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Strategies for Improving Employee Health & Productivity
When:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
7:30am - 10:00am
Where:
Weber's Inn
3050 Jackson Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Registration is required but attendance is FREE
With health care costs escalating, it pays to take a proactive approach to improving
employee health and productivity. This briefing will look at three strategies that can be used alone or in combination
to control health care costs, reduce lost work days, reduce work-related injuries, and improve productivity. The session
will also offer a case study illustrating the success of a collaborative approach to improving employee health.
Research shows that companies with evidence-based wellness programs can expect to achieve between a three and six to one
return on their investment after an average of 3.6 years. But what makes a wellness program effective? Speaking from
experience and using the latest health promotion research, Alisa Morningstar, MFit’s associate director will discuss the
characteristics of effective wellness programs.
Wellness programs are a key long-term strategy for improving employee health. Controlling workers’ comp. and disability
costs and helping employees remain at work, recover, and return to work in a safe and timely manner is a shorter term
strategy for reducing costs and improving productivity. Trish Klamert, MWorks’ manager of disability management, will
discuss the role of an on-site health and disability manager in reducing disability costs, time away from work and
promoting self-responsibility for healthy behavior.
A third important strategy is reducing injuries by creating a safe and ergonomically friendly work environment.
Ms. Klamert will also discuss common worksite ergonomic ‘no-no’s’ that MWorks occupational therapists frequently see and
give examples of low-cost corrections.
Our final speaker is Rolando Croocks, director of the U-M Health System’s Laundry Services department. Two years ago,
because of high rates of injuries and lost work days, Laundry Services was targeted to pilot an employee health improvement
program using the above strategies. Mr. Croocks will share the success of the program and the role it played in Laundry
Services being named 2007 UMHS Support Services program of the year.
For more information call 734-975-3030
This program has been approved for 2.25 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification
through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).
The use of this seal in not an endorsement by HRCI for the quality of the program. It means that this program has
met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
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