Links & Resources

1. Health Canada - Health Works Guide
   If you are the owner or manager of a small business and you want to improve productivity, morale and safety in your workplace.
2. Health Canada’s Environmental and Workplace Health
   The environment, including the workplace, has an important impact on a person’s health. Health Canada works to protect the health of Canadians from environmental risks. This website offers information and advice on some of the most common environmental factors that affect human health: air, noise, soil and water pollution, climate change, environmental contaminants, occupational health and safety, pest control and radiation.
3. Health Canada - Reducing Work-Life Conflict: What Works? What Doesn't?
   Comprehensive information that identifies policies, programs and supports that organizations can implement and strategies that families and individuals can use to restore work-life balance. 
4. The Corporate Health Model provides large and medium-sized corporations with a proven, step-by-step approach for determining the real needs of employees for health programming.
5. The Small Business Health Model was designed for small businesses (up to 100 employees) to help employees and their families to increase control over and improve their health. Employees are given the opportunity to specify the health-related issues that are important to them and what kind of health promotion programming they prefer.
6. Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion: Recommended and Promising Practices for Situational Assessment Tools
   This resource contains information about 29 recommended and promising
   situational assessment tools in six categories: needs assessments,
   health risk appraisals, workplace audits, employee interest surveys,
   current practice surveys, and organizational culture surveys. It is
   designed to help workplace health promotion intermediaries in Ontario
   to: select and implement a situational assessment tool in their
   workplace, and replicate and/or adapt the best practice process used to
   generate the tools. The resource also provides a conceptual look at
   CWHP, situational assessment tools and best practice; guidelines and
   principles related to situational assessment tools; methodological
   information; and future recommendations for the project
7. The Health Communication Unit Workplace Information and Resources
   The Health Communication Unit at the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, is one of 22 members of the Ontario Health Promotion Resource System funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The Health Communication Unit was developed to provide training and support in health communication and includes health promotion planning, evaluation, and policy change.
8. Influencing the Organizational Environment to Create Healthy Workplaces Info-pack
   This Info-pack focuses on one element of the CWHP approach – the organizational environment. It is designed for practitioners who support the development of healthy workplaces in their community and would like to increase their understanding of the ways in which the organizational environment affects workplace health. It also provides practical ideas about what practitioners can do to promote healthy workplace environments.
9. Ministry of Labour The Ontario Workplace Gateway provides employers, workers and others with one-stop access to information and services on a wide variety of workplace-related topics. Ranging from rights, responsibilities and resources respecting employment standards and health and safety laws, environmental protection and other legislated standards, the Ontario Workplace Gateway helps you find the information and answers you need to ensure safe, fair and harmonious workplaces.
10. Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month – to promote a comprehensive and integrated approach to workplace health in order to improve and sustain the health of Canadian organizations.
    Join others in this annual celebration during the month of October.  There are hundreds of activities you can take part in during these four weeks.