The Wellness Blog

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Workplace Wellness- Shared Safety: The New Connection Between Safety and Wellness

2 days ago
2 min

Workplace Wellness- Shared Safety: The New Connection Between Safety and Wellness

Ensuring a safe and healthy workplace not only prevents injury and illness, and the costs related to both, but also reduces absenteeism and turnover, increases productivity and work quality, and improves employee morale. In other words, safety is good for business. Furthermore, the integration of safety and wellness, with the promotion of positive well-being, is even better for business. Well-being at work means employees are working in conditions that promote mental and

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Wellness Workdays

Apr 18
4 min

Construction Tabling How To’s

Worksite wellness programs offer construction companies the ability to raise awareness around worker safety through providing greater accessibly to health and wellness resources, focusing on primary prevention, and educating workers on all aspects of their health. However, with this industry comes the challenges of high employee-turnover, limited computer use, language barriers and lack of time to participate during the workday, which can make it difficult to provide successf

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Turner Construction’s Onsite Wellness Program Celebrates its First Successful Year

Wellness Workdays

Jan 18
2 min

Turner Construction’s Onsite Wellness Program Celebrates its First Successful Year

Turner Construction recently concluded the first year of deploying Wellness Workdays’ Wellness Trailer 2.0 program, a concept which aims to provide health and wellness resources for all employees and subcontractors on a job site. The overarching program goal acknowledges the historical gap between employee health risks and job site injuries: for many years, the industry’s chronic health issues, both mental and physical, have been tied to workplace distraction and increased

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Wellness Workdays

Aug 18, 2021
1 min

Wellness Workdays Featured in Engineering News-Record

Mental Health is more important now than ever. As part of an industry-wide effort to destigmatize mental health issues, construction is partnering with safety professionals to promote and focus on overall safety and wellness! Learn more about how Wellness Workdays, Columbia Construction, and others are bringing Mental Health resources to the jobsite. Read the full article here. #wellness #safety #mentalhealth #construction #wellbeing #employeehealth

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Shared Safety: The New Connection Between Safety and Wellness

Wellness Workdays

Apr 20, 2021
2 min

Shared Safety: The New Connection Between Safety and Wellness

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Wellness Workdays

Feb 18, 2021
1 min

Employee Well-being - Debra Wein, CEO of Wellness Workdays Featured in Site-K Construction Zone

Proactive Behavioral Health Approaches for Construction. No one can argue that 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic have created major stressor

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Wellness Workdays

Nov 19, 2020
1 min

Turner Construction Company Selects Wellness Workdays to Reimagine Safety and Well-being

Wellness Workdays been selected by Turner Construction Company to reimagine safety and well-being initiatives for its workers and employees

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Worksite Wellness Conference to Address Barriers to Well-being in Blue Collar Workers

Wellness Workdays

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

Worksite Wellness Conference to Address Barriers to Well-being in Blue Collar Workers

Are blue collar workers more active than their white-collar counterparts? The answer is mixed as Scandinavian research has found that while construction trades people’s jobs impart short bursts of moderately high activity, that activity does not improve cardiovascular fitness or help maintain body habitus or control weight. Further, this population of workers thinks they’re getting sufficient exercise but are not as demonstrated by research performed in Boston, which had cons

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