Creating a Safety and Wellness Culture in Your Company

Manager teaching employees about safety and wellness

Beyond吸引和招聘合格的求职者和入职和培训员工加入组织，雇主可以采取许多步骤来促进安全和劳动力的持续健康和生产力。专注于安全和健康的过程来支持和吸引您的员工队伍，可以帮助员工在家庭和工作场所采用更健康的生活方式。

长期以来，雇主已经认识到计划保留有才华和经验丰富的雇员的重要性。雇主越来越多地增加工作场所健康计划，以帮助促进员工的整体健康。¹

根据2017 Travelers Business Risk Index, 61% of U.S. businesses worry about medical cost inflation. Given that the average worker can spend up to half of their waking hours on the job, employers are recognizing the role they can play in promoting the health and wellness of their employees, including helping them prevent or manage some chronic health conditions.

不断扩大对健康的关注

尽管大多数公司都提供一般安全培训，并开始接受安全文化的重要性，但健康和保健计划的定义通常较低。公司开始考虑实施健康计划来支持员工的健康和福祉。

“By considering employee safety and wellness holistically, business owners have exciting opportunities to reduce the potential for accidents, improve return-to-work outcomes and better manage overall medical costs,” says Marty Henry, Senior Vice President, Risk Control. “For example, we’re working with many of our customers with trucking operations to encourage them to address the importance of driver health and wellness and consider the impact that may have on overall loss and medical costs.”

Creating a Program to Support and Engage Employees

支持和吸引您现有的劳动力包括促进安全性并鼓励工作场所内外的健康生活方式。有三个关键要素需要考虑：

Injury and illness prevention programs:这些计划可以确定与特定立场有关的常见伤害和疾病，并建议采取预防措施。
Safety leadership and safety culture:这是该组织领导层以身作用的机会，证明了安全文化在所有操作中。
一般安全培训：This includes many of the traditional safety practices and programs that employers offer.

在工作受伤之后，重要的是要制定一项计划，让员工在医疗返回后立即工作。您如何管理伤害会影响业务连续性。旅行者有一个Corridor of Care^®post-injury management process designed to assist employers in supporting the injured employees from the moment they are injured through their return to full duty.

过渡义务计划可以提供帮助：

Employees to receive prompt, quality medical care.
Keep employees at work, allowing the company to get meaningful, productive work done while the employee recovers.
雇员，雇员的医疗提供者，雇主和保险专家共同努力，以帮助员工尽快返回工作。

Health and Wellness Programs

One study found that half of all adults in the U.S. – 117 million people – have one or more chronic health conditions and/or illnesses²。常见的慢性健康状况可以包括但不限于肥胖，糖尿病，高血压和睡眠呼吸暂停。通过在工作场所提供健康计划，公司可以帮助创造更健康的劳动力，提高生产率并有可能降低医疗索赔的成本³。

健康和保健计划有两个关键组成部分：例如，通过提供信息来教育各种慢性病，并帮助员工通过促进健康的行为来帮助员工来识别和管理慢性健康状况。，例如运动和戒烟。有关启动工作场所健康计划的更多信息，请访问Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website。

当健康和保健计划根据特定劳动力或个人雇主的需求定制时，最有效。计划范围从减肥和健康饮食计划到现场流感诊所。员工还可以将他们在工作中学习的一些安全健康的行为带回家，以便他们可以在个人和职业生活中继续健康的生活。

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