Resources for My Business

Improving Worksite Wellness

A strong organization starts with strong employees — healthy, energetic, and engaged in their work. But a healthy business doesn’t create itself. Kaiser Permanente is proud to partner with our customers, and we also provide free tools and resources for other businesses to improve workforce wellness.

Whether you’re looking to launch a complete workforce health program or maybe just try out a healthy campaign or two, you’ll find the resources you need right here. It’s an easy, fast way to start developing a culture of health.

 

HealthWorks workbook

Use this free, hands-on guide to design and customize a workforce health program that’s just right for your business. You’ll get step-by-step advice, resources, and tools to help you assess, plan, engage and measure.

Create a wellness committee

One of the best ways to lead your employees to better health is with a team. Use our tools and resources to create a wellness team that will bring your workforce wellness program to life and drive healthy changes in your employees. Wellness committee toolkit>>

Host healthy meetings

Integrating simple, healthy habits into your meetings is a tangible and enjoyable way to boost energy levels and help employees stay focused throughout the day. It can be low-cost, flexible enough for small events, and easy to do. Even just including a quick stretch break at your daily team meeting is a healthy start. Healthy meetings tools>>

Walk for wellness

Getting your employees up and moving can be good for your business. Employees who exercise are more productive and have a better attitude at work. Studies also show that yearly direct medical expenses for physically active people are lower than for inactive people. Helping employees exercise more can keep them from developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and other potentially costly conditions. Healthy workers are also less likely to get hurt on the job.

Eat better

Employees with healthy nutrition habits are good for business — eating healthy has been shown to boost energy, concentration, and productivity. According to research, people with poor nutritional balance have 21 percent more illness-related absences and report 11 percent lower productivity. Check out these tools to see how you can help your employees eat better.

Get Inspired

healthy workforce video

Learn how other businesses have adopted these tools and helping their workforce get healthy. View the video>>

healthy workforce video

About 800 County of Marin (California) employees who participated in Thrive Across America over a 10-week period. They collectively completed more than 100 days of exercise. See how they benefited from Thrive Across America. View the video>>

 

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