Healthy Weight: Information for Worksites

Worksites can help employees eat smart and move more….and decrease their health costs and improve productivity! Worksites play a major role in obesity prevention, as many adults spend half of their waking hours on the job. The rising cost of employee health care has been a major challenge to employers, giving them a vested interest in the health of their employees.

What you should do

Offer opportunities for employees to adopt healthy eating habits

• Use CDC’s LEAN Works toolkit to develop and implement worksite policies and programs;
• Post healthy food options for meetings and events in your cafeteria and/of conference rooms;
• Adopt or adapt HEALTH's Eating at Events Policy
• Provide policy and environmental supports for breastfeeding mothers;
• Apply for a Breast-Feeding Friendly Workplace Award.

Offer opportunities for employees to be physically active

• Use CDC’s LEAN Works toolkit to develop and implement worksite policies and programs;
• Offer times during the work day for physical activity breaks; (more)
• Implement a physical activity policy at your worksite;
• Encourage using the stairs by implementing StairWELL to better health strategies;
• Sponsor a Shape Up RI worksite competition;
• Refer to the Eat Smart Move More worksite workbook;
• Contact us for support and technical assistance on safe active commuting to the workplace.