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Healthy People, Healthy Places. Cindy M. Bush, OTR Risk Management Consultant Bailey, Haskell & LaLonde Partners in Managing Risk. Risk Management Division.
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Healthy People, Healthy Places Cindy M. Bush, OTR Risk Management Consultant Bailey, Haskell & LaLonde Partners in Managing Risk
Risk Management Division “I’ve often said that the primary job of a coach is to get people to do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.” Tom Landry
We believe… To Provide Value, We must Help Employers Protect their most Valuable Asset, Employees Healthy People deliver better Products & Services. In Putting the Resources as close to the People as possible. If Employees have to be Fit for Duty, the Job must be Fit to Do. To Impact Worker’s Habits, the Business needs to Change too.
Cascading Effect of Managing WC Costs Lowers cost of Insurance Lowers cost of doing Business Lowers cost to the Community Lowers cost to the Family Lowers cost to the Employee
We Have a ProblemFor every 100 employees in America: • 77Have Poor • Nutrition Habits • 68Do Not Exercise • Regularly • 59Are Overweight • or Obese • 34Have High • Cholesterol 25Smoke 17Binge Drink 10Have Depression 9Have Diabetes 8Have had a Heart Attack or Stroke
If we can improve these behaviors… The Rewards are ENORMOUS
To Prevent Work-Related Deaths, Injuries & Illnesses • Demystify OSHA through the access to easy to use, ready to implement tools to build compliance. • Teach best work practices, and coach safe habits. • Work with Employers to Look at Accidents & Near Misses. • Bring Wellness to the Workplace • Help Employers Fit the Job to the Worker Think Able-Body Accommodation
Model for Success in the Workplace Programs must be: Visible Proactive On-Demand Convenient One on One Customized
“First We Form Habits, Then They Form Us.Conquer Your Bad Habits, or They’ll Eventually Conquer You.” Dr. Rob Gilbert