Research offers the latest analysis, findings and trends on workplace health related issues, and often make recommendations for policies, practices and future research directions. Research can also help support and evaluate initiatives. The information below includes reports, articles and papers on a variety of subjects related to health at work.
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Integrating workplace health |
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Offers a presentation on how workplaces can develop workplace health promotion programs.
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety |
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Occupational health & safety magazine |
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Contains articles, events and resources aimed at preventing workplace injuries and illnesses in Alberta. Offers current and back issues. |
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Source: Alberta Employment, Immigration and Industry |
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What's a good job? The importance of employment relationships |
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Discusses why good employment relationships are important for workers, employers and public policy and how they define a good job and working conditions.
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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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 the new millennium: where are we? Where do we need to go? |
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Examines work-life balance trends in Canada. Looks at factors affecting work-life balance and the impact on individuals, organizations and society. Offers recommendations for employers, employees and families, unions, and government. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Material safety data sheets (MSDSs) - general |
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Answers questions on Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), documents that provide information on the hazards of chemical products found in the workplace and how to work safely with them. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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WHMIS: general information |
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Answers questions on Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), why it was created, how it developed, duties it specifies for employers and workers, and how it is enforced. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Extended workday: health and safety issues |
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Answers questions on the health and safety issues related to working extended workday schedules including fatigue, exposure to hazards, and effects on social and family life. Offers guidelines on how workplaces can implement this type of work schedule. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Rotational shiftwork |
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Answers questions on shiftwork including the effects on body cycle, sleep patterns, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular systems, and family and social life. Suggests how workers and employers can address problems related to shiftwork. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Health & safety programs |
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Offers a series of information to help employers, employees, and health and safety committees develop health and safety programs such as emergency planning, accident investigation, and inspection checklists. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Legislation |
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Offers occupational health and safety regulatory information from Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions. Covers duties and responsibilities of employers, supervisors, and workers; work refusals; and due diligence. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Health promotion / wellness / psychosocial |
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Offers a series of information on workplace health issues including stress, work-life balance, violence in the workplace, substance abuse and bullying. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Substance abuse in the workplace |
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Answers questions on substance abuse problems, how they may affect the workplace and what workplaces can do to address this issue. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Employee assistance programs (EAP) |
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Answers questions on employee assistance programs (EAP) including what typically happens when an employee uses an EAP and employers should look for when hiring or contracting such a service. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS): workplace policy |
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Answers questions on smoking restrictions in the workplace including legal obligations, ventilation, and steps workplaces can take to implement a smoking policy. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Occupations & workplaces: telework/telecommuting |
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Answers questions on the health and safety issues related to working from a home office environment. Offers tips for employees on scheduling work, ergonomics, working alone, and creating a safety checklist. Discusses issues for workplaces to consider when developing a teleworking arrangement. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Scent-free policy for the workplace |
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Answers questions on scents in the workplace, health effects, products that contain scents, and steps to take when implementing a scent-free policy in the workplace. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Violence in the workplace prevention guide |
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Describes a pocket-size guide about violence in the workplace and its prevention. The guide outlines how to develop a workplace violence prevention program and presents specific prevention tips on workplace and work-related travel situations. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Indoor air quality health & safety guide |
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Describes a guide on the health and safety issues related to indoor air quality. The guide discusses symptoms and causes of poor indoor air quality and recommends preventive action such as how to select furnishings and equipment to prevent indoor air contaminant buildup. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Health and safety committees reference guide |
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Describes a guide about how to form and run a workplace health and safety committee. The guide outlines accident investigation, workplace inspections, and identification and control of workplace hazards. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Best advice on stress risk management in the workplace: part 1 |
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Shows how stress and the costs associated with it can be identified and managed in the workplace. Examines organizational sources of stress and the risks to mental and physical health, and safety. Includes overheads to use for presentations. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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Best advice on stress risk management in the workplace: part 2 |
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Shows how stress and the costs associated with it can be identified and managed in the workplace. Examines organizational sources of stress and the risks to mental and physical health, and safety. Includes overheads to use for presentations. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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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 Social Development (HRSD) |
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The business case for work-life balance |
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Outlines evidence supporting the business benefits of work environments that foster work-life balance. Discusses absenteeism, accountability, recruitment and retention, productivity, and organizational benefits. Provides tips on how to build a business case. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Creating family-friendly workplaces |
