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https://oem.bmj.com/content/oemed/61/7/643.full.pdf

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What needs to be implemented or changed in the work environment to provide safety and enhance the health of the employees?

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Creating a Recipe for Employee Engagement 

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Creating a Recipe for Employee Engagement 

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Environmental Supports for Workplace Wellness

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Prevention, C. f. (2018, March). Environmental Assessment. Retrieved from Organizational Level Assessment: https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/model/assessment/environmental.html

Worksite wellness policy and environmental supports. (2018). Retrieved from Clark County, Washington Public Health: https://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/worksite-wellness-policy-and-environmental-supports

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When thinking about creating and implementing an employee wellness program, it is important to make sure that the environment is suitable for promoting employee health. There may need to be modifications to the environment, such as lighting, access to healthy food, and access to physical activity.

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I found particularly the “Best Employers For Healthy Lifestyles” to be useful in adding to my definition of best practices. Many people think that employee wellness programs are for improving just physical health, but this article says “the leading employers are switching from trying to improve physical health to using holistic wellness strategies”. This article also looks at increasing employees social connectedness, job satisfaction, and financial security.

References

Health, N. B. (2017). Best employers for healthy lifestyles. Retrieved from http://bestemp.businessgrouphealth.org/bestemployers/

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https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/stress/qwlquest.html

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WELCOA
https://www.welcoa.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/06environment.pdf

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Provides policies for shaping the environment to promote health, provides assessments to determine the workplaces strengths and weaknesses and to determine the employee's needs, and also provides a survey and tools for environmental assessment and workplace culture.
Reference:
Commerce, F. C. (2012, September). Keys to a healthy Frederick worksite wellness toolkit. Retrieved from Chamber workplace wellness toolkit: http://www.frederickchamber.org/uploads/2/6/0/3/26038267/chamber_workplace_wellness_toolkit-_revised-_6.13.14.pdf

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This provides many valuable questions for setting up your wellness program. It has questions about many different environmental supports, such as lactation support, exercise facility, quiet spaces, educational classes, educational material (posters), emergency plans, occupational healthy, and community resources.
Reference:
Matson-Koffman, D. M. (2014). The CDC worksite health scorecard. Retrieved from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/docs/HSC_Manual.pdf

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This tool provides 100 questions for employees to answer about the environment of the organization. From the answers provided, I could make modifications to the areas that are needed.
Reference
Supportive environments. (2018). Retrieved from Wellness Council of America: https://checklist.welcoa.org/?b=5