Health promotion at the worksite. I. A process for establishing programs

A 14-step process for establishing health promotion programs at the worksite is described. During a period of 3 years, it has been used to establish 58 such programs in 12 small industries that employ 4,200 persons in a rural county in Pennsylvania. Few problems have been encountered; the most serious is the very limited record-keeping system of industries. The process is flexible and can be readily generalized to different settings. The major strengths of the process are the sense of ownership it gives to employees, and the modesty of its costs and the costs of the resulting programs.