Every Friday we pass on a few health and safety resources we enjoyed throughout the week in a “Best of the Week” post.
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Health & Safety Links
The Business of Healthy Employees
HealthMiles
This year, in partnership with Workforce Managementmagazine, we surveyed 1,308 businesses and 9,918 employees to further understand the impact of health and wellness benefits, and to gain insight into how the landscape for health and wellness programs is changing year to year …
New Workplace Wellness Rules are all About Rewards
Knowledge at Work
Kudos to employers who offer employees health promotion programs, even when they are preaching to the choir or their message is falling on deaf ears. They believe in the value of prevention. The federal government’s newly issued final rules on workplace wellness programs provide some additional guidance. The rules, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2014 under provisions of the Affordable Care Act, outline parameters to provide Incentives for Nondiscriminatory Wellness Programs in Group Health Plans …
Office Workers Face Musculoskeletal Mayhem
EHS Today
Combine poor ergonomic habits with hours upon hours of desk work and limited employer-provided ergonomics education or solutions and you have the perfect recipe for musculoskeletal mayhem in the American work force …
From the Ergonomics Plus blog
From the Ergonomics Plus blog this week:
