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As companies consider how to help employees stay healthier, it often makes sense to look consider making the actual work conditions safer, as well.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention writes that “Workplace health promotion programs are more likely to be successful if occupational safety and health is considered in their design and execution, In fact, a growing body of evidence indicates that workplace-based interventions that take coordinated, planned, or integrated approaches to reducing health threats to workers both in and out of work are more effective than traditional isolated programs. Integrating or coordinating occupational safety and health with health promotion may increase program participation and effectiveness and may also benefit the broader context of work organization and environment.”

The CDC offers four steps:

• An assessment to define employee health risks and concerns and describe current health promotion activities, capacity and needs
• A planning process to develop the components of a workplace health programs including goal determination; selecting priority interventions; and building an organizational infrastructure
• Program implementation involving all the steps needed to put health promotion strategies and interventions into place and making them available to employees
• An evaluation of efforts to systematically investigate the merit (e.g., quality), worth (e.g., effectiveness), and significance (e.g., importance) of an organized health promotion action/activity

The CDC provides a model for a Workplace Health Program as well.