There are many benefits in helping your employees adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles. 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. Furthermore, 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.