2. INTRODUCING
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Building an Active Work Culture
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3. Traditional Health & Wellness Strategies
Healthy Gains for the Business
Person Better Employee
Health Status
Life Expectancy
• Treat Disease and Decreased Health Costs
• Behavior Change Productivity
Lifestyle Work Comp
Change Safety
Absenteeism
Presenteeism
Company Image
Recruitment
Health and
Disease Management Retention
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4. Traditional Health & Wellness Strategies
 Wait for Disease or Health Risk and
then fix them
OR
 Wait for defects and then fix them
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5. The New Wellness Paradigm
Great Place to Work
Create a
Thriving Gains in Organizational
Workplace • Put Health and Wellbeing
Objectives
Work force • Into the Business Culture
Health Status
• Senior Leadership
Economics
• Operations Absenteeism
Create a Presenteeism
Supportive • Self Leadership
Work Comp
Culture • Recognition of Positive Acts
Engagement
• Quality Assurance
Retention
Company Image
Create a Vision And Strategy Sustainability
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6. We are a sitting culture
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7. Ergonomic Risk Factors
Force - the amount of physical effort required to
perform a given task
Repetition - performing the same motion or series of
motions continually or frequently
Awkward postures – assuming positions that place
stress on the body
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8. Personal Factors
Some non-work related factors to keep in mind...
 Inactivity
 Smoking
 Weight /Body mass index
 Age
 Gender
 Diabetes and hypothyroid
 Orthopedic issues
 Fatigue / Lack of sleep
 Anxiety and depression
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9. Activity and Wellness
Fitting Activity into an Overall Wellness Plan
 Activity is a necessity, not an option
 Make activity a convenience
 The world is you gym!
 Take the stairs
 Walking meetings
 Limit use of inter office e-mail and telephone
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10. NEAT Examples (200 Kcals / hour)
 Cleaning up clutter  Washing the car
 Laundry  Gardening
 Painting walls  Walking
 Vacuuming  Wii (active)
 Sweeping  Watching TV on
 Mowing the lawn  Bicycle
 Raking leaves  Treadmill
 Elliptical trainer
 Shoveling snow
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11. Activity Motivators
What motivates you to be active?
 If it’s not fun, you won’t do it
 Intrinsic motivation
 Fear based motivation, does not last
 Choose something people like to do
 Find or reserve time for activity
 Choose a regular time
 Be creative
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12. Set-up Walking Routes at Work
Pros:
Simple
Inexpensive
Visible
Walking and Active Meeting
Routes with four different
distances to choose from.

13. OMC Walking Routes
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14. New “Stairway to Wellness”
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15. Stand Up or Walking Desk
Pros: Cons:
Gets the job done Who gets them?
Expensive
Need to know how to use them
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16. Sit-Stand Workstations
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17. Activity in Manufacturing
Pros:
Inexpensive
Gets high risk group
Cons:
Hard sell
Acceptance
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18. The Art of Standing
 Staggered Stance
 Slight Bend in the Knees
 Get a Foot Up
 Move!!!!
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19. We are a sitting culture
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20. Space Walks / Sleeping
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21. The Art of Sitting
 Get as close to neutral as possible
 Keep the trunk in a neutral position
 Move!
 Move!
 Move!
 Move!
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22. Active Shopping
Dairy Fresh Meat
Fresh Vegetables and Fruits
Organic Frozen
House
Bakery
and Canned Cereal Snacks Section
(Use (Use Hold
Ethnic Goods Caution!) Caution!)
(Vegeta
Supplies
Foods bles)
Cashiers
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23. Creating an Active Environment
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24. Activity-based Wellness – Up or Down
The Upward Spiral The Downward Spiral
…the more you do, the …the less you do, the less
better you feel, and the energy you have and the
more energy you have; worse you feel, so the less
so the more you do… you do…
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25. Take Away’s
 There all kinds of opportunity for movement and
activity through out the day
 Make activity convenient and fun
 The world is your gym!
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26. THANK YOU
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