Health Programmes for Workplace Employees

This document discusses the importance of health programmes for workplace employees and how they can address issues like obesity and stress. It highlights the impact of these health issues on employee productivity and provides strategies for implementing health awareness campaigns and fitness programs. The document also includes a proposal for an Employee Assistance Program and guidelines for stakeholders involved in the programs.

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Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Part A:
For the employees working in the workplace, proper fitness is essential to ensure that they do not suffer from health issues. Therefore, for the
management of the workplaces, it is essential to identify the health issues that can result in increase of absentee among these employees. The
health survey conducted among the employees of Le Delbrock helped in assessing that most of the employees of the company are suffering from
the issues of obesity and stress. The first problem that is obesity is a problem which results due to heavy weight among the employees. This is
one of the most impactful issues for the workers because, the obese people mostly suffer energy losses and also face risks of health issues such
as cardiac arrests and other cardiovascular diseases1. This occurs mainly due to eating junk food in the office canteens or at other times. These
employees fail to provide their best performances despite of having relevant skills. This is mainly because of lack of energy that they need to
have to work with perfection. The health data of the Government of Australia show that in the year 2017-2018, it has been found that about 67%
adults of the country are suffering from problems of obesity or overweight2. The second health problem that has been identified is stress. This is
one of the most common health problems among the professionals. This occurs mainly due to high pressure in the workplace and due to low
work life balance. Stress results in low productivity and loss of motivation for quality performances in the respective activities. This problem
1 Doku, David Teye. 2017. "Designated By Weights: Obesity Among University Employees". Obesity Medicine 5: 11-15.
doi:10.1016/j.obmed.2017.01.001.
2 "Department Of Health | Overweight And Obesity", Health.Gov.Au (Webpage, 2019)
<https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Overweight-and-Obesity>.

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also results in hypertension among the employees which impact on their productivity at the workplace3. A report highlighted that about 31%
corporate of the country are suffering from workplace stress which is impacting on their job performances4.
The impact of these health issues is relative of the negative aspects. This is because; these health problems can result in increase of absentee
among the employees along with lowering their work productivity. Further, due to loss of motivation and continuous health problems, the skilled
and experience employees also resign from the company.
This brings in negative impact in attaining the objectives of the business. The main reasons for the negative issue are in the form of the
challenges that can arise for the management on managing the deadlines and quality of the tasks. If sufficient numbers of human resources are
not present at a time, then this can result in failure to meet with the business objectives within time.
Therefore, for Le Delbrock, the problems are prevalent and if proper health programmes are not arranged for the employees then this may not be
helpful for achieving the business objectives of the company.
Part B:
The identified health issues are required to be addressed so that the employees become aware of the preventive measures they need to implement
to make themselves healthy and fit for giving high quality performances. These issues can be addressed with the help of introducing the
Counselling seasons thorough which the problems of each of the employees can be identified and further suggestions can be given on making
3 Chung, Yang Woon. 2018. "Workplace Ostracism And Workplace Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Of Perceived Stress And
Psychological Empowerment". Anxiety, Stress, & Coping 31 (3): 304-317. doi:10.1080/10615806.2018.1424835.
4 "Department Of Health | Overweight And Obesity". 2019. Health.Gov.Au.
https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Overweight-and-Obesity.

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them aware about the consequences about those healthy problems. Along with this, health awareness programmes can be also essential as this
can help in addressing the health issues of the employees along with encouraging them to participate in the health improvement programmes.
The personal training classes can be highly effective and for attracting the employees in these programmes, it will be essential to conduct health
campaigns in the organizations. The health campaign should be conducted by professionals who have relative knowledge about the health issues
and thus, they will be able to develop strategies which can make these employees aware of the prevention that they would require to implement 5.
These health campaigns need to have some objectives which can help the professionals to understand the processed by which the employees can
be attracted to these programmes. The contribution can be also given from the part of the canteen on offering health food and drinks for the
employees at a lower price that the junk foods.
Part C:
In the process of helping the organization to support health awareness among its employees, proper planning should be made on developing the
health awareness programmes6. The objectives of these programmes are:
Goal: The goal is to help the employees of the company to lead a healthy lifestyle with the help of health improvement sessions
Objective:
 To assess the health problems of the participants
 To assess the impact of those health problems on their job performances
Evaluation
indicator:
By assessing
the blood
Tool:
Medical test
5 Eng, J. Y., F. M. Moy, and A. Bulgiba. "Impact of a workplace health promotion program on employees’ blood pressure in a public
university." PloS one 11, no. 2 (2016): e0148307.
6 "Health Awareness Programs | Foundation For Community Health". 2019. Fchwmt.Org. https://www.fchwmt.org/health-awareness-
programs/.

