hsc workplaces guidebook 8.8.13

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Healthy Sarasota County WorkplacesGuidebook


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Healthy Sarasota County Workis an initiative committed to helping lbusinesses achieve their wellness goaor strengthening their employee well

This county-wide initiative aims to:

Guide businesses in identiying implementing promising strategpractices that ensure positive he

Connect businesses to communthat can help promote employe

Assist businesses in becoming aHealthy Sarasota County Workp

Recognize businesses that are dhealth and wellbeing o employ

Benets of Becoming a HSC WBy applying, meeting the requiremenbecoming a certifed Healthy Sarasota

Workplace, you will:

Be awarded the Healthy SarasotWorkplaces designation, decal a

Receive access to the Healthy Salogo or print and electronic use

Get the chance to participate in Consortia to hone your wellness

Have your business and its succshowcased on our website, healcom

Healthy Sarasota County WorkplacesApproximately 75% o healthcare costs stem rom preventable chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke,

and diabetes. In the fght to combat these diseases and their spiraling costs, experts call comprehensive, prevention-based

employee plans a silver bullet to shrink health costs and boost productivity.

Workplace wellness programs are a win-win or both employer and employees. An employee wellness program can raise

awareness so employees with ewer risk actors remain in good health and maintain low-cost status. A program also can

encourage employees with health risk actors to make liestyle changes, to seek help to improve their quality o lie, andthereby lower insurance costs. Positive changes can occur in the orm o organizational and policy change to support

healthier environments and healthier choices or employees.

Employees who participate in workplace wellness programs are ftter, are more productive, have better morale, and are

saer than employees who do not otherwise address chronic conditions. Employers who oer wellness initiatives have

achieved excellent returns on their investment. The payo in dollars as well as in quality o lie can have a big impact on

your companys bottom line. Programs that ollow best practice guidelines return $2 to $4 dollars or each dollar invested

through reduced absenteeism and healthcare costs.

ReturnonInvestment

Forevery$1invested,

wellnessprogramscan

return$2to$4inreduced

healthcarecostsandlost

productivity.

OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS


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Road Map to Becoming a Healthy Sarasota County Workplace

1. CREATE AWELLNESS COMMITTEE

With the support o uppermanagement, create a wellness

committee or establish a wellnesspoint o contact at your worksite.

2. RSVP

Complete a Workplaces RSVP cardonline at healthysarasota.com or

return a paper copy by ax or mail.

3. WELLNESSCONSULTATION

A HSC Workplaces consultant willcontact you to schedule a reewellness consultation in whichyou will select goal areas and

create an action plan.

4. HEAASSESSM

Conduct individhealth risk asses

Workplaces consuyou to res

5. SELBENCHM

Using this toolkitgoal areas that ftinterests and nee

benchmark menuone essential, one and one optional

work

6. WORK ON THEBENCHMARKS

Work toward achieving yourselected benchmarks by

implementing strategies defnedin the menus.

7. SUBMITAPPLICATION

Submit a HSC Workplaceseedback orm and application.

OPTIONAL: Schedule a ollow-upvisit by a HSC Workplaces wellness

consultant.

8. BE RECOGNIZED

Your business will receive a HSC

Workplaces certifcate displayand will be recognized on

healthysarasota.com.


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ResourcesHealthy Sarasota County Workplaces5210 Healthy Liestyles Train-the-Trai941-861-2998 or www.healthysarasot

Tips or Eating Outwww.helpguide.org/lie/ast_ood_nu

CDC Healthy Weight ino: www.cdc.go

Guidelines or Healthy Meetings

health.ny.gov/community/disability/g

Power Vending - Supporting Healthy Cwww.powervending.org/4_easy_step

University o Florida IFAS Extension - Co941-861-9815 or sarasota.ias.u.edu

Healthy Eating BENCHMARKS MENU LOW-INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS ESSENTIAL RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

Promote healthy eating via email, posters, payroll stuers, etc.

Policy supporting healthy ood options at meetings

Policy supporting healthy undraising at work

Promote visits to local armers markets

Promote Healthy Sarasota Countys 5210 Healthy Liestyles message

Oer classes related to weight loss, nutrition and physical activity

Provide tips or eating out: www.helpguide.org/lie/ast_ood_nutrition.htm

Post links on employee intranet to Cutting Calories, Eat More Weigh Less:

www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating

Participate in 5210 Healthy Liestyles Train-The-Trainer program

Policy supporting healthy snacks and drinks in vending machines

MEDIUM-INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS

Provide well-equipped break rooms or healthy meal preparation

Encourage employees to choose water to drink and make it more available

Grow a workplace garden with assistance rom UF IFAS Extension

Establish a weight-loss and healthy eating group at work

Create incentive program using USDA SuperTracker: supertracker.usda.gov

HIGH-INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS

Incentivize participation in nutrition and weight-management programs

Include amily members in health and nutrition benefts

Oer nutrition, cooking and healthy eating classes

Subsidize group nutrition counseling by SMH nutritionists

Partnering Agencies

Florida Department o Health

Sarasota Memorial Health Ca

University o Florida IFAS Exte


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Physical Activity BENCHMARKS MENU LOW-INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS ESSENTIAL RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

