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Weight Management
Maintain don’t gain for workforce health
With the number of responsibilities people face every day, it can be a challenge to keep their weight stable. By offering your employees fun and easy tools for managing their weight no matter what festivities or stressors are in their path, you can save on your health care costs while helping them stay healthier all year long.
Take the first step to a fit and healthy workplace
The Maintain Don’t Gain Toolkit provides a road map to get your business on a path to higher morale, decreased stress, and lower health care costs. The full interactive toolkit is available for download below.
Step 1: Assess
Steps
- Get leadership endorsement.
- Gather baseline company data.
What to do
- Present a business case to your leadership team on the benefits of healthy activities.
- Get your company recognized for healthy activities.
- Have your CEO or other leaders demonstrate their commitment to workforce health.
- Survey your employees on their interest in a healthy lifestyle program.
- Assess your work environment to see what you’re already doing to support nutrition at your workplace. Look at:
- vending machine contents
- policies for food at lunch and events
- whether you’re hosting healthy meetings
Tools and resources
- Build a case for workforce health shows how to engage leadership with facts and figures.
- Apply for the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Worksites external link
- Create your own free surveys with SurveyMonkey external link or Google.
- For more ideas, see our employee interest survey.
Get started with the Maintain Don’t Gain Toolkit
Additional resources
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DID YOU KNOW
– Pietrzykowska, obesityaction.org.