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Discusses what workplaces can do to offer family-friendly practices to facilitate work-life balance. Looks at issues, solutions, challenges, myths and practical steps to take to create a family-friendly workplace. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Work and family provisions in Canadian collective agreements |
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Examines family-friendly provisions that facilitate work-life balance, as found in major Canadian collective agreements. Topics include organization of working time; maternity, parental and adoption provisions; other leave and vacations; child care; and, employee benefits. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Work-related child-care centres in Canada - 2001: summary |
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Reviews practices of work-related child-care centres in Canada. Discusses major issues, advantages and disadvantages, and how organizations can be involved in developing and operating work-related child-care centres. Includes detailed profiles of 14 Canadian centres. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Moving beyond policies and programs to bring about culture change |
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Discusses how organizations can foster a corporate culture that supports work-life balance policies, programs and benefits. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Accident prevention magazine |
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Offers occupational health and safety information from an industry perspective. Published bi-monthly. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) |
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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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Recent issues |
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Offers current issues of two newsletters - “At Work” and “Infocus.” Contain articles and announcements about workplace research and the work of the Institute for Work and Health. |
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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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Canadian healthy workplace criteria |
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Offers a downloadable guide to help organizations manage their workplace health issues. Outlines principles of a healthy workplace, criteria for organizational practices, and guidelines for the various elements of a healthy workplace including environmental, physical, mental, safety and social issues. |
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Source: National Quality Institute (NQI) |
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WorkSafeBC publications |
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Lists health and safety related resources including reports, newsletters, policy manuals, statistics, guides for workers and employers working with the WCB, appeal decisions, and includes ordering information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Working safely with OPs (organo-phosphate insecticides) |
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Explains what employers, supervisors, and workers must do to work safely with organo-phosphate insecticides (commonly called OPs). Explains how OPs affect health, symptoms of OP poisoning, first aid, and the use of proper personal protective equipment. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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A hantavirus risk control program for employers and workers |
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Contains guidelines for employers to prevent hantavirus infections and to implement a risk control program to minimize potential worker exposure to hantavirus. Includes recommended work procedures. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Coping with critical incident stress at work |
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Explains how critical incidents, such as an on-the-job accident that injures or kills a worker, can affect the emotional health of workers and their job performance. Explains what critical incident stress is and how employers can help workers suffering from it. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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WorkSafe magazine |
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Informs workers and employers of occupational health and safety issues. Published six times a year. Includes current and past issues. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Take care: how to develop and implement a workplace violence program |
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Offers guidance to businesses on how to develop and implement a program to prevent violence in the workplace. Reviews regulation, risk assessment, basic elements of a violence prevention program, procedures for preventing violence, and offers sample documents. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis B and C: preventing exposure at work |
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Recommends workplace precautions to prevent exposure to bloodborne diseases. Focuses on employers and workers who are not expected to come in contact with blood and body fluids at work. Covers HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C; how to reduce risk of infection; and safe work practices. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Young worker |
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Offers publications, tools, statistics, news releases, courses, and young worker industry profiles to help workers, employers, unions, educators, parents and youth community groups prevent young worker injuries and illnesses. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Workers' Compensation Board, Northwest Territories and Nunavut |
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Promotes workplace health and safety to workers and employers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Promotes accident prevention, provides compensation, monitors and inspects workplaces, and delivers training. Web site includes information on legislation, programs, courses, publications and events. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board, Northwest Territories and Nunavut |
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Yukon Workers' Compensation, Health and Safety Board |
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Provides workers' compensation services to the workers and employers of the Yukon Territories. Regulates and monitors workplaces and promotes accident and injury prevention. Web site includes publications for employers and workers, safety bulletins, and policies. |
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Source: Yukon Workers' Compensation, Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) |
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Work-life compendium 2001: 150 Canadian statistics on work, family & well-being |
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Reports on Canadian work-life facts, statistics and trends on topics such as changes in Canadian families, labour force participation patterns, organizational and workplace change, work structure and work time, child care and eldercare, work-life issues for employees and employers, and labour legislation. |
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Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW) |
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Walk and roll: a guide to active transportation to, from and at the workplace |
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Describes a guide which helps workplaces promote the use of non-motorized modes of travel to and from work, such as walking or cycling. This guide provides planning and implementation tools, such as checklists, questionnaires, and assessment forms. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Go for Green |
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Flexible work arrangements |
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Answers questions on flexible work, benefits to workplaces, issues that should be considered when designing a flexible work policy, and examples of common arrangements, such as job sharing or compressed work week. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Work/life balance |
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Answers questions on work-life balance initiatives in the workplace, the benefits for employers, how to implement initiatives, and some steps for setting up a program.
