Evaluate your healthy active workplace program
Evaluating your health and wellbeing program allows you to assess the impact of your program on the organisation.
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It will help to provide you with evidence as to what the program has achieved and will indicate areas that need to be improved.
Why, What, How?
Why evaluate?
- To prove your program's worth over time
- To identify problem areas
- To promote the longevity and sustainability of your program
What to evaluate?
- Behaviour change
- Health/lifestyle risk factors
- Absenteeism
- Staff turnover
- Staff satisfaction
- What worked and what didn't work
How to evaluate?
- Determine what it is that you are measuring
- Choose a measurement tool that best reflects this
- Measure at regular intervals
- Provide feedback and re-visit goals, objectives and action plans
Evaluation techniques
Measuring your outcomes
Depending on your objectives, you will use different measurement tools. Many of the evaluations you undertook in order to ‘Assess the Current Environment' can serve as evaluation tools.
Some examples of different measurement tools that you could use:
Staff participating in the program
Activity logImproved health and wellbeing
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Reduction in absenteeism and workers' compensation
Record Keeping
Specific Targets
Throughout the year, you should aim to achieve your key outcomes as identified at the beginning of the project.
Project Coordinator Records
Keeping regular records will help you remember what you have done throughout the year. This will make it much easier when it is time to evaluate your program.
Organisational Statistics
It is also essential that you monitor and record key performance measures including organisational statistics such as absenteeism, turnover and workers compensation claims. This data can be used to make the case for a workplace health program in the future if need be.
Risk Management
Risk management assists your decision-making processes. Some good reasons to manage risks include:
- Reduces unexpected and costly surprises
- More effective and efficient allocation of resources
- Better results from projects and programs
- Lessening risk encourages more people to take part
- Assist you to obtain insurance cover
Risk Management is a five-step process:
Step 1: Establish the context
Step 2: Identify the risk
Step 3: Assess the risks
Step 4: Treat the risks
Step 5: Ongoing monitoring and review
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