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91 Using the roadmap from TCRP Report 169 as a guide, this chapter identifies elements from the case studies that demonstrate qualities of scalable and sustainable strategies. It discusses the best practices deployed by these wellness programs and provides examples from the case studies to showcase how each strategy has been applied in a transit agency environment.
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92 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line not only provide excellent workplace health and wellness programs but, working with their local unions, these sites have instituted related policies addressing work organization, work environment, and safety issues, such as bus route scheduling, restroom access, bus design and ergo nomics, and operator assaults. They excel in conducting organizational needs analysis before program initiation, understanding the nature and health risks of frontline transit occupations, the demographics and prevalence rates of health conditions of their employees in comparison to the general and local populations, health and workers' compensation claims data, and premium trends.
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Implementation Strategies 93 of members from all divisions and ranks of the organization, were assembled at the onset of the programs. Often the union president was personally involved in the committee activities, along with other frontline employees.
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94 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line 7.1.3 Setting Targets With the targets and priorities set through comprehensive organizational needs analysis, these programs focused not only on addressing the identified health problems and conditions, but also on the contributing factors. The programs emphasized prevention as much as treatment, with HRAs and bioscreenings included as key components of almost all programs.
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Implementation Strategies 95 to participation in the health or wellness program or analyzed as a potential program outcome. None of the locations engaged in a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis on their own, but most were willing to provide the researchers with raw data for the analysis and showed strong interest in learning the results.
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96 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line additional employees involved in the wellness committee and as ambassadors. The smaller programs also have continued to adapt based on changing employee needs and evaluation of earlier program activities, but it was observed that the overall direction of these programs can be vastly different.
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Implementation Strategies 97 challenge is setting up the systems to successfully and accurately document the full extent of what actually transpires. Before programs are initiated, it is useful to consider additional metrics the transit agency can record that would detect positive changes earlier than waiting for decreased absentee hours to manifest.
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98 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line injury or illness and not workers maxing out on the sick day allocation. For this analysis, the project team used the total of sick, personal, unpaid sick, and unpaid personal (or the maximum subset of those categories available)
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Implementation Strategies 99 findings related to a subpopulation to be of significance, the subpopulation should have a sufficiently high number of members. For example, this research project did not make analytical conclusions about groups with 30 or fewer employees.
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100 Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line made to distinguish leave for health reasons from leave for personal use (e.g., vacation)
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Implementation Strategies 101 "Cost," and "ROI" provide a way to track results. The Excel-based document containing the template is available for download at no charge from the TCRP Report 169 webpage at www.trb.org.
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