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick |
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Promotes a safe and healthy work environment. Provides prevention, assessment, compensation, and rehabilitiation services to workplaces, employers, and injured workers in New Brunswick. Web site includes news and events, legislation, research initiatives, programs and services, and publications.
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Source: Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick (WHSCC) |
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Workplace programs, policies and practices (work-life balance) |
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Describes and provides examples of various work-life policies, programs and practices in workplaces. Topics include dependent care initiatives, workplace flexibility, reduction of working time, work-life stress management, and leave and benefits. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Safety at work |
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Provides injury prevention information for workers and employers in various industries such as construction and health care. Includes safety bulletins, and health and safety information on topics such first aid and ergonomics. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Workers' Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island |
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Provides workers' compensation services to the workers and employers of Prince Edward Island. Advocates safe and healthy workplaces and standards to promote health and safety in the workplace. Web site includes news, legislation, publications, and course and event information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island |
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Workplace and employee survey compendium |
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Reports on the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES). Topics include workplace organizational practices and changes such as information sharing, and non-standard workplace arrangements such as flexible hours. Data obtained from employees and workplaces is compared. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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WorkSafe best practices booklets |
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Profiles Alberta companies who have developed and implemented effective health and safety programs and highlights best practices, provides tips, and contact information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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2000 Workplace active living: a needs assessment |
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Reports on how workplace wellness practitioners understand workplace active living, what are the determinants of active living at work, and what are practitioners' information and services needs. Offers recommendations. |
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Source: Alberta Centre for Active Living |
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Beyond the smoke-free workplace |
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Discusses the costs to employers of productivity losses due to smoking by employees and reports on corporate smoking-cessation programs in Canada. |
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Source: Canadian Lung Association |
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety |
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Promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice to all parties about occupational health and safety. Offers Inquiries Service to Canadians on specific health and safety issues in the workplace. Provides access to a wide range of publications, databases and information products. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Web information service |
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Offers fee-for-service subscriptions to online databases of health, safety, and environmental information. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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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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How can I make my home and workplace more accessible? |
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Lists tips for making the home and workplace accessible and safe. Includes a list of provincial/territorial home accessibility programs and resources. Prepared by the Saskatchewan Abilities Council. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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How does employment affect mental health? |
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Briefly discusses how unemployment can lead to mental health problems and provides suggestions on how employers can create mentally healthy workplaces. Prepared by the Canadian Mental Health Association (National Office). |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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How is working related to health? |
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Discusses how work can affect an individual's health. Looks at the effects of unemployment, job status, social support at work, job stress, and control over one's work and makes policy suggestions for reducing the negative effects of work on health. Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Industrial Accident Prevention Association |
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Offers educational services, training, and consulting to help Ontario companies create safe, healthy, and productive workplaces. Web site includes information on the association's products, services, and training courses. |
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Source: Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) |
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Protocol for protecting emergency responders from communicable disease |
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Provides paramedics, fire fighters, and police and others involved in emergency situations with a standard procedure on how to deal with exposure to blood and airborne infectious agents such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, TB, and meningococcal bacteria. |
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Source: British Columbia Ministry of Health Planning |
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Workplace health system - The small business health model |
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Describes a seven-step, community-based approach for small businesses to get involved in workplace health promotion.
