Over the past two decades changes have been occuring in how businesses value their investments - and one of their greatest investments is their staff!
Would you like to have healthier, happier, more loyal employees?
Would you like to decrease your business costs, & increase productivity & profitability?
Workplace employee health promotion programmes have been shown to offer a strong return on investment through increased productivity and profitability, as well as reduced absenteeism & presenteeism.
(presenteeism is when workers are actually present at work but ineffective or with low productivity due to illness, outside distractions, stress etc - in summary "lights on; nobody's home!") I encourage you to check out the tabs above (under the logo) on this site: Resources Check this out for ordering Workfit posters, pedometers, sites for ordering online, or to find out where you can pick up, order or download great posters, flyers, etc. It also has a
fun stuff tab, for those times when you may be in need of some stress relief!
Workfit focuses on 7 kete (baskets) of health - although many are inter-related, information & services are separated into each of these. To find out more:
CLICK HEREThe 1st Six Kete has articles, ideas or information of interest in each health kete. It is where new articles referred to in the eletter will mostly be found.
At the bottom it also has links relevant to that health area.Policies & Guidelines Need help with developing or updating yours? See this section. There are sample policies, a host of guidelines in different areas, & contacts for people that can assist you in certain areas of policy development.
Workfit Calendar The idea of this is that the coordinator will put certain events or health observances in here - you can plan education, or staff interventions around this - eg. heart health education around Heart Health week, or group training for Tremain's Triathlon. Also check out the events link to the left.
Service Providers has details of providers, either private or public agencies who may be able to offer services into your workplace. This is just a "starter for ten" - if you know of anyone else that would like their services listed here, please get them to get in touch with me (Caroline).
Workplace Environment A workplace should create an environment that is safe & conducive to health, & that offers opportunities for healthy lifestyle choices. This section offers ideas in this space.
Kete 7 Personal Health Any articles or website relating to health will be found in this section.
Shared Stories I would like your help to populate this section. If you have some "good news" stories, or some evidence of positive change in your workplace, please please please send it to me, so others can learn from your great examples! There is also a tab in here that will grow as I hear of inspirational people - check it out.
Any other information you would like to see up here, please let me know... Kia Kaha - Good health to you all - it's up to you! CarolineOpt-in below. This will notify you of:
1. New documents/articles available in any of the 7 Kete Health Focus areas, or
2. Any upcoming community, educational or sporting events. If you would like you own notice to go out to all engaged workplaces, please email Caroline (see envelope icon to the left).
