CYRO INDUSTRIES TURNS VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEE PHYSICALS
INTO A HEALTHIER BOTTOM LINE

Comprehensive Health Services facilitates early
detection and intervention to save costs — and lives

VIENNA, VA. - January 19, 2005 - Comprehensive Health Services (CHS), an occupational health services company, and CYRO Industries today announced that CYRO’s voluntary employee physicals program has improved the health — and even saved the lives of its employees. CYRO executives credit occupational health services partner, CHS, with helping the company reduce corporate health care costs and employee turnover through a proactive approach to employee health.

According to William Dorcas, manager of Benefits Planning/Programs for CYRO, “When we started offering employee physicals back in 1994, we viewed it as an employee benefit like the 401(k) plan and we viewed good health as an important element of a successful retirement. But now, after seeing years of bottom-line results, we view healthy employees as a competitive advantage, too. By keeping employees healthy, we not only reduce health care costs, we have also seen a direct benefit in terms of productivity and performance measures, including lower absenteeism, better on-the-job achievement, and higher employee loyalty.”

Incentives and Convenience Spur Employee Participation

To make voluntary physicals accessible to more than 600 employees dispersed throughout 20 locations, CYRO relies on occupational health services provider CHS. Through its national network of more than 10,000 medical facilities, CHS provides convenient and consistently high-quality physicals and manages every aspect of CYRO’s program, from scheduling exams, to medical review, to reporting results to employees, to maintaining complete confidentiality. As an incentive for participating in these voluntary exams, CYRO not only pays the full cost of the exam, but provides employees who participate with an additional $50 in cash. As a result of these efforts, CYRO reports that approximately 55% of eligible employees participated in the exam program in 2004.

Early Warning Saves Costs … And Lives

CYRO’s periodic employee exams regularly reveal a variety of health risks and concerns, including high blood pressure, possible diabetes, abnormal EKGs, cholesterol problems, and other issues. Many health conditions such as high blood pressure and cholesterol can be addressed effectively and economically through simple lifestyle changes. Other problems, such as the possibility of prostate and breast cancer, require prompt medical intervention in order to minimize the health consequences and give employees the best chance to beat the diseases.

An ever-growing number of CYRO employees credit the physicals not just with helping them enjoy better health, but with actually saving their lives. One of these employees is Dale Guinta who thanks her CYRO physical for the fact that her breast cancer was caught early so treatment had the greatest chance of success. While Guinta publicizes her experience to encourage co-workers to take advantage of the exam benefit, most employees keep their results confidential. Still, in looking at aggregated statistics, CYRO is confident the program continues to save lives. In 2003, for example, physicals detected eight breast cancer concerns, one possible case of prostate cancer, 16 troubling EKGs, and four instances of liver concerns. In each of these cases, early detection makes the difference in supporting early treatment and helping employees.

Early treatment also helps minimize CYRO’s disability costs, productivity losses, and health care costs. Since the exam program started, Dorcas says the company has documented steady improvement in productivity. He adds that “technically, these exams are an expense. But when you consider that for every $1 we pay CHS to manage the program, we save much more in disability, premiums, lost days — it’s clearly more of an investment than an expense. In fact, after 10 years, we feel this program continues to more than pay for itself and shows our employees that we really care.”

About CYRO Industries

Established in 1976, CYRO Industries is the innovative supplier of acrylic plastic sheet and plastic compounds to existing and emerging markets in the Americas. CYRO has broad technological and global resources and has more than 600 U.S. employees at manufacturing, distribution, sales, and customer centers in the U.S. http://www.cyro.com

About CHS

Founded in 1975, CHS is a leader in the design, implementation, and management of occupational health services. With in-house medical professionals, a national network of CHS certified physicians, and best practices built on decades of experience serving blue chip clients in the public and private sectors, CHS uses its unique resources to integrate services across the entire occupational health lifecycle. A founding member of the Occupational and Environmental Health Foundation, CHS also is a corporate sponsor of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Corporate Health Achievement Award. The CHS Web site is at http://www.chsmedical.com.

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