2010 Healthy Workplace Awards

The Healthy Workplace Award is a dynamic partnership between Get Active Orlando, We Care Magazine & local businesses, structured to maximize opportunities for promoting health in the workplace. The award is open to all organizations regardless of business size or sector, and brings the benefit of acknowledgement for exceptional workplace practices.

The inaugural Healthy Workplace Awards, sponsored by Get Active Orlando (GAO) to recognize Central Florida’s healthiest workplaces, attracted 25 area businesses and organizations touting their healthy initiatives for their respective employees. Here are the winners, which along with all applicants, will be formally recognized at Orlando City Hall, August 11 at 5:30 p.m.

First Place - Gold Division: City of Orlando

The City of Orlando has set the gold standard for employee health and wellness practices. A trendsetter in this arena, the city has had an employee wellness program in place since 1984. It staffs a full time Wellness Coordinator, free online health coaching, and a medical staff that provides individual consultations. In addition, more than 32 employee volunteers, dubbed Wellness Champions, are spread throughout the city “championing” the healthy workplace cause.

First Place – Silver Division: City of Casselberry

One way to get employees on the health-conscious bandwagon is offering cold, hard cash. City employees can earn $50-$200 for meeting preset goals as part of the city’s Health Incentive Program in partnership with Florida Hospital. Employees are benchmarked and then work toward certain healthier lifestyle goals.

First Place – Bronze Division: Orlando Regional Realtor Association

The Orlando Regional Realtor Association (ORRA) is relatively new to employee health initiatives, recently forming its first Employee Wellness Committee to develop healthy programs. ORRA conducts bi-monthly wellness meetings to discuss healthy living practices and hosts personal training seminars for employees.

On August 11, Get Active Orlando celebrated healthy workplace award winners and applicants at a special recognition event at City Hall. Mayor Buddy Dyer was on hand to congratulate applicants.  A barbershop quartet was there to serenade everyone and attendees participated in cha cha, zumba and swing demonstrations!

Purpose of the Get Active Orlando Healthy Workplace Awards
Being healthy doesn’t guarantee a longer life, it means getting the most out of life. The Get Active Orlando Healthy Workplace Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of businesses in Central Florida that have demonstrated a commitment to their employees’ health and have implemented worksite health promotion strategies. The awards are designed to recognize organizations for their efforts to foster employee health and well being while enhancing organizational performance.

Why Apply For The Get Active Orlando Healthy Workplace Awards?
Receiving a Get Active Orlando Healthy Workplace Award can give your organization the recognition it deserves for the value you place on creating a positive work environment. Award winners may be featured in the media, honored at special award events and recognized by community leaders.  

Why Should Your Company Participate In A Healthy Workplace?
A comprehensive approach to managing a healthy workplace recognizes the need for an overall health policy, a policy that conveys corporate values and support for employee health and provides the context for consistent direction across the organization. Having healthy employees is an important part of doing good business, and good leaders are sensitive to potential impacts on employee health when making business decisions. Successful organizations realize managing health within the workplace is an important management function, and that the results of these efforts have a direct impact on competitiveness and the bottom line.

Congratulations to these 2010 healthy workplaces:
Florida Nurses Association
Fritz Communications
Seminole County Government
Solantic (South Orange Avenue)
City of Casselberry
Orlando Health
The Salt Room
City of Orlando
Cuhaci & Peterson Architects Engineers and Planners
Averett Warmus Durkee
Orlando Police Department
Schenk™ Company
Dairy Farmers, Inc.
Valencia Community College
Orlando Brewing Company
Total Medical Solutions
Orlando Regional Realtor® Association
American Heart Association - Greater Orlando
Health Central
Orlando VA Medical Center
Orange County Health Department
Martial Arts Center for Health
Orange County
Nemours Children\'s Clinic
Colonial High School
Children's Home Society

Thank you to our sponsors: We Care magazine and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. 

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