On the GCP blog we often address employee wellness and employee safety as two great ways to use gift cards. However employee wellness is a part of employees safety, in a broader sense that just at the workplace. Here are 7 steps from HR.BLR.com on how to incorporate an employees wellness program effectively, positioned as employees safety.
- Organize a planning group—The planning group will be responsible for designing a program that they know will be popular acroos the whole staff.
- Identify a "wellness champion" as a sort of employees of the month. To reward this person's exceptional behavior provide a small denomination gift card to healthy retailers like CVS/Pharmacy, GNC, and Nutrisystem, encouraging healthy behavior.
- Conduct a survey of employees to get an itial idea about how active your employees are, and what their attitude towards health and wellness is.
- Decide if your HR team will manage the program of if you will contract it out.
- Start slowly- offer fruit at meetings instead of bagels, get a lunch time walk going around the building. Rome wasn't built in a day.
- Assess and measure the ROI of your program frequently to ensure effectiveness.
- Consider ways to encourage participation, and incentivize.
