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Are rising health care costs a worry at your workplace?
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More reliable tools are needed to measure the costs of presenteeism, which takes an insidious toll on the work place.
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"Presenteeism is a measure of productivity. It can be gauged in a number of ways," says Margie Weiss, PhD, CEO and community health advocate at the Weiss Health Group, a Neenah, WI-based consulting company that works with companies and communities on health and wellness.
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Incentives for wellness program participation is becoming more common, but "it can be challenging to settle on the optimal design," according to Daniel Buckalew, a health coaching program manager for Minneapolis-based Ceridian, a global business services company.
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Robin Alegria, RN, COHN-S, an occupational health nurse at Baxter Healthcare in Thousand Oaks, CA, says that occupational health can and should play a role in more accurately measuring workplace safety.
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As an occupational health professional, you already possess a wealth of knowledge on the importance of a safe work environment, and the necessary skills to address pertinent safety issues.
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This is a two-part series on occupational health's role in preventing recordkeeping violations. This month, we report on your role in improving compliance, and identify some of the specific violations that can occur in workplaces.
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New and better tools are needed to measure employee productivity, according to a new position paper.
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Today's employers are looking very closely at both direct healthcare expenditures and indirect costs associated with absenteeism, presenteeism, and disability.
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta asked its employees to take steps to better health. A billion steps, to be exact.
