Workplace Health & Wellness Tips

• Offer healthy vending machine snacks (pretzels, baked chips, oatmeal bars and popcorn)
• Offer discounts or incentives to join a workout facility
• Encourage walking meetings instead of sitting in a conference room to discuss projects
• Offer CPR, first aid training
• Offer at least one healthy option for both food & beverage in your cafeteria
• Involve exercise into annual and quarterly meetings
• Post signs around elevators to remind employees that taking stairs are a healthier choice
• Offer fun incentives such as pedometers and water bottles to reward employees for getting fit
• Include health tips in company newsletters and emails
• Create a start date to get employees excited about getting healthy
• Encourage walking teams or buddies

Eating right while at work

Your Company Check list

Cafeteria

• At Least one no sugar beverage
• Fresh fruits readily available
• Vegetables prepared with little to no salt added
• Whole grain and wheat options
• Fat-free, low-fat or 1% milk/dairy products
• Lean meats
• Eliminate hydrogenated oils and substitute liquid oils for backed goods
• Limit or reduce the amount of fried foods served, and use only liquid oils

Vending Machines

• Minimum of ¼ of vending machine options should be low sugar, low salt alternatives
• Offer fruit without sugar added or fresh fruit
• Offer whole grain snack options such as popcorn and whole-grain crackers
• Offer oatmeal bars and baked chips
• Organized Meals (Meetings)
• Provide water and other no-added sugar beverages to meeting rooms
• Bring in a bowl of fruit for a snack or as a dessert substitute
• Provide a whole wheat, high fiber snack for afternoon meeting