Implementing effective health and wellbeing programs
Further information
- Designing and implementing an effective health and wellbeing program
- Undertake a needs assessment before implementing a health and wellbeing program
- Design your health and wellbeing program carefully
- Create a support system for your health and wellbeing program
- Implement your health and wellbeing program
- Evaluate and monitor your health and wellbeing program
For any health and wellbeing program to be effective, an organisation must first understand the:
- demographics of the employees
- the key risks to the organisation
- how to tailor the program to their needs.
To continue the success and sustainability of the program, it needs to be regularly monitored and evaluated.
Options for health and wellbeing programs
Given the array of potential programs you could implement, it can be a challenge to identify the most suitable program for your organisation. It can also be challenging to assess the validity of available programs and be sure that they represent a best practice approach to improving health and wellbeing. See our resources below for help.
- Comcare’s Weight Management Programs at Work brochure provides an evidence-based overview of workplace approaches to improving the health and wellbeing of individuals in the workplace.
- Comcare is offering Health and Wellbeing Coordinator Training across Australia to provide workplace coordinators with the knowledge and skills to implement effective and comprehensive workplace health and wellbeing programs.