Success Stories

Dr. Cardinal provides Backsafe and Sittingsafe injury prevention training for FIT to corporations in Northern CA. Her workshops are always received extremely well by employees that attend her trainings. Dr. Cardinal really cares about the employees she is training which is one of the reasons she has become one of FIT's best. She is professional, reliable and a pleasure to have on our team.

Sincerely,

Dennis Downing, CEO
Future Industrial Technologies (FIT)

W Hotel-San Francisco

I wanted to let you know the year end results at the W San Francisco in regards to our employee health and welfare and how your education has been instrumental in helping us to keep our employees not only safe, but healthier.  Certainly, we have been able to qualify the effects of your training at our Health and Safety Fair where you demonstrated safe lifting techniques, assisted our Housekeepers with their cart loading and movement and our administrative staff with their stretches to help minimize ergonomic injuries.    

However, it is the Lunch and Learn that we have seen the most noticeable “employee-owned” attention to being healthy. First, our employees have created a team along with our Executive Chef and designed “grab and go” meals.  These include snacks such as whole fresh fruit, yogurt and whole grain breads, for making sandwiches.  Our employee functions, which used to feature chips and cookies (employees don’t always get the best foods in hotels, although everyone sees the hotel industry as glamorous) now, feature assorted sliced fresh fruits, fruit smoothies, popcorn and healthy alternatives.  It is difficult for us to quantify our sick day’s reduction as we share our sick time with our holiday time. However, both our Director of Sales and Marketing and our Director of Operations verified that they had, on average, a reduction of 2 sick days/per year versus 2006.  They attribute this to both eating healthier, the attention to exercise and our management staff recognizing how to balance healthy eating with the rigorous demands our hotel schedule often requires.   

The insight and knowledge you shared was not taken lightly by our employees of W San Francisco. What you provided in the Lunch and Learn were the tools to help our employees make life choices that have paid dividends not only for us as an employer, but personally for them, in their overall health and lifestyle.   

We look forward to continuing to work with you on keeping the employees of W San Francisco “In the Know.”  

Warm Wishes and again, Thanks! 

Terri Lynn Cardona

Director of Talent/ W San Francisco 

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