://www.wellnessspeakers.org/
Fee for a Wellness Event
There is no charge to any local business for the presentation of the initial wellness event. Members of the Foundation for Wellness Professionals have agreed to dedicate their time as volunteers for 30 wellness events per year.
If a member is requested to travel for an event or to return to a business for a follow-up event, there may be a fee if the doctor has already fulfilled the commitment of 30 events per year. This can be reviewed directly with your local healthcare representative from the Foundation.
RESEARCH STUDY BY XEROX CORP. SHOWS 5 TO 1 RETURN ON INVESTMENT WITH EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAMS.
Workers who participate in wellness programs are less likely to experience on-the-job injuries than workers who are not involved in such programs. And, when injuries do occur, they are significantly less serious.
A four-year study examined on-the-job injuries among 3,338 workers at Xerox’s Rochester, New York, manufacturing complex from 1996 through 1999.
Participants in the study had been employed by Xerox since 1981 and were members of the Blue Choice Health Maintenance Organization. 72% of participants were male; the average age was 55.
Of the group, 943 employees had participated in the company’s health risk appraisal program in 1998, which evaluated the worker’s health risks (smoking, obesity, drug and alcohol abuse, high blood pressure, life and job dissatisfaction,) and was designed to steer them toward a healthier lifestyle.
Among those who participated in the health risk appraisal program, only 5.6% made worker’s compensation claims; whereas 8.9% of non-participants submitted claims.
Participants in the appraisal program had an average cost per injury of $6,506 compared to the $9,842 for non-participants.
On-the-job injuries cost the United States $125 billion annually, according to a 1999 estimate by the National Safety Council — including $62 billion in lost wages and productivity, $19.9 billion in medical costs, and $16.7 billion in other employee costs. Worker’s compensation insurance cost about $42.4 billion during that year, according to the council.
Programs such as the health risk appraisal typically cost 1-2% of the company’s health care expenses.
Employers should give serious consideration to implementing such programs. According to Xerox, over a 2-year period, they had a 5-to-1 return on their investment.
SOURCE: St. Petersburg Times, Sunday, July 22, 2001, p. 2f.