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 To identify the reasons for the health problems
 To make them aware about the prevention that they would need to implement to solve the health
programmes
 To schedule fitness and health programmes for these employees
pressure and
level of
obesity
Strategy Type of
strategy Activities Timeline Person(s)
responsible
Resource
requirement
Evaluation
indicator Tool
Identifying
the
employees
who would
be
responsible
for actions
Self-
evaluation
As a representative of the health
awareness programmes, I would
be identifying the employees
who would be given the
responsibilities to handle various
tasks regarding the programmes
3 days Human
Resource
manager
Observation Analyzing the
knowledge of
those
employees
Scientific
articles
Approval of
the proposal
To approve
the
programmes
I would approach the Board of
Directors of the company to
approve the proposals on the
program
5 days Directors Presentation Knowledge of
the Directors
Fact sheet
Counselling Understanding
the problems
In this process, the professionals
will have the counselling
sessions with the employees for
understanding their health issues
10 days Management Health
reports
By analyzing
the respective
health issues
Evaluation
framework
Evaluation In this process, the employees 25 Employees Key reports By analyzing Communication

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Health and
fitness
programmes
will be engaged for participating
in the health and fitness
programmes
the health
improvements
of the
employees
materials
Part D:
To,
The Senior Manager
Le Delbrock
Subject: Proposal about the Employee Assistance Programmes
Sir,
I would like to gain your attention about the issues of health related problems of the employees of your organization. In recent years, due to high
workplace pressure and intention of the employee on having junk food, health issues such as obesity and stress have increased significantly. This
is also having impact on the performances of these employees and the number of absentee is also increasing gradually. Therefore, it will be
essential to conduct some health awareness programmes for these employees so that they can be encouraged to keep themselves health and fit.
This will also help them to overcome the challenges regarding motivation and commitment in the workplace. Moreover, it is understandable that

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due to the low performances of the employees, it is difficult for you to achieve the business objectives in time. Therefore, if proper health
awareness programmes can be executed, then the problems of the employees as well as for the company can be solved effectively.
In this program, first of all, I would be arranging a counselling session for the employees through which it will be possible to identify their health
issues. Secondly, a health awareness campaign will be conducted which will stress on the importance of joining the health and fitness problems.
In this campaign, marketing will be conducted with the help of leaflets and by making a presentation which will discuss about the impact of the
health issues and benefits of joining thee programmes. Feedbacks will be taken from each employee after completing each of the sessions. The
evaluation will be made based on the improvement of health and by conducting a medical checkup after each session.
I hope to receive your support for making the program possible and to achieve the objectives of these programmes.
Thank You
Allan Roberts
Representative, Health Camp
Part E:
Stakeholder(s) Method of communication Communication topics
Directors Email About the proposal and progress of the programmes
CEO Video conferencing About the requirements of the programmes

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Management Face to face conversation About the process of executing the programmes
Employees Face to face conversation About the health improvement programmes and the awareness of health
improvement
These methods of communication will be maintained throughout the programmes and if required, there can be alteration in the methods
depending upon the requirements and strategies of the programmes. More stakeholders can be added in the plan if required at any point of time
during the programming and after the approval of the Directors.
Part F:
The policy statement will provide the guidelines which are required to be followed by all the stakeholders who would be involved in the
programmes. The guidelines are described below:
 Communication should be made by all the stakeholder throughout the programmes as lack of communication can result into inefficiency
in the program execution
 All the planning will be documented and this will be done in the vision on better understandings of all the methods that will be
implemented.
 A medical professional will take the responsible to conduct the counselling sessions which will be used for documenting thee health
issues of each of the employees.
 The service of health and fitness programmes will be conducted by the health professional who will guide the employees towards
achieving a healthy lifestyle.

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 The contact information of both these professionals will be provided in the documents so that all the stakeholders will be benefited from
the information.

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Bibliography:
"Department Of Health | Overweight And Obesity". 2019. Health.Gov.Au.
https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Overweight-and-Obesity.
"Department Of Health | Overweight And Obesity". 2019. Health.Gov.Au.
https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Overweight-and-Obesity.
"Health Awareness Programs | Foundation For Community Health". 2019. Fchwmt.Org. https://www.fchwmt.org/health-awareness-programs/.
Chung, Yang Woon. 2018. "Workplace Ostracism And Workplace Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Of Perceived Stress And
Psychological Empowerment". Anxiety, Stress, & Coping 31 (3): 304-317. doi:10.1080/10615806.2018.1424835.
Doku, David Teye. 2017. "Designated By Weights: Obesity Among University Employees". Obesity Medicine 5: 11-15.
doi:10.1016/j.obmed.2017.01.001.
Eng, J. Y., F. M. Moy, and A. Bulgiba. "Impact of a workplace health promotion program on employees’ blood pressure in a public university."
PloS one 11, no. 2 (2016): e0148307.