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Worksites of all sizes support healthy eating and active living for employees and dependents. They adopt organizational policies and offer programs that promote access to healthy foods and beverages and opportunities for physical activity. Examples include a policy for healthy foods and beverages during meetings, providing showers for employees who exercise, and structuring benefit plans to include wellness services.

HEAL's Recommended Strategies for Worksites

• Gain leadership commitment and support
• Adopt employee health and wellness as an organizational strategy
• Designate a work group or individual to be responsible for program development, implementation and evaluation
• Assess employee and organizational needs
• Create an environment and policies that support healthy lifestyles, examples - time for exercise/physical activity breaks, healthy snacks and beverages offered during meetings/in vending machines, showers, bicycle racks, signs encouraging use of stairs, and breastfeeding-friendly policies
• Offer a variety of health promotion programs targeted to employee and organizational needs, examples - wellness messages in company communications, healthy lifestyle incentives, walking challenges, wellness coaching, and resources for nutrition, physical activity, weight management and smoking cessation
• Partner with your insurer to provide health promotion resources
• Collaborate with community partners to make employees and dependents aware of local healthy eating and active living resources

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