Representatives from NMU will be honored Oct.16 at a banquet in Lansing. The University has supported and promoted health and fitness at the work site since 1976. It created a group of seminars this past year for health promotion. Employees are able to take advantage of the University's Physical Education Instructional Facility free of charge and at reduced rates for dependants, spouses and retirees. As part of its employee tuition waiver, employees can opt to take any of a variety of health promotion courses like backpacking, hiking, rock climbing and cross-country skiing at no cost.
Employees also receive three different newsletters throughout the year.
Businesses nominated for the Health Workplace Awards must have shown outstanding commitment to the health of their employees by establishing creative work site healthy promotion programs with demonstrated success. The Gold Award recognizes workplaces that have sustained comprehensive programs in physical fitness, health and sports. Gold Award recipients must score at least 30 points from the self-assessment survey categories, have programs in place for at least two years, provide an incentive to employees to participate in wellness activities, and have at least 20 percent employee participation in at least two wellness activities during the past year. ThinkPad is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation.