Implement Work Well
After you have captured management support, assessed your workplace and started your planning, you are ready to implement! Here are some resources to help you get started.
Live Well Breathe Well
- Promote the South Dakota QuitLine
- Order support materials from the South Dakota Department of Health
- Incorporate the use of safety equipment
Live Well Eat Well
- Provide Access to a Full-functioning Break Room
- Develop a Corporate Garden
- Work with Local Producers to Bring a Farmer’s Market to Work
Live Well Feel Well
- Host a Big Squeeze (blood pressure screening) event annually
- Train Employees on CPR and Install Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)
- Join the Face It TOGETHER Sioux Falls Employer Initiative (substance dependency)
- Provide Individual and Organizational Strategies and Solutions to Effectively Manage Stress
- Provide Individual, Workgroup and Organizational Opportunities for Employees to Build Internal and External Relationships (both on and off work time)
Live Well Move Well
- Implement a Physical Activity Policy or Strategy
- Provide Worksite Walking Routes
- Encourage Physical Activity Breaks
- Reduce Seated Work Time
- Implement Industrial Athlete Programming (i.e. pre-shift exercises)
- Support Transit Use to Promote Active Transportation
- Encourage Bicycling to Work
- Improve bicycle parking
- Bike to Work tips
- Bike to Work guide
- Provide on-site changing/locker facilities
Promote Other Areas of Well-Being
- Provide Employees the Opportunity to Sharpen their Skills in Personal Finances
- Provide Individual, Workgroup and Organization-wide Opportunities for Community Involvement (both on and off work time)
- Establish Proactive and Integrated Workplace Policies that Embrace a Culture of Safety and Enforce Daily Safety Standards
- Good & Healthy SD Model Policies