If You Could Save Money, Improve Productivity and Boost Employee Morale, Would You?

If you answered “yes,” you have already acknowledged the importance of workplace health and safety programs and services.

Welcome to BizHealthCheck.com. This site is designed as a resource tool for business professionals who want to reduce their company’s bottom line health care costs, increase productivity, and achieve their health and safety goals. Did you know?

• Approximately 50 percent of businesses’ profits go toward healthcare costs to treat conditions such as chronic pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc., which can be related to personal behavioral and lifestyle choices.
• U.S. businesses spend $170 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses – expenditures that come straight out of company profits. Lost productivity from injuries and illnesses costs companies $60 billion each year.
• Employers pay almost $1 billion per week to injured employees and their health care providers (2005 Workplace Safety Index, Liberty Mutual).
• It is estimated that companies are paying a staggering $155 billion to $232 billion annually on workers' compensation. Even one serious workplace injury may affect the bottom line of a small business.

To address continued rising costs in healthcare, many businesses are implementing programs to affect unintentional injuries and illnesses, lost work days, lost productivity and workers' compensation costs. One of the ways businesses address this is through the services of occupational and environmental health nursing professionals, who can design programs that target reduction in these factors which greatly impact bottom line costs.  Use the Bottom Line Assessment Tool to help measure your company's spending on health care costs that ultimately affect your company's bottom line.

BizHealthCheck.com highlights case studies and success stories of some of these companies and provides information on what occupational and environmental health nursing professionals, with their healthcare expertise and business acumen, can do for your company.