Workplace Wellness

Indiana Healthy Worksite Toolkit

The Indiana Healthy Worksite Toolkit for Small Businesses, 2nd edition outlines strategic policies, environmental support and activities to provide your employees with opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity.

This guide is divided into five sections:

1. Assess your worksite
2. Enhance your environment
3. Promote your efforts
4. Reassess your efforts
5. Additional tools

IDOH also partners with the Indiana State Personnel Department’s Invest in Your Health, which utilizes department-level wellness champions to disseminate health insurance information, health promotion messages and other learning opportunities.

Food Service Guidelines

The Food Service Guidelines (FSGs), or nutrition standards, are guidelines for organizations and programs to create healthy eating and drinking environments in government-managed cafeterias, snack bars and vending machines. The guidelines can be applied to non-government settings as well, including universities, hospitals and worksite cafeterias or vending machines. The use of pricing incentives, promotional materials and food placement strategies is important for the implementation of the guidelines.

CDC Food Service Guidelines

The Health and Human Services and General Services Administration Guidelines aim to:

• Increase the healthy options available at cafeterias and vending machines
• Align food available at HHS and GSA facilities with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Inform customers about what they are eating and which choices are healthier and more sustainable
• Increase sustainability of HHS and GSA operations and support sustainable agricultural practices

Work@Health

Work@Health® is an employer-based training program that helps employers develop a basic skill set and capacity to build or enhance a science-based workplace health program.

The DNPA has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to become trained in the Work@Health Program. Workplaces that participate in this program will have access to six online modules and a half-day, in-person training covering the final two modules while being provided an opportunity to network with other workplaces. The modules are outlined below:

1. Make the Business Case
2. Assess the Worksite
3. Build Leadership Support
4. Develop Policy, Benefit, and Environmental Supports
5. Design Effective Communities
6. Evaluate the Program
7. Plan and Design the Program
8. Implement and Sustain the Program

Contact Lindsey Bouza at lbouza@health.in.gov if you are interested in this opportunity.