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Healthy Workplace Resources - Tools and Products
Various tools and products for purchase or free of charge.
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Algoma Health Unit
Serves the area of Algoma including Sault Ste. Marie, Echo Bay, St. Joseph Island, Goulais River etc. offering workplace health services.
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Arthritis Society of Canada
Provides information on programs and services that are available to individuals.
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BC Council for Families
Offers information on issues to strengthen and support families.
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Canada's Healthy Workplace Month (CHWM)
Provides Canadian organizations with great ideas and tools to participate in the annual Healthy Workplace Month in October and throughout the year.
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety
Provides information, advice and training on how to prevent illness and injury in the workplace.
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Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Offers referral to community services in caller's area; Action News official newsletter; online searchable database and directories; Lifestyle Interview on Substance Abuse of LISA Software (offers a quick check of alcohol, drug and tobacco use), which produces a summary for professionals and a verdict and advice for the interviewee.
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Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
Offers information on programs to increase the awareness of tobacco control and the effects.
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Canadian Diabetes Association
Provides information about diabetes and offers helpful links to other diabetes information.
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Canadian Health Network: People with Disabilities
Offers resources about people living with a disability.
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Canadian Health Network: Workplace Health Centre
Contains resources about balancing family and work, job safety, preventing work-related injuries, workplace health promotion, and wellness programs.
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Canadian Healthy Workplace Criteria
Serves as a roadmap for organizations in any sector who wish to encourage, support and offer exemplary health-related programs in the workplace.
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Canadian Hearing Society
Offers information on employment counselling services; interpreter services; hearing and workplace noise assessments; brochures and booklets on hearing loss, etc.
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Canadian HR Reporter
Provides real-world solutions to perplexing HR situations (from peers and industry experts), helpful case studies and insightful commentary.
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Canadian Institute for Health Information
Working to improve the health of Canadians and the health care system by providing quality, reliable and timely health information.
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Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Works with business, government and education communities at all levels to improve business and labour practices and to provide public policy on labour market and skills issues.
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Canadian Lung Association's National Influenza Immunization Campaign
Flu at Work Kit' with details on workplace vaccination programs, vaccination reminders, and posters.
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Canadian MedicAlert Foundation
MedicAlert offers various options to encourage employers to
include MedicAlert as part of an overall corporate Health and Wellness program or Health Benefit Package for employees. This website outlines options such as full or partial employer subsidies, employer group savings on membership fees and/or products. Face-to-face presentations, health exhibits, relevant articles for newsletters, and enrolment clinics are also offered.
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Canadian Mental Health Association
Promotes the mental health of all people and to serve mental health consumers, their families and friends.
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Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Provides information about eye safety programs for the workplace in particular regions.
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Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine
Offers a wide array of articles to help the work of health and safety professionals.
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Canadian Pharmacists Association
Offers workplace seminars; drug use management program resources; and referrals to local pharmacies.
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Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF)
This organization acts as a resource and facilitator in the pursuit of equity, fairness, and social justice. The website offers local referrals; information; and a report on employment issues called Unequal Access.
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Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
Offers online access to a list of sleep facilities across Canada; sleep brochures and other related tools; as well as online access to sleep experts by province.
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Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
Provides information on IBS, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, as well as other gastrointestinal tract disorders; pamphlets; support groups; and newsletters.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Provides health promotion and prevention services and information.
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Centre for Health Promotion (University of Toronto)
Provides service in the field of health promotion that will enable people to control and improve their health.
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Conference Board of Canada
Delivers knowledge through learning events, networks, research products, and customized information services to its members.
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Credit Counselling Services of Alberta
Offers credit counselling services and information regarding budgeting and resources available.
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Dietitians of Canada
Offers tools and ideas on how to eat healthier.
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Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity
Support group information is available, as well as references; online 'Find a Physician' Tool; newsletters; magazines; online databases; links; and information on weight management and
nutrition.
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Eat Smart! Workplace Program
Eat Smart! is an Award of Excellence program that recognizes top Ontario restaurants, schools, workplaces and recreation centres for providing healthier environments to their customers.
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Eat Well, Live Well
Provides a variety of resources designed to help you check out your food choices, activity patterns, and body weight. Provides personalized feedback to help you achieve your healthy eating and active living goals and answer your nutrition questions.
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Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to workplaces of the City of St. Thomas and Elgin County.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Hosts an annual conference, publishes a journal for the employee assistance profession, and offers training and other resources to enhance the professionalism of its members and the industry.
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ErgoNext
Offers dynamic information and tools you need to install and maintain an effective, compliant ergonomic program.
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Four Step Guide to Building the Business Case for a Healthy Workplace
Outlines the steps to developing a healthy workplace business case for your place of work.
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Framework for the Development of a Healthy Workplace
Learn about the essential drivers that are key in developing and sustaining a Healthy Workplace - leadership, planning, people focus, process management and outcomes.
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Government of Canada Public Service-wide Employee Survey
Provides a general overview of the popular business literature published over the last fiver years on the subject of workplace well-being.
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Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information
Offers health news and content as well tools and risk assessments.
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Health Canada – Publications & Resources
Offers a variety of downloadable information guides, health models, and case studies.
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Health in Action- Alberta
Gives you immediate access to information, people and resources needed to make your health promotion and injury prevention programs and research more effective.
