Posted By PPMA,
Thursday, September 9, 2021
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Incorporating foot care into your company wellness program helps your employees be safer, healthier, and happier.
Proper footware is important for any lifestyle, but even more so when a person's job requires them to stand or complete high-energy activity for most of the day. These include careers in construction, food service, housekeeping, landscaping, and more. Construction workers or landscapers need protective shoes to keep them safe on jobsites and socks that keep their feet dry in the summer and warm in the winter. Food service and housekeeping staffs need shoes that provide them support and comfort for brisk walking throughout the whole day without injury or pain.
In many career paths, proper footware is key for employees to perform their job properly, safely, and comfortably.Having a healthy foot care routine is helpful in preventing infection and injury, which means decreased chance for emergency room visits.
By incorporating foot care education into your wellness program, your employees will better understand how to take care of their feet and reduce pain or potential future issues. Some topics to consider are choosing the right shoes, caring for blisters, causes of foot pain, and/or the connection between foot care and diabetes.Each of your employees have hobbies and interests they enjoy outside of work. Their ability to enjoy those activities (like running, hiking, sports, cooking, fishing, dancing, taking their kids to the park, etc) affects their mindset at work. When someone is unable to participate in a hobby that brings them fulfillment and joy because of foot pain, their self-esteem can lower and may even suffer from depression.
By helping your employees take steps to stay involved with the things they love, you're helping them take care of their mental health too.
How to incoroprate foot care into your wellness programCommunicate the importance of foot careIt is important for employees to understand the purpose each topic included in your wellness program. The Harvard Business Review article "
How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan that Actually Works" states, "...leaders at companies with successful programs establish a healthy work environment by integrating health into the organization’s overall vision and purpose." Let your employees know that footcare is improtant for their safety, health, and happiness, which impacts their life inside and outside of work.Collaborate with a local podiatrist
In The Balance Careers' article "11 Steps to Start a Corporate Employee Wellness Program
", it is encouraged to "connect multiple local wellness vendors to provide services like onsite massage therapy and healthy cooking demos, or products like discounted wellness gear." Use PPMA's Find a Podiatrist search page
to locate a podiatrist near you. You can then build a relationship with your local podiatrists to develop workshops, offerings, resources, or Lunch and Learns to educate and help your staff about foot health.Are you in the Central PA area? Check out
Wellness@Work through Partnership for Better Health to get started with creating a wellness program at your company!
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