In This Issue
Quick Fact: The Benefits of Promoting Wellness in your Workplace
Resources
Mark Your Calendars - Upcoming Events
Workplace Wellness: A Sound Investment
Quick Facts
The Benefits of Promoting Wellness in your Workplace
It makes good business sense to provide employees with opportunities to improve their own health, as well as, improving the health of the workplace. "Companies with health programs have discovered that when employees feel good about their health, they work better, don't take as much time off work for sick leave and choose to stay with the company longer. A healthy workplace is as good for business as it is for the individuals working there." (Health Canada's Corporate Health Model).
Resources
An Introduction to Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
This resource was developed by The Health Communications Unit, University of Toronto and provides an excellent overview of comprehensive workplace health promotion and the role of intermediary (those who provide support or direction to those involved in workplace health promotion). An 8 step process for effective comprehensive workplace programming is provided.
The Case for Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion - Making 'Cents' of a Good Idea
This resource looks at the rationale for investment in wellness, critical success factors in workplace health promotion and supports available.
Influencing the Organizational Environment to Create Healthy Workplaces Info-pack
This info-pack focuses on one element of the Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion approach - the organizational environment.
Project Health - The Handbook for Healthy Workplaces
Region of Waterloo Public Health developed this handbook for workplaces and it includes information on the elements of comprehensive workplace health and on a variety of health promotion topics.
Creating Healthy Workplaces
This resource produced by the Industrial Accident Prevention Association highlights the psychosocial work environment and the legal case for creating a healthy work environment.
Building a Healthy Workplace
Middlesex London Health Unit provides this resource which has a section on the advantages and challenges to various health assessment methods. It provides information on a variety of health promotion topics such as: shift workers, dental health, heart health and harassment.
Taking Action: A Guide to Workplace Wellness
This guide to Workplace Wellness developed by Durham Health Unit provides you with key elements of successful workplace wellness programs.
Balanced Workplace Health: 6 Step Model
Simcoe County District Health Unit presents a 6 step model for workplace health programming and provides some helpful downloadable worksheets and checklists.
Health Canada Health Works Guide
This guide is for any owner or manager of a small business who wants to improve productivity, morale and safety in their workplace. It outlines a simple five step process for improving business and employee health that can help you reap substantial rewards without spending a lot of time and money".
Health Canada Corporate Health Model
This Model provides large and medium-sized corporations with a proven, step-by-step approach for determining the real needs of employees for health programming. It discusses how a worksite committee of managers and labour representatives can develop a long-term plan to prioritize and address these health-related needs.
Twelve Case Studies of Innovative Workplace Health Initiatives
The Canadian Labour and Business Centre documented and analyzed the innovative healthy workplace practices of 12 Canadian organizations, in order to promote workplace health more broadly. This document provides a summary of key conclusions from these case studies.
Recommended and Promising Practices for Situational Assessment Tools
The Health Communication Unit has developed this on-line resource for searching for employee assessment tools. It lists posted tools as either recommended or promising.
Nova Scotia's Comprehensive Workplace Health Program
This link provides practical information related to establishing leadership commitment and provides a helpful tools and resources that provides workplaces and practitioners with information to create their own healthy workplace.
Healthy Employees in Healthy Organizations: Good Practice in Workplace Health Promotion (WPH) in Europe
This report reviewed the health and wellness practices of 40 companies in Europe ranging in sizes from small to large businesses demonstrating the positive impacts of creating a healthy workplace.
Conditions for Successful Workplace Health Initiatives
This resource which was developed by The Health Communications Unit, University of Toronto provides background research on nine conditions for successful workplace health initiatives.
Mark your Calendar: Upcoming Events
Developing a Workplace Wellness Plan That Works! Workshop - Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Together 4 Health Workplace Wellness Group is hosting this free full day workshop that will help build your capacity to plan and implement health promotion activities in your workplace. It is open to all workplaces in Waterloo Region. See link for brochure and registration information.
Canada's Healthy Workplace Month - Sept 29 - Oct 26, 2008
Canada's Healthy Workplace Week has expanded to be a month long initiative which is designed to introduce workplace health to Canadian organizations and to support those who are already involved. The theme this year is "Take the Healthy Workplace Challenge".
Health Work and Wellness Conference 2008 - October 15-18, 2008
The focus of the 2008 Conference is organizational sustainability. The theme this year is "Moving Forward. Giving Back". "In today's employee driven market, there is greater expectation that companies leave a healthy organizational footprint - both in their responsibility to the environment, as well as their responsibility to their employees and the communities within which they exist."
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