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Source: Health Canada |
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Smoking and the bottom line: the costs of smoking in the workplace |
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Reports on the costs of employing a worker who smokes compared to a non-smoking employee. Considers factors of increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, increased life insurance premiums, and smoking area costs. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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The farm business health model: a guide to developing and implementing the workplace health system for farm business |
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Describes a seven-step, community-based approach to workplace health promotion in the farming industry, for both farm owners and employees. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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Violence in the workplace |
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Answers questions on workplace violence, including physical, verbal, and sexual violence. Topics covered include work-related factors that increase the risk of violence, occupational groups most at risk, how to assess the risk of violence in a particular workplace, and measures to prevent workplace violence. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Work and pregnancy do mix |
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Reports on the need, activities, strategy and recommendations of an Algoma Best Start workplace health promotion initiative to inform pregnant women of reproductive health risks in the workplace. |
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Source: Best Start |
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Work schedules |
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Offers a series of information on designing working schedules different from the most common 9 to 5. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Workplace health promotion program implementation |
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Details the need, activities, strategy and recommendations of a Best Start Barrie workplace health promotion program. Offers a case study perspective on the implementation of a program promoting awareness of low birthweight risk factors, using Health Canada's Workplace Health System as a model. |
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Source: Best Start |
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Workplace smoking: trends, issues and strategies |
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Examines trends and issues related to smoking in the workplace. Looks at the exposure of non-smokers to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the workplace and smoking restrictions. Provides information and analysis for planning further reductions of ETS exposure in the workplace. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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What can a workplace do to address substance abuse issues? |
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Discusses how substance abuse can cause problems at work and describes how workplaces can develop a workplace substance abuse policy. Prepared by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Work and family |
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Contains excerpts from two books. 'The Manager's Work-Family Toolkit' outlines how to create a supportive work environment. 'From the kitchen table to the boardroom table : the Canadian family and the workplace' analyzes the conflict between work and family. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Vanier Institute of the Family (VIF) |
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Workplace learnings about woman abuse: a guide for change II |
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Identifies common challenges organizations have faced in making woman abuse a workplace issue, including reaching out to women of diverse groups, facilitating the involvement of men, and creating a workplace initiative on woman abuse. |
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Source: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (NCFV) |
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Active living at work |
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Promotes the benefits of active living in the workplace, summarizes related research, describes what works and how to get started, and offers a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in their own organizations. |
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Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) |
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Aging workers |
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Answers questions on issues related to aging workers and the workplace including special accommodations, health and safety, work performance, physical changes and work, learning and cognitive functions, and training. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Healthy eating at work |
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Answers questions on how to start a workplace healthy eating program. Offers sample topics, tips for snacks, and food to offer at meetings. Looks at how the workplace can affect the way people eat and whether some jobs have specific nutrition concerns.
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Aging workforce |
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Offers organizations information on the challenges of an aging workforce, key research and studies, and retirement options information. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Collective agreements and older workers in Canada |
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Identifies and analyzes provisions contained in major Canadian collective agreements that may have a direct effect on the working conditions of older workers. Evaluates various issues such as work-time organization, economic security, and transition to retirement. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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The 2001 national work–life conflict study: report one |
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Examines how work-life factors such as time in work, time in home chores, and child care responsibilities have changed over time in Canada. Includes background information on the topic of work-life balance, describes the 2001 survey sample, and outlines the research methodology used in the study. |
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Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) |
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Bullying in the workplace |
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Looks at the issues of bullying in the workplace including psychological violence, the effects of bullying, typical perpetrators and targets, prevention and the advantages of workplace policies.
