Steps 3-5: Assess and Evaluate, Get Actionable Feedback, Plan and Prioritize Action
The next three steps have similar resources available and are located below.
Step 3: Assess and Evaluate your worksite using the tools below. If you don't know where you're at, you won't know where to start!
Step 4: Get Actionable Feedback by reviewing the results of your assessment. Share the information with your worksite wellness committee and get feedback from employees by using interest and feedback surveys.
Step 5: Plan and Prioritze Actions by using the feedback from Step 4. Your MSU Extension coach can help you prioritize actions to best meet your needs and be realistic and accomplishable. You can improve your workplace health with many no- to low-cost solutions. See resources in step 6.
Assessments
Designing Healthy Environments at Work Assessment (DHEW)
Summary: The DHEW is the main evaluation tool for MSU Extension coaches to use as a pre and post survey to measure our impact. It is easiest for worksites to utilize the print version to answer the questions and then set up an account and input the information onto the web version.
Source: Michigan Wellness Council
Print Access: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/DHEW_printversion.pdf
Online Form Access: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/Register.asp
DHEW Assessment Instruction Guide: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/DHEW_Instructions.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Assessment Webpage
Summary: Webpage from the CDC about basic assessment information for workplace health promotion. Provides some background information on assessments.
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Accessibility: http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/assessment/index.html
Employee Interest Surveys
Employee Interest Survey
Summary: This employee interest survey provides questions related to the DHEW assessment and allows for employers to distribute these surveys via email.
Source: Michigan Wellness Council
Access: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/EIS_PrintVersion.pdf
DHEW Employee Interest Survey Instruction Guide: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/EIS_Instructions.pdf
Borrego Springs Unified School District Worksite Wellness Individual Interest Survey
Summary: A PDF survey created for the Borrego Springs Unified School District. Questions could be modified to create a customized assessment.
Source: Directors of Health Promotion and Education
Employee Feedback Survey
Summary: This employee feedback survey provides questions to assess how employees felt about certain events. These can be distributed via email.
Source: Michigan Wellness Council
Access: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/efs_printversion.pdf
Access: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/efs_printversion.pdf
DHEW Employee Feedback Survey Instruction Guide: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/EFS_Instructions.pdf
Action Planning
Designing Healthy Environments at Work Assessment (DHEW) Action Plan Worksheet
Summary: A guide to create an action plan for each best practive on the DHEW
Source: Michigan Wellness Council
Accessibility: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/ActionPLan_PrintVersion.pdf
DHEW Action Plans Instruction Guide: http://www.mihealthtools.org/work/documents/ActionPlan_Instructions.pdf
Workplace Health Promotion Implementation Webpage
Summary: Webpage from the CDC about the basic implementation information for workplace health promotion. Provides background information on implementation.
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Accessibility: http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/implementation/index.html
Employee Health Privacy
Understanding Health Information Privacy Webpage
Summary: This webpage contains information about the rules regarding health information privacy.
Source: US Department of Health and Human Services
Access: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html
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