2018-03-15 Blue Zones Commitment Letter - County of Hawaii

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❑ Offer and promote ongoing COH-sponsored activities that support natural movement and team building. ❑ Implement an activity that regularly connects employees with leaders and department heads. ❑ Offer bi-weekly cooking classes and healthy food demonstrations. ❑ Create a community garden at the Aupuni Street location or on county building grounds. WORK ENVIRONMENT Select six of eight: ❑ Develop a well-being brand and campaign through which best practices and success stories are shared. ❑ Adopt and enforce a tobacco-free-campus policy(including use of e-cigarettes). ❑ Adopt and enforce a healthy vending policy that meets Blue Zones Project Healthy Food Guidelines. ❑ Create environmental and policy changes in the food environment that make the healthy choice the easy choice. ❑ Create environmental and policy changes that promote natural movement at COH facilities. ❑ Hold three COH-sponsored well-being events per year. ❑ Explore and identify easily accessible areas that can be repurposed for use by all employees. ❑ Schedule ergonomic education classes. PURPOSE Select two of three: ❑ Offer ongoing onsite developmental workshops, seminars, and/or lunch-and-learns to all employees. ❑ Create a consistent mission statement and communicate it clearly to all employees. ❑ Administer a personality assessment to all new employees to establish meaningful and purposeful connections between new hires and the COH culture of well-being. On behalf of the County of Hawai'i, we commit to improving the well-being of our organization and becoming a Certified Blue Zones Worksite.We recognize that creating a culture of well-being takes leadership, time, resources, and the appropriate budget. We commit to allocating these resources as needed to complete the actions above and stand.rd requirements outlined. MAR 132016 'a e Date MA OR HARRY KIM Name Date 8