Program features include physical activity events, competitions, education,
health screenings, healthy cooking lessons, smoking cessation, stress
management activities and weight loss challenges.
Fulton has
been given UnitedHeathcare’s Healthy Workplace Award, which honors successful
company-wide wellness programs.
The hydronic and heat
transfer products manufacturer’s health programs include smoking cessation, lessons
on healthy cooking, stress management and weight loss.
Kathy
Sega, Fulton’s vice president and general manager for U.S. operations
Kathy Sega, said programs like theirs are still unusual in the manufacturing
industry.
“At Fulton, we proudly have just such a program,”
Sega said. “There is great benefit in sharing this message with similar
facilities: it can be accomplished.”
Fulton and other
UnitedHealthcare winners were recognized at a September banquet.
“The greatest benefit we see at Fulton is an overall
culture of wellness due to the extremely high rate of employee participation,”
said Joy Zimmerman, Fulton’s director of wellness. “We see our wellness program
continuing to respond to employee interests and needs.”
