Benchmark 6: Cultivate Supportive Health Promoting Environments, Policies, and Practices
Supporting efforts toward healthy employees includes evaluating policies, practices and promotions to ensure the environment helps foster a successful wellness initiative. It is grounded in the core vision and purpose of the organization. Aim to align the wellness culture throughout the organization so there is consistency within resources, interventions and the experience at work.
These resources will guide your progress toward creating supportive workplace environments to support employee wellness. You are provided sample policies, environmental considerations and how to use nudges to encourage positive health and wellness behaviors.
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Expert Interviews
Human Health and Wellness in the Built Environment with Dr. Brent Bauer
Wellness Alliance sits down with Dr. Brent Bauer from the Mayo Clinic.
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5 Practices to Consider In Creating Supportive Environments
Consider the five recommendations in this template to guide your progress toward creating supportive environments at the workplace to support employee health and wellness.
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Expert Interviews
Seven Points of Transformation with Dr. Rosie Ward and Dr. Jon Robison
In this interview, Rosie and Jon present a blueprint that leverages their "7 Points of Transformation" for building a thriving culture at work.
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Expert Interviews
Creating Shared Values with Dee Edington
Dee Edington and Jennifer Pitts have an exciting new approach to creating shared organizational values to improve well-being. Learn more in this exclusive expert interview.
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Expert Interviews
The Five Dimensions: Creating a Culture of Health with Judd Allen
Judd Allen shares how your company’s organizational environment can impact employee health and tips for creating a healthy, supportive culture of health.
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Preparing Your Workplace for Worker-Centered Responses to Potential Threats
Use this quick guide to learn how to prepare, prevent, and respond to an incident at the workplace.
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Tips for Creating a Resilient Workplace
This quick guide provides five tips for creating a resilient workplace.
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Expert Interviews
Focus on the Positive with MJ Shaar
Get some quick strategies for fostering positive emotions in our own lives and among employees.
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Expert Interviews
The Value of Workplace Ergonomics with Erik Nieuwenhuis
Standing desks, ergonomic work spaces and other tweaks to the built environment are showing promise in increasing total employee well-being and decreasing worksite injuries and pain. But what is the financial and health impact of these interventions? Workplace ergonomics expert and physical therapist Erik Nieuwenhuis gives us the total value story.
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Benchmark 6: Supportive Environments, Policies and Practices Sample Policies and Survey
Sample polices and survey related to Benchmark 6 “Cultivate Supportive Health Promoting Environments, Policies and Practices.”
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Sample Resources
Tobacco-Free Workplace Sample Policy
When preparing to create or review your workplace tobacco-free policy, consider using the template provided from the American Lung Association.
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Sample Resources
Ten Company Strategies: Travel Wellness
Consider these 10 policies or procedures within your business that will contribute to safe and secure employee travel.
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Sample Resources
“Sit For 60, Move For 3” Sample Policy
This sample “Sit For 60, Move For 3” policy can be used as a springboard for making your own communications.
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Sample Resources
Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking Model Workplace Policy
Use this sample policy as a reference point when creating policies and practices for your organization.
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Sample Resources
Drug-Free Workplace Sample Policy
When preparing to create or review your drug-free workplace policy, consider using the template provided from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Sample Resources
Workplace Wellness Sample Policy
When preparing to create or review your workplace wellness policy, consider using this template created with ideas from Queensland Government Wellness.
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Enabling Well-Being Through Safety
This resource is designed to help you evaluate your own organization to determine how to best support safety to then enable well-being.
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Expert Interviews
Eating Well: The Mayo Prescription for Good Nutrition with Dr. Donald Hensrud
Ryan Picarella, Wellness Alliance, sits down with Dr. Donald Hensrud for the Mayo perspective on food.
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Employee Facing Resources
Low Stress Eating
In this employee education presentation, take a closer look at the bidirectional relationship of stress and nutrition.
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Expert Interviews
The Exciting World of Well Building with Paul Scialla
What if you could structure an environment where your employees could experience improved health, well-being, productivity and performance?
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“Sit for 60, Move for 3” Poster
Use this “Sit For 60, Move For 3” poster to inspire physical activity in your workforce.