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Healthy Canadian
Provides health related news and information, as well as locate service providers, health associations, consumer health products, and links to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Healthy Eating
The Healthy Eating Program was developed in 1993, and is designed for use by people who have the opportunity to include healthy eating education into existing and developing programs in order to increase knowledge and skills on healthy eating.
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Healthy Measures
Introduces new ways for both consumers and health professionals to teach women to measure their health, and promotes new, healthier measures or steps that women can take to better their health without focussing on weight loss. Based on a three-pronged approach of being active, eating well, and being yourself.
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Healthy Workplace Implementation Workshop
Learn how you can improve your organization and become more successful by implementing the widely recognized NQI - Progressive Excellence Program for a Healthy Workplace.
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Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Provides information on heart disease, stroke and nutrition, offers advice on heart healthy menus for company cafeterias, information on stress, smoking cessation and nutrition.
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Investing In Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
Encourages and facilitates the implementation of Health Promotion as a means of pursuing organizational excellence and Comprehensive Workplace Health.
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Kids Have Stress Too!
Provides information on how to effectively manage children's stress.
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Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox, Addington Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Kingston, Frontenca, Lennox, and Addington areas.
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Lambton Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Lambton County including Forest and Point Edward.
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Leeds, Greenville and Lanark District Health Unit
Offers workplace health information to organizations in the Leeds, Greenville and Lanark District.
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Making Your Workplace Smokefree
A decision makers guide to eliminating smoking in the workplace. Offers practical and proven strategies for implementing successful policies in a variety of work settings.
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MEDLINEplus
Provides medical and health information through studies, tutorials, encyclopaedias, etc.
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Mental Health Works
Helps organizations recognize the important role they can play in supporting the mental health of their employees and how they can respond appropriately when employees experience mental health problems.
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Motherisk (c/o Hospital for Sick Children)
Newsletters; pamphlets; books; and information available regarding the safety or risk of drugs, chemicals, and disease during pregnancy and lactation.
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National Eating Disorder Information Centre
Offers listings of treatment services and resources from across the country, written information on eating disorders assistance with the development of information materials.
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National Quality Institute
NQI is Canada's leading authority on the development and sustainability of excellence through quality and healthy workplace environments.
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NQI Healthy Workplace for Small Organizations: 10-Point Quality Criteria and Self-Evaluation Tool
This tool, designed for organizations with fewer than 100 employees will help smaller organizations focus on a healthy workplace.
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Nutrition Resource Centre
Provides programs, guides, and other valuable resources to strengthen the capacity of community nutrition practitioners across Ontario to deliver quality nutrition programming in a health promotion context.
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Ontario Health Promotion Resource Centre
Supports Health Promotion in Ontario for people and organizations that want to increase their capacity to effectively promote health in Ontario communities.
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Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Supports individuals and organizations through three main program
areas: Health Promotion Resource Centre, Best Start: Ontario's Maternal, Newborn, and Early Childhood Development Resource Centre, and Ontario Health Promotion Resource Secretariat. Also provides numerous articles and publications of interest.
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Osteoporosis Society of Canada
This website provides easy-to-understand information about
the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis. It
offers referrals; peer counselling phone line; workplace seminars; literature; and contact information for provincial chapters.
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Parkinson Society of Canada
Website offers referrals to regional offices; workplace seminars; local support groups; exercise classes; fundraising events; newsletters; educational conferences; professional
speakers; resource materials; and peer support programs.
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Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
Information regarding prostate cancer is available as well as a message board to contact other individuals with prostate cancer; and a free monthly e-newsletter.
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Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Access to information on sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality and contraception; access to the Common Questions About Sexual Health Education document, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, and other articles and information sources through the website, including a research library.
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Shifting to Wellness
A program offered by Keyano college Lifestyle Services. Provides practical solutions to reduce shift work stress with established recommendations aimed at achieving wellness in all individuals.
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Simcoe County District Health Unit
Offers workplace health services and information to organizations of Simcoe County including Essa, Innisfil, Severn, etc.
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Smoking Cessation: Living Smoke Free
Provides methods, tips, and rewards for quitting smoking, including e-Quit: Health Canada's free daily quit smoking e-mail support system.
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Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
This website offers information and articles related to pregnancy and birth, contraception and sexual health, and menopause, symptoms, and related health issues. A large focus is also on the International Women's Health Program.
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Summer Active
Features fun and interesting SummerActive stories and events from various Provinces/Territories, and Communities across Canada in order to promote healthy eating, active living, and living smoke free to help improve and maintain health.
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University of California Berkeley Wellness Letter
Translates leading-edge research into practical advice for daily living - at home, at work, while exercising, and in the market or health-food store.
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Work & Family Connection
Offers valuable information about the connections between work and life.
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Workers Health & Safety Centre, Ontario
Provides information for workers regarding health and safety issues, including training and publications.
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Work-Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces
Includes information about policies and programs regarding work-life balance in Canadian Workplaces. Includes: Voices of Canadians: Seeking Work-Life Balance and Collective Agreements and Older Workers in Canada
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Workplace Health Self-Assessment Workbook
Filled with advice, tools and tips, this Workbook is a quick and easy way to evaluate your organization's progress towards developing a healthy workplace for your employees.
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Workplace Health Unit - Brock Unversity Wellness Institute
Offers assessment tools and systems for collecting and interpreting individual and organizational level data.
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World Health Organization
Promotes the attainment for all people to achieve the highest level of health.
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Young Worker Awareness Program
Offers health and safety awareness information to young workers to protect themselves on the job.
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