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What You Can Do - At Work

• Form a team to identify new ways to support employee health.
• Ask employees about their interests and develop a written plan of new health strategies, including timeline, cost, and person responsible.
• Create an honor system healthy snack program with fruit, yogurt, string cheese, reduced fat milks, trail mix, and nuts.
• Post information on the Maine Tobacco HelpLine for coworkers who may be ready to stop smoking.
• Create indoor and outdoor walking routes and/or fitness trails around the grounds.
• Develop a written tobacco use policy with restrictions on smoking at entryways, in designated areas only, or banning smoking on grounds.
• Provide onsite blood pressure and cholesterol screening programs with referral.
• Start a walking group that walks before work, during breaks, and/or after work.

 

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