Norfolk Southern: Health and Wellbeing1. Background The Norfolk Southern Railway Corporation was founded in 1982. This company has been around under many other names throughout the history of the United States, with continuous mergers and acquisitions throughout the history of railroads. In northern Indiana the railroads were originally the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad, these two lines combined to become Penn Central. Penn Central went bankrupt, and the U.S. government merged it with other railroads to form Conrail. In the early 2000s the government sold portions of Conrail to the country's largest railroads, and Norfolk Southern purchased the Chicago Line that runs through northern Indiana. This is only a small part of the company's history, but it is the most important part in the context of the Norfolk Southern Elkhart shipyard, where I currently work. 2. Human Resources Needs The human resources situation to be assessed at Elkhart Yard would constitute a subset of risk management and worker protection, more specifically employee health and well-being. Many Norfolk Southern employees have a tendency to be overweight or even overweight. The second ideal is healthy weight, this includes access to “tools and resources that every employee can use to achieve and maintain a healthy weight” (HealthAhead). The final part of this program is Healthy in a Click, a computer-based program that offers access to healthy lifestyle information, including recipes, wellness topics, and ways to challenge each other toward fitness-related goals (HealthAhead) . This program is clearly working to help avoid downtime as the company has shown a 12% decrease in health-related absenteeism, which can result in a huge gain in terms of overall production per employee (GE Goals and