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Work Well

Welcome to Work Well, the Governor's initiative that encourages public agencies to provide a healthy workplace.

What is Work Well?

The Governor's Work Well recommendations are designed to keep employees healthy while they are at work. The recommendations focus on creating healthy work environments, making the healthy choice, the easy choice for workers.

Governor's Work Well Recommendations

  1. Offer healthy menu choices at each work meeting, conference, and training where food is served.

  2. Post healthy eating messages in cafeterias, break rooms, and vending areas.

  3. Work with vendors in state facilities to include healthy options in cafeterias and vending machines, based on customer preference.

  4. Encourage employees to exercise, including utilization of the existing exercise release policy of 30 minutes, three times per week, with supervisor approval.

  5. Promote the use of stairs as a way to get more daily physical activity.

  6. Encourage employees to walk, bike, or bus to work and, where circumstances permit, provide showers, lockers, bike racks, discounted bus passes, and flexible working schedules.

  7. Educate employees about trails and pathways that are safe and near worksites.

  8. Implement a Tobacco Free Campus.

  9. Implement a workplace lactation support policy that is supported by management and communicated to all staff.

  10. Establish worksite wellness councils to support healthy eating and daily physical activity.

Start to Work Well!

These resources can help you and your coworkers easily put Work Well recommendations into practice at your worksite. One of the easiest ways is to start a Wellness Council, which only requires meeing once a month. Learn how to start a Wellness Council, download healthy message posters to hang in your building, find healthy eating and physical activity tips, and more.

Work Well Downloads

The Governor has recommended that agencies post healthy eating messages in cafeterias, break rooms, and vending areas. We have also included physical activity messages to post around your building. Click on the links below to download Work Well healthy message posters, which can be printed to any size paper.

Contact Work Well

Do you have questions or concerns about Work Well? We want to help you succeed in your health and wellness goals. Let us know how we can help! For phone inquiries, please call the Healthy Utah numbers below and ask for Work Well.

  • Email: WorkWell@utah.gov
  • Phone: (801) 538-6261
  • Toll free: (888) 222-2542
  • Fax: (801) 323-1577
  • Mail: P.O. Box 142107 , Salt Lake City , UT 84114-2107

Work Well Sites