Provide positive eedback and support to those taking active breaks

Promote a buddy system to encourage walking at work

Encourage activity on breaks, lunch and at work stations

Map out an indoor or outdoor walking trail and share with all employees

Provide inormation on benefts o exercise and activity

Start a walking club or encourage participation in active community events

Establish a CDC STAIR-Well program



Incentivize weight loss/ftness challenges

Make 5210 healthy liestyles message and materials available to all employees

Send texts/tweets reminding employees to be active

Host a monthly un activity and incentivize participation

Oer on-site ftness classes

Encourage commuting by bike with bike racks, showers and chaging rooms

Incentivize purchasing athletic shoes or walking during the work day


Provide on-site ftness center as part o health benefts

Subsidize/discount ftness club memberships; implement pay-or-perormance

Incentivize participation in nutrition/weight management programs

ResourcesHealthFit: 941-917-7000 or www.sm

South County YMCAwww.southcountyamilyymca.org

Centers or Disease Control & PrevenSTAIR-Well Program

www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/

Healthy Sarasota County Workplaces5210 Healthy Liestyles Train-the-Tr941.861.2998 or www.healthysaraso

Walk Jog Run: www.walkjogrun.net

Partnering Agencies

South County YMCA

HealthFit, powered by Saraso


Sarasota Memorial Healthgears up for the Tour


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ResourcesEmployee Assistance Program & Pine TreSarasota Memorial Health Care System941-917-6755

Bayside Center or Behavioral Health: www.smh.com -> search Bayside

Sarasota County Call Center: 941-861

Sarasota County Parks and Recreation941.861.5000 or parksonline.scgov.ne

Stress Reduction BENCHMARKS MENU

LOW-INVESTMENT BENCHMARKS ESSENTIAL RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL

Provide education and materials about mental health and illnesses,

substance use, trauma, and stress reduction through various means:

brochures, posters, intranet, paycheck stuers

Provide inormation on community resources or confdential screenings or

depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.

Provide inormation on telephone help lines such as Sarasotas 2-1-1 hotline

Provide exible scheduling or classes, trainings, etc.

Encourage recreation and involvement in community activities

Oer a quiet room at work with sot lighting and ree o mobile devices

Oer massage therapy sessions (3-30 minutes) given by a licensed massage

therapist and paid or by participating employees


Train managers/supervisors in recognizing mental health as a actor inperormance and in how to engage HR and EAP

Provide a variety o mental health presentations and trainings with

emphasis on coping skills, prevention, and treatment

Oer classes on conict resolution, managing priorities, fnancial planning,

parenting, project planning, etc.

Policy to encourage rest and stretch breaks

Implement employee-paid & employer-subsidized yoga/relaxation sessions


Oer employees and amily members assistance through the EAP

Provide comprehensive health insurance coverage including mental

health screenings, counseling sessions, and reerral mechanisms

Partnering Agencies



Tidewell Hospice empwork to relieve st


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ResourcesSouth County YMCA - Diabetes PrevDiabetes Message Line: 941-492-96

Diabetes Prevention BENCHMARKS MENU


Raise awareness o diabetes risk actors among employees with this

scorecard: ndep.nih.gov/media/you_could_be_at_risk.pd


Inorm employees o complications associated with diabetes & developing

prediabetes

Link employee intranet to the South County YMCAs Diabetes Prevention

Program; promote the program in the workplace

Provide suggestions or healthy celebrations and undraisers

Promote SMHs Diabetes Treatment Program

Place link on employee intranet to diabetes awareness and management

websites: www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/tcyd/


Oer no-carb, low-carb and low-at options at celebrations and meetings

Incentivize weight loss programs and celebrate successes

Promote healthy eating classes such as SMHs Eating Healthy or Lie


Subsidize weight loss programs

Incentivize employee participation in YMCAs or SMHs Diabetes

Treatment programs

Subsidize South County YMCAs Diabetes Prevention Program

Partnering Agencies

South County YMCA



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Tobacco Cessation BENCHMARKS MENUI you have identifed Tobacco Cessation as a goal area or your business, please choose at least one essential,

one recommended, and one optional benchmark. Adapt the strategies presented to your companys individual

interests and needs. A HSC Workplaces consultant can assist you in selecting and adapting benchmarks.

ResourcesHealthy Sarasota County Tobacco-Freewww.healthysarasota.com/workplace

Tobacco Cessation Presentation: 941-8

Florida Quitline 1-877-U-CAN-NOW (82www.quitnow.net/orida

American Cancer Society: www.cance

Gul Coast AHEC: www.gsahec.org

Partnering Agencies

Gul Coast AHEC (Area Health E


Tobacco Free Partnership

o Sarasota County

Luhrsen Law Group adopted tobac


Policy prohibiting tobacco use at work and on work property

Promote Tobacco Free Floridas 3 Ways to Quit

Schedule presentation by Healthy Sarasota County Workplace Consultant

Inorm employees o local and state cessation programs and services

Link Gulcoast South Area Health Education Center, Inc. (AHEC) Tobacco

Trainings and Cessation website to employee intranet

Promote www.smokeree.gov

Contact AHEC regarding Tools to Quit or Quit Smoking Now

Make AHEC education materials available to employees in common areas or

break rooms


Schedule a Tobacco-Free Workplace presentation to inorm employees o

policy changes and tobacco cessation options

Host a cessation and awareness event such as the American Cancer Societys

Great American Smoke Out with the assistance o the Tobacco Free

Partnership o Sarasota

Start a QUIT FOR LIFE Group with the American Cancer Society

www.cancer.org/healthy/stayawayromtobacco/quit-or-lie


Provide Nicotine Replacement Therapy through health insurance

Provide counseling through health insurance


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ResourcesDepartment o LaborDrug-Free Policy & Sta Training Mowww.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugree/d

