Promotes the benefits of active living in the workplace, summarizes the research that has been done, provides some information about what works and how to get started, and provides a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in their own organizations.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Provides users with access to a personal Activity Tracker to set personal physical activity goals. After choosing the kinds of activities you like to do, you can track how physically active you are every day.

Source: Alberta Centre for Active Living

Reports on a survey of Alberta workplace wellness programs which have included a physical activity component. Includes profiles of participants and organizations, program elements, program marketing and management strategies.

Source: Alberta Centre for Active Living

Explains the nature and importance of comprehensive workplace health. Outlines the steps in creating a workplace health program and writing a healthy workplace policy. Provides information and references on many health topics of interest to workplaces. Link requires PDF reader.

Source: Middlesex-London Health Unit

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.

Source: Leisure Information Network

Provides useful ideas, resources and tools to implement healthy workplace activity programs.

Source: ActNowBC

Provides ideas for making healthy food choices and adding physical activities that will help in the planning of meetings, events and conferences that are healthy for participants.

Source: ActNowBC

Offers a series of information on workplace health issues including stress, work-life balance, violence in the workplace, substance abuse and bullying.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Provides information for workplaces to implement healthy living programs and policies. Focuses on four common preventable risk factors for chronic disease: tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating and stress. Offers programming examples.

Source: County of Lambton, Community Health Services Department

Provides tips to employers for planning healthy choices at workplace functions. Offers suggestions for nutritious food choices, active living, smoke-free environments, limiting alcohol, and for keeping the event environmentally friendly.

Source: City of Ottawa

Offers a presentation on how workplaces can develop workplace health promotion programs.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Source: Alberta Centre for Active Living

Outlines the benefits of stretching at the workstation, and recommends how to minimize the strain of working at a computer for long periods of time. Provides illustrated examples of stretches for the hands, forearms, neck, shoulders, back, side, and legs, that can be done at the workstation.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Outlines the benefits of workplace physical activity programs and suggests how workplaces can create environments that foster employee participation.

Source: Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute (CFLRI)

Offers guidance to setting up and running a six-week walking program in the workplace. Provides background information, tools, posters, and tips.

Source: Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit

Offers a package of resources relevant to workplace health, including fact sheets, pamphlets, and a monthly theme calendar. Topics focus on the workplace health promotion and information on healthy living choices such as healthy eating, active living, etc.

Source: County of Lambton, Community Health Services Department