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A toolkit that provides resources and activities to create healthier work environments









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Workplace Health - Improving Health

Employee Incentives
A Call to Action - Workplaces Take the Challenge
General Health Information
Healthy Workplace Month
Simcoe County Workplace Wellness Network
Success Stories
Health Promotion Calendar
Policy-The Key to a Healthy Workplace Manual

Tell us about your Healthy Steps @ Work activities to receive free promotional items including pens, lunch bags and arm bands.

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Promoting Healthy Employees Improves the Health of Business

The workplace setting has a powerful effect on the health of workers. Job satisfaction and productivity increases when employees are healthy.

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Workplace health has evolved to move beyond focusing only on health and safety to include the organizational culture and lifestyle choices of employees. Whether you are a business owner or an employee Balanced Workplace Health (also known as Comprehensive Workplace Health) will enhance overall health and productivity in your organization.

Benefits of Balanced Workplace Health

Employees

Employers
  • more job satisfaction
  • healthier behaviours
  • less illness and fewer injuries
  • better work life balance
  • better morale
  • improved work environment
  • less absenteeism
  • lower health benefit costs
  • greater productivity
  • attract and retain the best employees
  • increase profits
  • improved work environment

Thanks to a growing body of evidence, today’s workplace health programs are no longer viewed as just a good idea, but rather a crucial investment in an organization’s long-term success.1

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has created a six step model to help workplaces implement a balanced workplace health program. This website includes these steps as well as accompanying resources that will allow you to tailor a program to meet the needs and interests of employees and the organization.

1. The Health Communication Unit, “Making the Case for Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion; Making “Cents” of a Good Idea”, p. 1.

 

 

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