Implementing the Eat Smart! Workplace Program in Your Workplace
Encouraging and supporting healthy eating in your workplace will reduce your absenteeism costs and health care costs.
The Eat Smart! Workplace Program is a provincial program that promotes workplace cafeterias that meet exceptional standards in nutrition, food safety and smoke-free dining. Becoming an Eat Smart! Workplace Cafeteria will create a supportive, healthy work environment by providing your employees with healthier choices.
Here are more reasons to join the Eat Smart! Workplace Program:
- Good nutrition is especially important for the health of shift workers.
- This program can benefit employees and their families, cafeteria staff, and visitors to the workplace.
- Research shows that health promotion programs are cost effective.
- Disease prevention is less costly than treatment.
- Safe food handling reduces the incidence of food-borne illness.
Applications for the Eat Smart! Program will be accepted between January 1, 2010 and March 31, 2010.
The criteria for the Eat Smart! Workplace Program can be found on Project Health’s website. Complete the checklist to ensure that your workplace meets the standards.If you would like to apply to the program visit Eat Smart Ontario and select “Waterloo” in the drop down menu to enter your information or call Project Health 519-883-2287. A limited number of applications will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
Information on the Eat Smart! Workplace Program will be provided in the upcoming networking session.
Mark Your Calendar:
Project Health Networking Session – January 21, 2010, 12 noon - 2pm
“Nutrition Promotion: Resources for promoting healthy eating in your workplace”
Click here to register
Websites:
For more information about Eat Smart! go to www.eatsmartontario.ca.
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