Target
Risky health behaviours by employees cost organizations. Research demonstrates that changing those behaviours saves the employer money by reducing health claim costs, disability claims, employee turnover and absenteeism, and by increasing productivity.

Ready, Aim
Shifting to Wellness aims to arm Shiftworkers with the tools and strategies to change risky behaviours into positive behaviours. In our deliveries, we directly target the people who ultimately make the choices that determine their health and safety, the shiftworkers themselves.

Fire
Shifting to Wellness measures its impact by measuring if the program leads to employees making positive lifestyle changes. As research demonstrates these positive changes lead to savings for organizations.

Bullseye!
The results are in! Implementing the Shifting to Wellness leads to employees making positive lifestyle changes.
In 2001, in partnership with Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), a survey was administered to the Shifting to Wellness participants in Engineering Services. 12.3% (325 of the 2642) of the employees participated in this survey. The questions were targeted around whether employees made more positive lifestyle choices as a result of participating in the Shifting to Wellness Program. The findings of the CPR survey demonstrate that participants of the Shifting to Wellness program are making positive lifestyle changes as a result of participating in the program. The following are some of the findings:

77.8% of respondents made at least one positive lifestyle change since they participated in the Shifting to Wellness sessions.

69.1% of respondents reported making more than three positive lifestyle changes.

The most frequent changes were:

Improvement in eating habits 38%
Increase physical activity 35%
Better stress management 33.5%
Improvement in sleep routines/sleep patterns 33%

Our business plan involves developing a universal program audit tool that will allow organizations to directly measure the impacts of the Shifting to Wellness Program including the impact that the positive lifestyle changes have on their bottom lines.