Often employers fail to realize that by being insensitive to employees needs, they can create unhealthy workplaces and stress for their employees. Unfortunately, there are no quantifiable data to show financial benefits to workplaces. In the US, where the employer pays for health care costs through private insurance, significant savings can be shown. Employers can identify the individuals who use health care often, monitor or modify that individual's behaviour, and realize an almost instant cost benefit. In Canada, where the state pays most health care costs, employers are not concerned with these expenses.
Few employers recognize how simple and inexpensive changes in health policy can be.
For example, a sign designating preferred parking for pregnant employees is almost cost free. It conveys a corporate value that the organization cares about the employees and their families. The greatest risk lies with occupations that involve prolonged standing and exertion, such as sales, service, medicine, nursing, social service and labour jobs. Safe exposure levels have not been adequately determined. Description Best Start staff searched for successful workplace health promotion programs to replicate in Barrie.