Introducing the American Heart Association's Workplace Health Solutions

While incorporating wellness in the workplace has become a growing trend in recent years, many businesses’ wellness programs are failing to reach full potential and produce desirable results. In fact, 90% of employers do not even measure their wellness program’s ROI and 77% of employers identify “lack of engagement” as their biggest obstacle in creating a successful workplace health program. Building the right wellness program takes time and there are a lot of factors. Truthfully, only 6.9% of worksites have a truly comprehensive health promotion program. So how can your business take the steps to establish a valuable wellness program?

Workplace Health Solutions Opportunities and Engagement

The American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Solutions is an initiative that offers a complete suite of evidence-based tools to help you and your employees get the most out of your workplace health program. The American Heart Association can help you assess the comprehensiveness of your programs and supporting workplace environment, provide access to resources, consult on strategies for improvement, implement programs that engage employees, and track progress toward ideal heart health. The American Heart Association has put together plenty of recommendations and resources that can help you get started on establishing or evolving your workplace health solution today. Get a plan in place and start to get your employees engaged with:

• EmPOWERED To Serve (ETS) Health Lessons are a series of 12 lessons that educate and engage employees about health topics and ways they can take steps towards creating a culture of health.
• Answers by Heart Fact Sheets and infographics provide education about major health topics.
• The American Heart Association YouTube channel has video presentations you can share with your employees.
• Informative illustrations and animations offer a visual learning experience for a variety of conditions, treatments and procedures related to heart disease and stroke.

You can also check out these opportunities that are available anytime:

• Workplace Health Solutions offers a suite of evidence-based tools to help you maximize your current employee health program.
• The Food & Beverage Toolkit can help you improve your food environment and promote a culture of health.
• Change. Control. and Target: BP provide tools and tips that help employees learn how to manage their blood pressure.

Health Fair Materials

Another great way to incorporate wellness in the workplace is by hosting a health fair that brings together your company through a community event. The American Heart Association will provide a standard health fair kit with free resources and materials. You can also order materials for your health fair through Krames Patient Education. To request a health fair kit, simply fill out and mail in the form below, three to four weeks in advance of your event. Download the Health Fair Materials Request FormTo learn more about how American Heart Association can help your business develop and evolve a workplace health solution, contact Dawn Barrack, Corporate Development Director here in Southfield at dawn.barrack@heart.org.You can also learn more online by visiting heart.org/workplacehealth and following AHA on Facebook and Twitter.