Before launching your Worksite Physical Activity Program, summarize the information you’ve gathered and plan your next steps.
At this point, you have
• gained support from senior management for the Worksite Physical Activity Program
• formed an worker committee
• assessed what is possible in your worksite
• found out what staff members want and need in a Worksite Physical Activity Program.
Based on this information, you’re now ready to create your action plan to increase exercise at your worksite.
With the staff member committee, take the following steps.
• Combine the results of the worker survey with the worksite environmental assessment, and report to upper-level management and employees.
• Prioritize the possibilities at each of the “levels” (individual, social, organizational, community, policy) in the workplace listed in “Keys to Success”. for example, suppose a large group of employees show an interest in biking to work.
Since these people may want to shower and change after their commute each day, you might give showers and changing facilities priority in your workplace. Bike racks could also be important for making employees’ bikes secure during the workday.
• Consult the list of practical suggestions found this website.
• Develop a mission statement (one which aligns with your company’s overall mission statement) to define your purpose and help guide your process. Establishing objectives and objectives will help you reachyour mission statement.
• Put together a plan or blueprint addressing what you have learned. Make health promotion program and activity recommendations with timelines, identify resources and assign responsibilities. Revisit the list of tasks outlined in “Step 2 – Forming an Worker Committee.” Seek executive management approval to move ahead.
• Once your initiative is in place, it is important to promote it to workforce. Organizing a launch is a good way to do this. A formal launch also demonstrates executive management commitment. If workforce don’t know about the initiative, they cannot take advantage of it!
• Decide what you need to track to show that you’ve reached your goals. Measure these factors before you begin. This way, when you evaluate later, you will know when there has been a change.
