People with multiple health risks should be at the top of the list. People in key positions such as union leaders or department heads with health risks should also be contacted early so that they learn what the program is about and can share the information with others.

People who need a medical evaluation for high blood pressure or cholesterol should also be targeted early. Many employees will have seen their doctors as a result of the screening, but some will need more encouragement to do so. Those with no health risks can be followed up annually.

A follow-up counseling session can take 20 to 45 minutes. At a minimum, follow-up must include those who were told to seek medical evaluation for high blood pressure readings, high cholesterol readings, or borderline high blood cholesterol readings with 2 or more other risk factors.

It may include those who were identified as at-risk for one or more of the other major risk factors: at-risk levels of alcohol consumption, being overweight, and having low HDL.