Wellness in the Workplace
Health promotion is an investment in your most important asset, your employees. SFM offers a variety of tools to employers looking to promote health and wellness in the workplace. These resources can help you address group healthcare costs and improve productivity over the long term.
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Recent news headlines on wellness topics. |
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SFM has a history of promoting wellness with its own employees.
Use SFM's examples to tailor your own. |
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E-News for SFM policyholders looking to promote wellness in the workplace. |
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Visit these links to learn more about investing in wellness and how it relates to workers' compensation.
Access links to wellness resources. |
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General wellness
Wellness related to workers' compensation
Physical fitness
Healthy eating
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Weight loss New!
Smoking cessation
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Visit these websites or download these apps to your smart phone to track calories, nutrition and exercise. SFM does not endorse any of these products. |
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Fitness
- Fitango.com
A fitness website that makes it easy to set and achive goals. Because fitness is viewed as a longer-term goal, Fitango provides a daily breakdown of activities to help uses get to where they want to be. Site provides 200+ plans for meeting goals – for free. Has discussion boards and other social networking features.
- Runkeeper.com
A mobile running app, follows and records user running activity thru GPS tracking. Data can be synced to RunKeeper to provide user with online log of workouts. Has map integration. Free app available.
Nutrition and calorie tracking
- Calorie Count
Participate in daily nutrition challenges. Keep track of your progress via the calorie bar. Publish a daily report to the Calorie Count community. Get support and feedback. Earn fun achievements by going above and beyond. Free app available.
- Fooducate.com
Provides information to make good choices at the grocery store. By scanning a product bar code, user can view additional data about the product such as about sugar and additivies. Fooducate also provides healthful alternatives for selected products. Free app available.
- Fatsecret.com
Provides nutrition information and allows user to input those foods into a food journal where they can track daily calories. User can also chart daily exercise and weight. Free app available.
- Myfitnesspal.com
Lose weight using this free calorie counter, diet and exercise journal. Find nutrition facts for more than a million foods. Scan products' bar codes or search through the food database. Set a weight loss goal and have your daily caloric needs automatically calculated for you. Enter your own recipes and calculate portions and calories. Free app available.
Stress management
- Stress Check
A stress test tool that provides users with an overall stress score. Users can deepen their insight by examining the specific areas their stress affects them (interpersonal, physiological, situational, control). Save scores and track development of stress over time. It's an excellent way to monitor progress on a stress reduction initiative, or to simply achieve a baseline of your stress over a period of time.
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For additional wellness resources, search SFM's Resource Catalog, keyword Wellness.
