Skip to Content Skip to Main Menu Skip to Global Menu
Colclough Lake Colclough Lake
Home Citizen Services Residents Businesses Visitors Emergency Services County Offices
You are here: Home > County Offices > County Manager's Office > Sustainability > Workplace Sustainability > Health
divider

Health

Sustainability addresses not only environmental needs, but also social concerns such as the health and wellness of employees. The responsibility of providing your employees with a healthy workplace environment has many benefits to your business such as reductions to absenteeism, insurance costs, and staff turnover. A healthy workplace will also promote higher employee morale, job satisfaction, and happier staff who will have increased productivity, and organizational effectiveness.

  • Encourage
    • Provide tips for maintaining a healthy workplace
    • Distribute healthy living material, and challenge employees to a lunch time walking group, take the stairs campaign, bike to work month etc.
    • Promote healthy eating habits that include local organic foods
  • Provide
    • Locate bicycle storage facilities with shower, change rooms and locker facilities for employees
    • Open access to natural light and good indoor air quality
    • Use green cleaning products that don’t emit harsh chemicals


Alachua County has created a Healthy Communities Forum that unites representatives of businesses, governments and university employers to create broad based health care awareness and facilitate research and best practices to improve employee and citizen health.

This website is a public service. Please read the Legal Disclaimer. Website designed and engineered by Alachua County ITS.Applications Division Version 2010 (v1.0)

Under Florida law (Statute 119.011), all information, including e-mail, written letters, documents and phone messages, sent to the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners is subject to Public Records law. This includes the sender's e-mail address, home address or phone number if shown in the message, the content of the message and any associated attachments to the mail. Also please be aware that electronic correspondence (e-mail) is made available on the Commission's public archive site immediately upon being sent. Instead, contact Alachua County Offices by phone or in writing.