Health care costs are one the rise and everyone is looking for a way to curb this added cost of business. One way to decrease these costs and help retain employees is by putting effort into promoting the health and well being of your employees.

The benefits of helping your employees adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles are many. Healthy employees use fewer health care dollars, have fewer workers compensation claims and are absent less often. Increases in morale and reduced stress are also well documented.

Because our adult population spends a majority of their waking hours on the job, the workplace has become a significant setting for offering prevention programs. Further, worksites offer technical advantages that foster health behavior change.

These include the ability to:

• Apply long-term interventions for health improvements;
• Acquire health-related data with relative ease;
• Provide social support; and
• Facilitate mass communication as well as individualized information to employees.

Check out the Be Active North Carolina Worksite Health Promotion Program.