LIFE STYLE WELLNESS PROGRAMS
Wellness is the human process of being aware and actively working toward better health and a healthier lifestyle. Organizational Wellness Programs address this concept for all workers in a company with the design and implementation of a network of smaller, topical programs that move individuals toward a healthier, more vital, safe, secure and fulfilling way of living.
An organizational Wellness Program moves outside the parameters of Workplace Health and Safety and takes an organization into an area that addresses a worker's life in its totality, taking a holistic and life-in-balance approach and view.
The installation of an organizational Wellness Program, while not unknown in many companies, is still a relatively new concept in North American business. Today's business culture still largely views Wellness Programs as a hugely expensive and unneeded frill within an organization. Yet research is increasingly showing how the incorporation of a good Wellness Program has substantial and significant, long term and profitable benefits for an organization.
At SAFE-TEE MANAGEMENT we can design and implement a highly effective Workplace Wellness Program specifically tailored to your needs.
We can assist employers to motivate employees to improve their core health habits. Our programs counsel employees, in groups or individually, on:
- Nutrition
- Weight management
- Cholesterol reduction
- Exercise prescription, instruction and training
- Stress management
- Injury prevention.
Emphasis is placed on educating employees to be personally accountable for their own health.
Employees are also offered lifestyle advice and supporting health information as appropriate. Mini-health checks can include measurement of blood pressure, cholesterol (total or full) and glucose. We can also offer a range of lifestyle programs, giving practical help on issues such as smoking cessation, weight management and coping with stress.
We offer a wide range of health education programs, to help you comply with legislation, and to help people make decisions about important lifestyle issues. We can provide training seminars on:
- Health specific topics
- Occupational illness and disease
- Nutrition
- Smoking cessation
- Manual handling and lifting
- Health and safety awareness
- Use of personal protective equipment
- Occupational hygiene
- Hearing conservation
- Well woman/man topics
- Healthy eating/weight watching
- Healthy heart/cholesterol issues
- Chemical Hazard Awareness
- Benzene Safety
Customer benefits
Our Wellness Programs gives you and your employees the essential tools needed for:
- Increased employee awareness of individual health risks and opportunities for improvement
- Better decision-making by employees and their families regarding health habits and use of healthcare services
- Reduced employee healthcare costs
- Greater employee knowledge of self-care options, resulting in fewer unwarranted visits to doctors and the emergency room
- Improved employee morale, attendance, productivity and satisfaction.
Stress Management Services
Stress is said to be damaging the physical and mental health of five million employees in this country. It is a major cause of sickness absence and the greatest reason for long term absence in white-collar workers.
Early stress awareness and stress prevention can avoid crises for the individual and the organisation. Employers have a legal obligation to their staff to recognise and take steps to prevent stress at work from becoming a health risk
We have vast experience in advising companies on stress reduction and understand the sensitivities in this field.
Our stress intervention programs can include:
- Assessment of risk audits
- Policy development
- Stress management programs
- Stress seminars
- Confidential help lines
We’ll also help your managers with stress-related problems such as low productivity, bullying and harassment and staff retention.
Hearing Services