Getting Started & Managing Active Living at Work Strategies

The Keys to Fostering a Culture of Employee Health

The following principles and values lay a foundation for a corporate culture that embraces intervention programs like wellness and active living programs:

• People are an organization's most important resource, and each has a unique, value-adding contribution to make.
• Concern and care for the health of people is essential to achieve business success.
• Healthy employees enhance an organization's competitive position.
• A company with healthy employees has a positive impact on its community and customers.
• A change in individual employee health metrics can be an early indicator of changes in other aspects of business performance.
• Optimal employee health is compatible with and supportive of excellence in other aspects of business activity.
• Health, like other aspects of business, can be managed and self-managed.
• People adopt values that are emphasized by their organizational leaders.
• Employee health is an integral part of the business and is built on the belief that all injuries - and most illnesses - are preventable.
• Every employee at every level has responsibility for creating a healthy work environment and promoting healthy lifestyles.