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Why can’t work be a place where people go to become healthy?
At InjuryFree, we believe in a world where peoples’ work environments are safe, and injury-free. This is accomplished through prevention of injuries by promoting personal responsibility in health and safety. If we focused on prevention first, work would become a… Read More ›
Health and Wellness Program Benfits
In the 8th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends published by MetLife states that investing in health and wellness programs is an effective method to maintaining and improving productivity, as well as help to control medical and disability costs. Other… Read More ›
Are Stress and Sedentary Lifestyles Making Us Fat?
A recent study in The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine published in January 2010 shows that chronic job stress and lack of physical activity are strongly associated with being overweight or obese. This was not earth shattering news for… Read More ›
Are you Stressed?
Today’s topic is stress. I bring up stress today because it is April 13th and I JUST filed my taxes. Technically I am doing pretty well, since I usually have to call around on the 15th to find the one… Read More ›
World Health Day – 7 April 2010
Did you know today is World Health Day? The Word Health Organization (WHO) organized today’s event in an effort to raise awareness in health across the globe. Communities are encouraged to open their city streets for health-related activities. This year’s… Read More ›
The Sunshine Vitamin
GrassrootsHealth (GRH), a public health research organization working to get Vitamin D research from science into practice, announces it will host a landmark seminar April 9 in La Jolla, California to unveil the latest significant research on Vitamin D. According… Read More ›
Wellness Program Benefits
In an article posted by Stephen Miller for SHRM, he reports new survey results report the benefits in implementing a workplace wellness program, especially within a small to medium-sized company. Not only do wellness programs increase employee retention, they also… Read More ›
First-Aid and CPR: Why you Need to Know Both
First-aid and CPR training can be tremendously beneficial in a variety of circumstances. The benefits of knowing both CPR and first aid are so important that many workplaces now mandate employees to… Read More ›
Reading: Do Wellness Programs Make Cents?
Cited from CFO.com January 13th by Alix Stuart In a recent article published on CFO.com, the author contends that less than half (around 40%) of companies using wellness programs such as employee-assistance or health-improvement programs actually see a return… Read More ›
Wellness Efforts Face Hurdle
Article Cited from The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2010 by Cari Tuna The article Wellness Efforts Face Hurdle published in The Wall Street Journal reports that employers who offer cash incentives for employees or insurance-premium reductions to complete health… Read More ›
