Links > Resources: Creating Healthy Workplaces

Building the Case for Physical Activity @ Work

• Active Living at Work: This Public Health Agency of Canada website talks about the benefits of being active in the workplace and provides a template for developing a business case for workplace active living. This resource is large and may take some time to download.

• Healthy Workplaces: These articles on Alberta’s Healthy U website explain why investing in employee health and wellness pays off.

• Why Be Active at Work?: This British Heart Foundation website provides a great list of reasons for being active at work.

Promoting a Healthy Workplace

• Activity Friendly Workplaces: This great New Zealand website gives you lots of information on cycling to work, workplace wellness, and many resources and tools. This resource is large and may take some time to download.

• British Heart Foundation: Think Fit! Be Active! Active @ Work: The Brits have an excellent website loaded with tools, information, resources, success stories, frequently asked questions and links.

• BC's Active Communities Workplace Workbook: You'll need to register to download BC's Active Workplace Workbook, but it's free of charge. On page 54, you will find examples of policies that encourage employees to be active. Use the information, resources and tools to help develop and implement a workplace physical activity initiative that best fits your workplace setting. 

• Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion.  Resources include the following:

• An Introduction to Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion (pdf, 1 Mb, 44 pgs)

• Influencing the Organizational Environment to Create Healthy Workplaces (pdf, 1 Mb, 41 pgs)

• Evaluating Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion (pdf, 1 Mb, 35 pgs)

• Recommended and Promising Practices for Situational Assessment Tools.

• Catalogue of Situational Assessment Tools

• Catalogue of Well-Regarded Interventions
  

• Healthy Workplace Resources, NQI The National Quality Institute provides healthy workplace assessment tools (one especially for small workplaces) and other resources in an easily searchable and friendly website.  

Work-Life Balance

• Workable Solutions: Stress in the workplace is becoming a greater concern to employers. Benefits Canada's first stress report shows what companies can do to ease the pressure facing their employees.
  

• Work-Life Balance: It's A Matter of Time: Getting the best performance from your employees means making sure they're getting the most out of their lives at work, at home and in their communities.