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Why Participate?
The Prevention 1st Challenge provides a set of on-line strategic tools and resources that businesses can use to improve employee
health and reduce healthcare costs by creating and maintaining policies and environments that support healthy eating,
physical activity, and quitting tobacco use.
Every year, medical care and lost productivity from obesity, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and tobacco use cost
employers an average of $5000 per employee.
Read Healthy Employees Create Healthy Businesses: A Guide to Help Employers Reduce Health Care Costs to learn more about the importance of employee health and reducing healthcare costs.
Tools of the Challenge
The primary tools of the Prevention 1st Challenge include:
Prevention Audit: This tool enables a business to assess its existing nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use policies and environments. Access to the audit at four intervals throughout a 12-month period allows businesses to evaluate their progress.
Prevention Report Card: The Prevention Audit results in a Prevention Report Card with grades in physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use that reflect the business’ responses on the audit. These tools enable your business to obtain immediate feedback on existing prevention policies and environments and to establish a prevention baseline.
(Learn more about grades.)
Prevention Plan Guides, Quick Start Steps, & Progress Check Guides: The Prevention Plan Guide, Quick Start Steps, and Progress Check Guides provide guidance and resources for businesses to create and evaluate a strategic plan to improve their Prevention Report Card grades and to support employee health.
In addition, participating businesses will receive
Email prompts at 4-month intervals reminding business to complete the next Prevention Audit.
An end-of-year final report showing the percent of employees that participated, an aggregate report of health goals selected by employees, and a grades summary from the four Prevention Report Cards.
Worksite Implementation Plan
Getting Started:
First, establish a worksite health promotion / wellness team. The members of this team will complete the
Prevention Audits; lead the creation of needed policies, programs, and supportive environments; and promote and communicate changes and wellness opportunities to employees.
Step 1: Log in to your Prevention 1st Challenge account to preview the Prevention Audit questions and to tour the website.
Step 2:
--Identify an individual team member (manager, HR director, wellness coordinator, or other person) who will complete the Prevention Audit throughout the year (4 times during a 12-month period*).
--Complete a Prevention Audit and receive your first Prevention Report Card.
Step 3: Have a wellness team meeting to view Prevention Report Card grades to identify priority prevention areas.
Step 4: Use the Prevention Plan Guides, Sample Policies, and Quick Start Steps & Resources in the Prevention Toolboxes to develop a strategic plan to reach the following goals:
Goal 1: Increase Physical Activity among Employees
Goal 2: Improve Nutrition among Employees
Goal 3: Support Tobacco Cessation among Employees
(The Prevention Toolboxes are on the Prevention Report Card page, which you will gain access to after completing your first Prevention Audit.)
Step 5: Put your plan into action. Be sure to communicate and promote new programs, policies, and any other resulting worksite changes to employees. Employees should be informed of policy changes well in advance of their implementation.
Step 6: Evaluate progress toward meeting your objectives and reaching your goals through the following ways:
--Evaluate progress at any time using the Progress Check Guides located in the Prevention Toolboxes.
--Evaluate progress at 4-month intervals by completing another Prevention Audit to receive an updated
Prevention Report Card that reflects progress that has been made.
Step 7:
--Modify your Prevention Plans using feedback from subsequent Prevention Audits and updated Prevention Report Cards, and from Progress Checks.
--Repeat Steps 4 through 6.
*Your worksite will be prompted to complete a Prevention Audit at 4-month intervals throughout a 12-month period. At the end of the year, your worksite will receive an end-of-year report.
Why should a business encourage employees to sign up for the Challenge?
Employee participation in the Challenge provides employers with information about which behaviors—physical activity, nutrition, and / or tobacco use—their employees are most interested in working on. This information can help businesses tailor worksite wellness programs.
By encouraging employees to sign up for the Challenge, employers can help employees to make similar changes at home. Supportive environments at both work and at home can help individual employees change their behaviors.
What is the cost of participating in the Challenge?
Fee Schedule for Non-Member Businesses
1 to 99 employees = $100
100 to 499 employees = $200
500 or more employees = $300
Member Businesses have access to the Challenge as a benefit of membership.
Benefits of Membership
Membership Form
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