The first step to ensuring wellness within the workplace is simply understanding the status of your employees health. How can you determine this?
Biometric screenings are vital when it comes to ensuring exceptional health and wellness to employees. A biometric screening, sometimes known as a biometric assessment, provides a clinical assessment of key health measures.
These screenings can measure:
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Blood pressure
- Glucose levels
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Cholesterol/lipid panels
- Triglyceride levels
How do employees benefit?
Detecting risk of disease is crucial towards taking the first step to improving your employees health. Assessing these factors can work towards preventing diseases like diabetes, measuring your risk of heart attacks, and working towards improving overall health. If three of the tested factors exceed normal range, your employees may be at risk for one of these conditions. Following their biometric screening, employees will be given tips and recommendations on how to lower these risk factors and work towards better health.
How do employers benefit?
As an employer, you may be wondering how providing these screenings will benefit the overall status of the company. It’s simple– better health leads to better performance in the workplace. It is important to show that your company cares about the health of employees. Everyone is more willing to perform better at work when they feel as if the company truly cares about their wellbeing. Providing employees a way of measuring their health shows that their wellbeing is important to you. A survey taken by the American Psychological Association found that 91% of workers are more likely to perform best at their jobs when they feel supported by their leaders.
Better health in the organization leads to fiscal benefits as well. Good health leads to less money being spent over time on healthcare costs. How can you take steps towards improving overall health within the company? Check out how to incorporate wellness into the workplace.
How to get employees to participate in screenings
When all is said and done, the most important step in providing biometric screenings is getting employees to want to participate. How can you encourage this? An easy way to get employees excited about wellness is through holding health fairs. Health fairs have the highest attendance levels over any other corporate wellness program. It is common for companies to provide biometric screenings on the day of health fairs. Since employees will receive their results immediately following the screening, this then allows employees to talk to professionals once they understand the status of their health. For more information on why holding a health fair is beneficial to your company, visit Corporate Health Fairs Florida.
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