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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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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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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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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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Workplace stress: general |
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Answers questions on stress, good versus bad stress, common stressors at work, health effects, trouble signs, and how to cope with stress. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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What is workplace stress and what can be done about it? |
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Answers questions on workplace stress and what employees and employers can do to reduce stress. Prepared by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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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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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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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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Reducing job stress |
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Defines job stress, describes symptoms and causes, and outlines steps organizations can take to reduce stress and develop a job stress reduction program. |
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Source: Health Care Health and Safety Association of Ontario (HCHSA) |
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The unhealthy Canadian workplace |
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Provides an overview of working conditions in Canada and discusses the direction of current trends. Examines dimensions of job quality such as job security, physical conditions of work, work pace and control, stress, work-life balance, and social relations and participation at work. Compares Canada with the European Union. |
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Source: Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) |
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Enough workplace stress: organizing for change |
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Describes workplace stress, its causes and consequences for workers, and health and safety hazards. Suggests actions, solutions, and strategies to eliminate workplace stress. |
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Source: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) |
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The leadership factor: management practices can make employees sick |
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Discusses the relationship between workplace management practices and psychosocial hazards for employees. Lists factors which contribute to workplace stress, highlights explanatory models, and explores consequences of poor leadership and workplace stress. |
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Source: National Quality Institute (NQI) |
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Does work include children? The effects of the labour market on family income, time and stress |
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Uses the framework of social inclusion to present the case that parental work experiences affect child development through income, time and stress. |
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Source: Laidlaw Foundation |
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Wellness works program |
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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. |
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Source: County of Lambton, Community Health Services Department |
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Improving work organization to reduce injury and illness: social services, stress, violence and workload |
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Discusses factors which contribute to injuries, stress, and health problems for social service workers. Reports on the rates of overwork, burnout, exposure to violence, and bullying in the workplace and recommends methods to improve health and safety. |
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Source: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences |
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Reducing occupational stress: an introductory guide for managers, supervisors and union members |
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Offers a practical guide for healthy organizational change. Identifies the major features of healthy organizational change and suggests how to develop strategies. Includes examples of organizational change efforts. |
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Source: Job Stress Network |
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Healthy living @ work : workplace action guide |
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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. |
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Source: County of Lambton, Community Health Services Department |
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Work-related stress |
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This report presents trends in the risks and consequences of work-related stress, and identifies how these can be prevented. The analysis is based on national surveys and research information available in the EU, as well as recent research findings. Link requires PDF reader. |
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Source: Euorpean Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
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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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Mental health at work…from defining to solving the problem |
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Offers a prevention tool kit to help employers and employees understand mental health issues and provide guidance on policies and programs to address mental health issues in the workplace. The first booklet defines occupational stress and describes the extent of the problem and its consequences for individuals and organizations. The second booklet discusses sources of occupational stress and propses methods to help reduce the negative impacts. The third volume describes the three possible levels of prevention and presents a strategic process for effectively preventing work-related mental health problems and practical tools for facilitating the initiation of action. Link requires pdf reader. |
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Source: Université Laval, Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management
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21st century job quality trends |
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This report uses the best available evidence to assess job quality in Canada in the 21st century.
It focuses on two basic questions:
1) Has economic prosperity resulted in improvements in job
quality? and
2) Can improvements in job quality contribute to sustainable economic prosperity and
Canadians’ overall quality of life? |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks |
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Under pressure: implications of work-life balance and job stress |
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Written by Graham Lowe, this report presents new findings from two national surveys, one of employers and the other of workers, on work-life balance and job stress. It discusses the implications of these issues for employers and points to actions they can take to improve the quality of work life. Work was commissioned by Wilson Banwell Human Solutions. |
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Source: Longwoods Publishing |
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Reducing work-life conflict: What works? What doesn’t? (executive summary) |
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Provides results of a research study investigating the effectiveness of various approaches to balancing work-life conflict, either organizational interventions or individual coping mechanisms.
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Source: Health Canada |
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Canadian media study: voices from the newsroom |
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Reports the results of a cross-Canada survey of media workers on the state of Canadian journalism, newsroom ethics, and on-the-job concerns such as technological change and covergence, changes in the business, staff issues, sexism, health and safety, and burnout.
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Source: Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada |
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Workplace anti-stress guide |
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Describes the causes and effects of workplace stress and outlines personal and organizational strategies for its prevention and reduction. |
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Source: Hospital Employees' Union |
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Étude sur les médias canadiens : vois de la salle des nouvelles |
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L'étude présente les résultats d'un sondage pancanadien auprès des travailleurs des médias sur l'état du journalisme au Canada, l'éthique de la salle des nouvelles, et les préoccupations relatives au travail telles que les changements technologiques et la convergence, les changements dans le secteur du journalisme, la dotation, le sexisme, la santé et la sécurité et l'épuisement professionnel.
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Source: Syndicat canadien des communications, de l’énergie et du papier |
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