Worksite Wellness Plan Data

What is Worksite Wellness Plan data?

Worksite Wellness Plan data is information that is collected about your Workplace Wellness Program. All Workplace Wellness Programs should include data as an integral part of the Worksite Wellness Plan plan.

Why should you care about Worksite Wellness Plan data?

Data tells the Wellness story. Data is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.

Building data into Workplace Wellness Programs

Why bother with Worksite Wellness Plan Data?

You need Worksite Wellness Plan data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Worksite Wellness Plan is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Workplace Wellness Program.
• Offer information to Upper Management about the impact of the Workplace Wellness Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Worksite Wellness Plan resources.
• Use Worksite Wellness Plan resources efficiently and market your Worksite Wellness Plan more effectively.

Where to begin collecting Worksite Wellness Plan data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how information will be collected.
• Determine what information is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o By way of example: use dairy sales information in the dining facility to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Start collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be creative!
o By way of example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates

IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Worksite Wellness Plan data.

Innovative Worksite Wellness Plan data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Worksite Wellness Plan information.
• If your company has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns begin the data collection plan for your Workplace Wellness Program.
• Use information to let upper management know about the Workplace Wellness Programs affect on the staff members.

Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use creative follow-up strategies to get information. Phone calls can be effective, but also consider email, mailed surveys with return postage provided, and going to the units in person to collect the information.
• Make data collection ‘fun’ for Worksite Wellness Plan members.
o By way of example: use a team approach – the team with the ‘best’ overall results gets some sort of award or recognition.
• ALWAYS relate the impact of your Worksite Wellness Plan to readiness.