This section includes essential Canadian workplace health information such as organizational leaders, major documents and reports, as well as important websites on this topic.
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JobQuality.ca |
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Offers information and data on the quality of work and working conditions in Canada. Describes indicators of job quality and explains why they’re important to employers, employees and policy makers. Includes tables and charts, statistics, surveys and news. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Work-life balance in Canadian workplaces |
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Offers information, resources and tools to help organizations design and implement supportive programs and policies facilitating work-life balance. Includes case studies, programs, policies, evaluation tools, and best practices. |
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Source: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Institute for Work and Health |
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Researches and promotes ways to prevent workplace disability, improved treatment, optimal recovery and safe return-to-work. Focused on research and the transfer of research results into practice in health care, clinical settings, and the workplace. |
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Source: Institute for Work and Health (IWH) |
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National Quality Institute |
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Assists organizations to improve excellence, increase productivity and build healthy workplaces through the use of quality principles, practices and certification. Web site offers healthy workplace criteria and guidelines, courses, resources, training and recognition. |
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Source: National Quality Institute (NQI) |
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Health Canada, Environmental and Workplace Health, Workplace Health |
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Includes research findings outlining the ways in which the work environment impacts the health of workers and the productivity of Canadian organizations. Also includes resources designed to assist organizations in implementing workplace health strategies. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being |
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Promotes individual and family well-being, responsive and productive work environments, and strong, sustainable communities through strategic research, policy analysis, best practices development, and education. Web site includes an events calendar and on-line publications.
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Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being (CFWW) |
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Mental health works |
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Provides employers and employees with information about mental health issues in the workplace. Covers topics such as early identification, prevention, accommodation, legal rights and responsibilities. Includes news, fact sheets, resource lists, and information on publications and services. |
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Source: Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division |
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Healthy workplace week |
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Focuses on an annual week in October, which promotes a comprehensive approach to workplace health in Canadian organizations. Includes workplace health promotion ideas and activities, information, research, and resources. |
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Information and resources |
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Provides access to resources supporting workplace health promotion. Covers issues such as effectiveness of workplace health promotion, conditions necessary for successful initiatives, stakeholder analysis, and a comprehensive planning framework. Includes a virtual community for health promotion intermediaries. |
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Source: University of Toronto, Centre for Health Promotion, The Health Communication Unit (THCU)
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European Network for Workplace Health Promotion |
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Provides a European perspective on workplace health promotion. Offers access to a newsletter, discussion forum, and workplace health promotion programming information and tools. |
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Source: European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP) |
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Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Provides information, analysis and ideas concerning the linkage between business, the economy, mental health and work. Provides executives, managers, and supervisors information and advice on reducing the business and economic dollar costs of mental illness and addictions among employees and management. |
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Source: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Canadian Policy Research Networks |
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Creates knowledge and leads public debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of Canadians. Conducts research on family, work, and health, as well as projects on the non-profit sector, the social union, and policy research. Work-related research looks at labour market, workplace change and learning and work. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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