Every responsible corporate organization’s vision should be to protect their company’s most important resource-the employees. This should be their citizenship effort to save lost time injuries, and make their companies safe.

Of recent, there has been an increase in various kinds of health related problems, owing to stress, environmental pollution, climate change, unhealthy lifestyle, and irregular health checks. This health related threats have adversely affected employees, and the employers of labor. Therefore, corporate organizations should have a consistent, comprehensive health surveillance program as her commitment to employees to reduce rate of occupational injuries, deaths and illnesses.

Health surveillance is a pro-active approach to identifying and arresting serious health threats before it gets out of hand or result to death of a worker in the office. One good method of effective health surveillance is encouraging a group insurance scheme and promotion of health and safety rules.

Why corporate health insurance? A corporate organization is non existent, or unproductive without human resources. It is the greatest asset a company has and must be cared for. Employees need sound mind and healthy bodies to work.

Good health ensures high productivity, optimum performance and commitment, which in turn yields positive result in term of company’s success and profitability. These positives will not be possible if an organization undermines the health of her workers, or care less of workers well being and medical records. It will adversely affect the company’s productivity and success, as there will be high rate of illnesses, loss of man hour, staff turnover or death.

One truth is that people get attracted to companies and their products because of their positive corporate culture which is employee and customer focused. Your employees are the reflection of your corporate image, product acceptability, corporate growth and general success. Therefore, it is adviseable that companies pay attention to their employee’s health.

Corporate health insurance is a source of pride to employees, employee loyalty and optimum commitment. Its benefits cannot be over emphasized. It is part of employee motivation.

It promotes employee participation in management, marketing and so on.

It enhances corporate communication

It enhances management –employee relationship

It provokes employee’s loyalty and commitment to corporate vision.

It enhances employee’s optimum performance

It saves company cost on adverts as satisfied employees would promote product or services at no cost

Here are Steps to achieving corporate health programs

Promotion of health, safety and environmental rules

Ensuring environmental cleanliness and protection

Ensuring good hazard waste disposal in line with environmental protection law

Promoting a safe smoking environment

Provision of safety materials, such as gloves, helmets, boots, face mask and so on.

Employing a safe driving rules

Employing a health provider retainer ship

Provision of first aid materials within the organization

Ensuring pre-employment medical test before hiring

Encouraging periodic health checks of employees

Training of staff on basic medical and safety knowledge

Companies must not lose the fact, that human resource is her most valued asset.

Consistent ill health can result to staff turnover, thereby company loosing trained staff, expertise and professionals, causing huge cost on staff recruitment and re-training. It is adviced, that the possibility of this occurrence should be nipped at the bud with group health insurance and a medical retainer-ship, to keep tab of workers health and overall well being.