Workplace Health and Safety

Create goals and objectives

Objectives are general guidelines that explain what you want to achieve. Objectives define strategies or steps to take to attain the identified goal.

A wellness program should’ve a “destination”. Use the results of your surveys and your wellness committee’s mission statement as guides. Consider these ideas -

o  Focus on making medical information and learning resources readily available to staff

o  Focus on group activities so workers can work together to support and encourage healthier life choices

o  Develop a wellness program that is visible to both workers and to your customers

o  Focus on written policies and guidelines

o  Make sure to set goals for your wellness program.

Review Guidelines for Writing Goals.

Health Promotion Program Objectives Should be

Specific – A goal is specific when it provides a description of what will be accomplished. It’ll state exactly what the corporation intends to accomplish.

It ought to be written so that it can be easily and obviously communicated. A specific goal will make it easier for those writing goals and action plans to address the following questions -

o  Who’s to be involved?

o  What is to be accomplished?

o  Where is it to be done?

o  When’s it to be done?

Measurable – A goal is measurable if it’s quantifiable.  To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions like – How much? How many? How’ll I know when it’s accomplished?

Attainable – You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Objectives that might have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable.

Realistic – Realistic, means “do-able.” the goal needs to be realistic for your business and where the business is at the moment.

A goal to take out all the high fat items in the vending machine might not be realistic for your business right now; a better goal would be to substitute some chips, candy bars and pies for pretzels, yogurt and dried fruit.

Timely – In conclusion, a goal must have a timeframe –  for next week, in three months, by age 35. It must have a starting and ending point. It should also have some intermediate points at which progress may be assessed.

Limiting the time in which a goal must be accomplished assists to focus effort toward its achievement. If you don’t set a time, the commitment is too vague. It tends not to happen because you feel you can begin at any time. Without a time limit, there’s no urgency to begin taking action now.