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Source: Canada Safety Council |
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Bullying in the workplace |
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Answers questions on workplace bullying and its effects on the worker and the workplace. Offers examples of bullying and suggestions on what can be done if a worker feels bullied, or subjected to any form of harassment. Describes what the employer can do, and what’s involved in a workplace violence prevention program. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Anti-harassment policies for the workplace: an employer's guide |
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Includes model anti-harassment policies, guidelines, and checklists to assist federally regulated employers meet legislative requirements. Describes workplace harassment, and how to eliminate or minimize it in the workplace. |
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Source: Canadian Human Rights Commission |
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The business case for physical activity in the workplace |
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Outlines the benefits of workplace physical activity programs and suggests how workplaces can create environments that foster employee participation. |
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Source: Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute (CFLRI) |
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Making it work with active living in the workplace |
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Offers "how to" information for those workplaces in the preliminary stages of active living program planning and development. Includes practical ideas and approaches, leadership, program planning, marketing and promotion, and evaluation. |
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Source: Leisure Information Network |
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Building the committment : a policy approach: active living in the workplace |
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Offers workplaces information to help them in the active living policy-building process - starting out, writing a policy statement, and evaluation. Includes "how-to" tips and suggestions for ensuring long-term organizational commitment to active living, as well as sample active living policy statements. |
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Source: Leisure Information Network |
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Stress in the workplace |
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Discusses stress in the workplace, contributing factors, strategies for coping, and suicidal behaviours in the workplace. |
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Source: Centre for Suicide Prevention |
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Bereavement in the workplace |
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Looks at issues related to workplace bereavement and offers some strategies and resources for helping staff members who have been bereaved. |
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Source: Centre for Suicide Prevention
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Sexual harassment |
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Lists resources related to sexual harassment in the workplace, including legal decisions and their ramifications for workplace harassment policy. |
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Source: Ontario Women's Justice Network |
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Shift work and health |
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Reports on the characteristics of shift workers, and compares their stress factors and health behaviours to those of regular daytime workers. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Long working hours and health |
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Examines the relationship between long working hours, depression, and changes in health behaviours such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and exercise. Based on data from the National Population Health Survey. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Work stress and health |
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Discusses the stress experienced by Canadian workers. Looks at relationship between job strain, job insecurity, physical demands, low co-worker support, and four health outcomes: migraine, work injury, high blood pressure, and psychological distress. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Training and tools |
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Provides information about tools and training programs for workplaces to address issues of mental health and mental illness in the workplace. |
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Source: Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division (CMHA OD) |
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Understanding the risks of musculoskeletal injury (MSI): an educational guide for workers on sprains, strains and other MSIs |
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Provides information on musculoskeletal injury (MSI) to help workers, employers, and health and safety committees recognize signs and symptoms, potential health effects and treatment. Identifies high risk jobs, and risk factors such as force, repetition, and posture. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Voices of Canadians: seeking work-life balance |
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Compiles comments from Canadian workers on how they feel about the stress they’re facing in their daily lives as they seek to balance work and family. Comments are drawn from those provided by participants in Health Canada’s 2001 National Work-Life Conflict Study. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Fairness in families, schools and workplaces: implications for healthy relationships in these environments |
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Examines how the concepts of fairness, legitimacy, and consent in human relationships influence health. Analyzes studies to find common links between these three factors in families, school, and workplaces. Examines what should be done to promote health in and through these institutions. |
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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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Harassment in the workplace |
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Outlines the Treasury Board's policy on the prevention and resolution of harassment in the workplace. Provides a definition, examples of what generally constitutes harassment, suggestions for workers on what to do if they’re being harassed or if they’ve been accused of harassment. |
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Source: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat |
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How can scents affect my health in the workplace? |
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Lists the symptoms of health problems caused by scented products, identifies some sources of scented products, and discusses how to make a workplace scent-free. Prepared by the Canadian Centre for Occupational and Health Safety. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Injury/illness and return to work/function: a practical guide for physicians |
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Assists physicians and other health professionals in managing the return to work/function of patients following an injury or illness. Highlights collaboration with other workplace parties (e.g. employers), effective communication, and how to develop a return to work plan. |
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Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) |
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Return to work bibliography |
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Lists articles providing information on return to work issues. Covers disability management, ergonomics, psychosocial factors, recurrences, and workplace health topics. |
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Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) |
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Managing shiftwork |
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Discusses the hazards of shiftwork to help employers, health and safety committees, and workers identify and control the risks to health and social well-being. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Setting up an occupational health and safety program: a guide |
