Health Promotion Strategies

Before launching your Workplace Physical Activity Program, summarize the information you’ve gathered and plan your next steps.

At this point, you have

• gained support from management for the Workplace Exercise Program

• formed an staff member committee

• examined what is possible in your workplace

• found out what employees want and need in a Workplace Physical Activity Program.

Based on this information, you are now ready to create your action plan to raise physical activity at your workplace.

With the employee committee, take the following steps.

• Combine the results of the worker survey with the workplace environmental assessment, and report to management and workers.

• Prioritize the possibilities at each of the “levels” (individual, social, organizational, community, policy) in the workplace listed in “Keys to Success”. for example, suppose a big group of employees show an interest in biking to work.

Since these people  may want to shower and change after their commute each day, you might give showers and changing facilities priority in your workplace. Bike racks could also be important for making employees’ bicycles secure during the workday.

• Consult the list of practical suggestions found this website.

• Create a mission statement (one which aligns with your corporation’s overall mission statement) to define your purpose and help guide your process. Establishing goals and goals will help you achieveyour mission statement.

• Put together a plan or blueprint addressing what you’ve learned. Make program and activity recommendations with timelines, identify resources and assign responsibilities. Revisit the list of tasks outlined in “Step 2 –  Forming an Employee Committee.” Seek management approval to move ahead.

• Once your initiative is in place, it’s important to promote it to employees. Organizing a launch is a good way to do this. A formal launch also demonstrates management commitment. When employees don’t know about the initiative, they can’t take advantage of it!

• Decide what you need to track to show that you have reached your goals. Measure these factors before you begin. This way, when you evaluate later, you will know when there has been a change.