National Institute on Drug Abuse Wwww.drugabuse.gov-> search work

D-Fy (Drug-Free Youth): www.drugr

Drug-Free Workplace BENCHMARKS MENU


Policy to train managers/supervisors on drug and alcohol misuse/abuse

(including prescription drugs) using Drug-Free Workplace Advisor:

www.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugree/drugs/screen1.asp

Policy in employee handbook prohibiting alcohol/drugs in the workplace

and encouraging employees to seek help with alcohol and drug problems

Policy to train managers/supervisors on drug-ree policy, signs o drug

abuse, and treatment resources using Drug-Free Workplace Advisor (above)

Ensure the availability o a current list o qualifed community proessionals

Ensure manager/supervisor access to NIDA publication Drug, Brain and

Behavior The Science of Addiction (available at www.drugabuse.gov)

Post NIDAs Drugs & the Body poster in employee restrooms

Post links to local 12-step meetings on employee intranet


Post link on employee intranet to Mixing Alcohol with Medicines: HarmfulInteractions pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Medicine/medicine.htm

Become a business partner o D-Fy (Drug-Free Youth), oering discounts or

other perks to young people committed to remaining drug-ree


Investigate elements o a drug-ree workplace policy with this tool:

www.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugree/drugs/screen2.asp

Adopt a drug-ree workplace policy: workplace.samhsa.gov

Allow the use o accrued paid leave while seeking treatment or alcohol and

other drug problems

Partnering Agencies

Florida Department o Hea

Sarasota Memorial Health

Bualo Wings & Rings in North Por

people participating


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ResourcesWalgreens Breast Pump Rentals

Waldemere Plaza: 941-955-6012Bee Ridge Rd & US 41: 941-926-252

Sarasota Memorial Breasteeding Warm

Healthy Start Coalitions BreasteedingSarasota County (BASC): 941-373-707

Breasteeding support groupsWaldemere Medical Plaza: 941-917-1North Port Library: 941-485-6179First Presbyterian Church (Jeannie): 9Birthways Family Birth Center: 941-3

La Leche League Sarasota: 941-922-2La Leche League South County: 941-3

Support for Breastfeeding BENCHMARKS MENU


Provide list o local breasteeding resources to employees

Post breasteeding-riendly decals at client and employee entry points

Post Healthy Start Breasteeding Magnet in restrooms and break rooms

Policy permitting mothers to express milk at work using own resources

Establish time and private place or mothers to express milk

Train sta in how to respond to questions about breasteeding

Provide inormation on the importance o breasteeding

Post breasteeding-riendly policy in customer restrooms


Investigate health insurance coverage or lactation counseling and supportservices; promote counseling and services

Investigate health insurance coverage or breast pump rentals; promote and

provide access to pumps

Invite community organizations and guest speakers on benefts o

breasteeding

Promote breasteeding to new and expecting mothers and athers


Policy permitting inants be brought to work or breasteeding only

Policy permitting inants to stay at work or the frst 6 months o lie to

promote breasteeding

Establish a private, dedicated lactation room

Partnering Agencies


Healthy Start Coalition o Sara

Thanks to Healthy Starts breastfeeding polilike Jamee are encouraged to take their


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ResourcesVisiting Nurses Association (not-or941-485-4661 or 239-337-4848

Florida Department o Health in SarImmunizations or Adults & Travele

William Little Center (Sarasota): 94North Port Health Center (North P

Sarasota Health Care Services, Inc:

Centers or Disease Control & Preventiwww.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules

Employee e-card Im Nagging Bet.cdc.gov/ecards/message.aspx?car

Illness Prevention BENCHMARKS MENU


Post Clean Hands Campaign signage in all restrooms and lunchrooms

Provide inormation to raise awareness about u, tetanus, pertussis,

pneumonia, HPV, and shingles

Prompt employees to get vaccines using this CDC e-card:

t.cdc.gov/ecards/message.aspx?cardid=610

Reer employees to the health department or drug stores or vaccines

Promote vaccines through mid-level management

Post a copy o the CDCs Adult Vaccine Schedule:

www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules


Host a u shot clinic during work hours

Train managers/supervisors in inectious diseases, saety, and vaccines

Incentivize employees to get their u vaccines


Provide on-site opportunities or vaccines or all employees

Subsidize the cost o vaccines

Partnering Agencies

Florida Department o He

Healthy Start Coalition o


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