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Outlines how to write and develop an occupational health and safety program which covers the identification and control of hazards, and emergency response. Includes a discussion of related issues such as return to work programs. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Worksafe Saskatchewan |
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Lists occupational health and safety resources designed to help Saskatchewan workers and employers prevent injuries and illnesses. Web site includes resources on specific hazards, duties, legislation, stress, WHMIS, and industry specific issues. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Work and family balance |
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Describes a program that works with Saskatchewan people, organizations, businesses, and communities to help develop, implement, and maintain work and family balance strategies. Includes news, events, recent research, publications, and examples of family friendly organizations. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Canadian Labour and Business Centre |
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Offers a national forum for discussion and research on labour market and skills issues, with participants from labour, business, government, and education. Aims to improve business and labour practices in Canada and to provide public policy advice. Website includes publications, news updates, and event information. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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Viewpoints 2000: the healthy workplace |
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Reports on the results of the Canadian Labour and Business Centre Leadership Survey, which included questions related to the healthy workplace. Discusses the key indicators of a healthy workplace, trends, changes in workplace health and safety, and how to reduce health hazards at work. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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Issues of workplace health and wellness: case studies |
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Lists a series of case studies that document and analyze innovative healthy workplace practices of various Canadian organizations which differ in size, location, sector, and union/non-union status. Includes a summary of key conclusions derived from these case studies. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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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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A fine balance: a manager's guide to workplace well-being
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Provides advice and tools for improving workplace well-being. Aims to help managers improve their own well-being and the well-being of their staff. Covers topics such as work-life balance, time and workload management, the physical work environment, alternative office designs, and stress management. |
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Source: Canada School of Public Service |
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Active living at work |
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Answers questions on active living and how it benefits workers and the workplace. Offers examples of activities and strategies for increasing participation in, developing, and maintaining a workplace physical activity program. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health And Safety (CCOHS) |
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Stretching: at the workstation |
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Answers questions on how to do stretching at the workstation to reduce the strain of working at a computer for long periods of time. Offers illustrated examples of stretches for the hands, forearms, neck, shoulders, back, side, and legs. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Safe work newsletters |
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Offers current and back issues of a quarterly newsletter which features articles addressing health and safety issues and legal concerns. |
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Source: Manitoba Labour and Immigration, Workplace Safety and Health Division |
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Guide to nutrition promotion in the workplace |
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Aims to help practitioners promote, implement, and support workplace nutrition programs. Includes step-by-step guidelines, a list of Ontario-based resources and programs, workplace nutrition assessment tools and sample policies. |
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Source: Nutrition Resource Centre |
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Part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces |
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Profiles the frequency and distribution of part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces. Examines the relationships between workplace characteristics or worker/job characteristics and employee and workplace outcomes.
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Work-life conflict in Canada in the new millenium: a status report |
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Profiles work-life conflict in Canada during 2001 and reviews changes during previous decade. Traces the impact of work-life conflict on Canadian organizations, families and employees, and notes the effects of gender, job type, sector of employment and dependent care status. |
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Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) |
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Workplace health promotion: assessing employees' health-related needs |
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Provides a background on workplace health promotion and current trends. Outlines steps to develop a workplace health promotion program including a needs assessment. Includes references and an inventory of workplace needs assessment tools. |
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Source: Elgin-St. Thomas Health Unit |
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Healthy workplaces and productivity: a discussion paper |
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Examines factors in an organization and the work environment which positively affect the health of employees. Discusses issues such as job control, communication, supportive supervision, work-life balance and wellness. Explores the relationship between healthy workplaces and productivity. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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How Canada stacks up: the quality of work - an international perspective |
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Compares US, Canadian and European Union workplaces on four aspects of job quality: work-life balance; health and well-being; skills development; and career and employment security. Also summarizes information about satisfaction with working conditions. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Investing in comprehensive workplace health promotion - the Healthy Workplace Initiative |
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Briefly outlines the business case for comprehensive workplace health promotion and builds a link between the workplace and chronic disease. |
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Source: Canadian Diabetes Association |
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Men's and women's quality of work in the new Canadian economy |
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Examines differences in contemporary employment patterns for men and women, gender differences in expectations, expectations and job characteristics for individuals with and without post-secondary education, and the impact of technology on wokers. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Job quality in non-profit organizations |
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Compares job quality in three economic sectors: for profit, non-profit in quasi-public (quango) industries, and non-profit. Based on 1999 Statistics Canada data. Provides information on working arrangements, earnings, access to benefits, and job satisfaction. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Putting diabetes on the business agenda |
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Outlines business case for workplace health promotion initiatives. |
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Source: Canadian Diabetes Association |
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