Getting started
Cajoling your employees to get fit and eat well may not seem like 'core business' but keep in mind that healthy, happy workers are sharper and take less sick days and that has to be good for any organisation. Getting started is about motivating and engaging people, getting the thinking right and working towards creating a workplace that fosters healthy habits.
Audit tool
The physical activity and nutrition audit tool is an easy to use, observational tool to assess the environment in and around a worksite and evaluate how it influences the employees' health behaviour. This tool assists employers to gather detailed information about current worksite policies and practices.
Staff Survey
This simple survey tool is designed to help employers assess current employee attitudes and behaviours towards physical activity and healthy nutrition choices. The results will help determine the priorities for your workplace wellness programme, and also to monitor the progress and impact of strategies already in place.
Workplace Wellness Literature Review
The NZ Well@Work literature review on workplace health promotion is available to assist you in the design and planning stages of your workplace wellness programme.
Wellness Manager job description example
Thinking of recruiting a Wellness Manager? This example job description offers ideas about the types of information you might wish to include on your job description document.
Igniting the SPARC
SPARC may be the government agency charged with getting people up and active but turning that message inward and motivating its own staff is a new challenge.
The organisation is working with the Ministry of Health on the Government Walking the Talk initiative. It's aimed at encouraging state sector employers to help staff become more physically active and eat healthy food. Organisational Development Manager, Donna Ransom, believes 'SPARCies' are already a pretty fit lot but she's still feeling the pressure. "We're supposed to be the gurus when it comes to fitness so naturally all eyes are on us to see how well we do."
