WorkWell 2011 ? Sampling of Activities : Workwell ? Providing ...

AAA Olympia

• Became a smoke free workplace.
• Participated as an office in the Warrior Dash
• Has a Pathways to Fitness Employee Intranet site with health and fitness logs, recipes, and tips for staying healthy.

Altman Insurance Agency

• Provides a fridge, microwave, toaster, and mini-blender along with a dining area for employees to use.
• Provides fruit bowl for the office
• Allows flexible work hours for employees to work out.

Beyond Medicine

• Has installed bike racks so employees can bike to work.
• Has a smoke-free workplace
• Provides a fully stocked lunchroom and kitchen for employees.

Calcara Family Chiropractic PS

• Provides healthy snacks to employees
• Allows employees to flex their schedules to exercise
• Give their employees free chiropractic care

City of Lacey

• Implemented a Healthful Meeting Guideline for all city sponsored meetings.
• Has monthly lunch time walks for employees
• Has a bike share program that allows employees to borrow a bicycle to commute to meetings or to use on their breaks for exercise.

City of Olympia

• Have 24 access to a fitness facility for employees.
• Has installed showers and locker rooms for employees to use at the City Hall.
• Sponsors a Get Out and Play ?Your Way campaign for employees

Foot and Ankle Associates

• Has a private room for lactation for employees and all new mothers to use.

Great Wolf Lodge

• Provides employees twice a year with a Family Day Water Park Pass good for up to six family members.
• Offers a discounted membership to a local gym.
• Allows employees to purchase food at a discounted price.

Harmony Hill of Union

• Allows staff to participate in on-site wellness programs at no charge.
• Had a nutrition expert come in and speak with staff at a series of lunches.
• Allows employees to attend yoga classes for free.

Higher Education Coordinating Board

• Provides umbrellas and walking maps for employees to use on breaks.
• Provides a monthly electronic newsletter to employees.
• Participated in their fourth annual biggest mover contest.

Hometown Property Management first year

• Has a wellness team that meets weekly.
• Has a treadmill for employee use on site along with exercise videos.
• Provides yoga/pilates classes for employees on site.

Intercity Transit

• Provides flu shots for all employees.
• Conducted a 10K step program for employees.
• Provides a monthly healthy snack for employees.

Jessica Jensen Law PA

• Provides healthy snacks at meetings and social events
• Allows flexible work schedules so employees can participate in physical activity.
• Has a shower and provides towels for employees.

KB Associates Bookkeeping LLC

• Adopted a highway in an effort to promote team building and physical activity.

Key Bank

• Supports employee involvement in local fitness events that promote health like the March of Dimes Walk for Babies.

Langel Chiropractic, P.S.

• Once a month gives a wellness talk.

LOTT Clean Water Alliance

• Sponsored Lunch and Learn sessions for employees on healthy nutrition.
• Has a gym membership subsidy for employees that pays up to $25/month for employees using local gyms.
• Sponsored the Mountain Climbing Campaign that had employees track their use of the stairs at work.

Natural Medicines & Family Practice

• Offers all employees updated health education information.

Nisqually Red Wind Casino

• Sponsored a fitness challenge for employees.
• Offers a quarterly incentive program where employees earn points for doing health activities and can earn various cash incentives.
• Has an on-going wellness program that continues to expand.

O Bee Credit Union

• Offers a wellness allowance for all employees to use on gym memberships, home gym equipment, fitness videos and software, and Weight Watcher dues.
• Has a monthly Vegetable of the Month and recipe in every employee newsletter.
• Hosted Fruit Fest this summer which made fresh fruit available free to staff at all branches two days per week

Olympia Federal Savings

• Sponsored an employee health fair.
• Sponsored a six month walking program for employees.
• Continued to offer healthier options at all employee meetings.

Port of Olympia

• Sponsored a poker walk for employees to get out and move.
• Offers a smoking cessation reimbursement program that pays for the successful completion of a program after being smoke-free for 6 months, it also reimburses employee?s spouses.
• Has purchased bikes for cycling between port offices.

ProActive SportsMed

• Provides healthier options for foods/beverages at all staff meetings.
• Allows flexible work hours for employees to exercise.

Providence St. Peter Hospital

• Offered employees several different physical activity challenges in which they gave prizes to local health and fitness retailers.
• Has an active bicycling club and also offers free memberships to local bike clubs to employees and their families.
• Has a monthly employee wellness newsletter highlighting fitness, nutrition, and other wellness topics.

South Sound Senior Services

• Offers a quarterly drawing to employees who make healthy choices for a free massage.
• Employees may join any fitness classes being offered for free.
• Sponsored a biggest loser contest for staff.

TAGS/Williams Group

• Allows flex time to accommodate workouts
• Paid for staff to participate in the PuddleJump 5K/10K
• Offer healthy food choices at staff meetings

The Alpine Experience

• Pays for entrance fees for employees who are training for fitness events.
• Allow all employees to use the kayaks, skis, snowboards, and climbing equipment and indoor climbing gym free of charge.

Thurston County

• Launched an employee health resource webpage on their employee intranet.
• Uses the Fit Pick vending program to promote healthier food choices in the county vending machines.
• Provides a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program for all employees of the county.

Thurston County Chamber of Commerce

• Provides healthy snacks for employee meetings.
• Has office exercise equipment including new hula hoops which provide exercise and chuckles.
• Encourages use of the stairs instead of the elevator.

Tumwater Chiropractor Center

• Installed lockers in their office to support employees who exercise or ride their bikes to work.
• Sponsored a team for Intercity Transit?s Bike to Work month.

Washington Business Bank

• Provided a new fridge and toaster ovens for employees to use.
• Pays a part of employees gym membership as a benefit.
• Sponsored employees to participate in the PuddleJump 5K/10K. 85% of staff participated!

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