Download free posters (PDF) to place throughout your workplace:

- With left arrows
- With right arrows
- For walking routes

- Motivational posters

- 5-2-1-0 Poster

Place Posters at the elevators or stairs to encourage active choice.
Have employees (or their children) decorate the stairwells so that they're more attractive for users.

 

Workplaces

Workplace wellness programs are an obvious “first” step” in reaching adult family members throughout Greater Portland. That’s why Let’s Go! has adopted the StairWELL Initiative that is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) program, “StairWELL to Better Health .” Stairwells represent an important opportunity to increase daily physical activity because of low personal cost and convenience.

Let’s Go! has created a StairWELL Initiative Toolkit that provides tools for Maine employers to improve employee health by implementing a StairWELL initiative within their organization. The toolkit provides options for businesses that do not have stairwells, including links to tools to help map out walking paths around worksites and additional resources to help promote physical activity in the workplace to all employees.

The Let’s Go! toolkit contains ready to use materials that can be used to take advantage of a worksite’s built environment as a way to promote and encourage physical activity during the work day.

The Let’s Go! StairWELL Toolkit includes:

• Evaluation Component (Surveys)
• Promotional Ideas
• Sample e-mails
• Point of Decision Prompt Posters (Left and Right Arrows)
• Motivational Posters
• 5-2-1-0 Poster
• Walking Route Posters (Left and Right Arrows)
• Resources

Let’s Go! has also created posters that encourage stair use and are a great way to promote your initiative. Placing signs at places where people have a choice between the stairs and the elevator is a key aspect of encouraging people to use the stairs. It will also remind employees that there are stairs for them to use! Each organization is different and messages that motivate some may not be motivating to others. It is important to consider your audience, and tailor the messages accordingly.

Web Resources

• Ideas from the American Heart Association for adding physical activity to your daily life at home, at the office, and at play.
• Information from the Active Living Network on physical activities to add to your workday, and links to other ideas.
• Ideas from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on increasing the use of stairs in the workplace, including how to improve the visual appeal of stairwells and use creative signage to encourage use.
• Tool for employers to quantify what physical inactivity is costing their businesses.
• Tips to help your employees and their families to become healthier.