More than Just Hard Hats and Safety Boots: Creating Healthier Work Environments

To achieve high levels of employee productivity, efficiency and morale, leading executives have learned that they need to address workplace health and wellness in an integrated fashion.

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What are the elements of an integrated approach to workplace health? What roles do employers and others play? What are the barriers to achieving a more integrated approach and how can these barriers be overcome?

These are some of the questions that this two-phase study set out to answer. The results of the survey show that key stakeholders, including government, NGOs, labour organizations and various associations representing small businesses, provide assistance and programming to Canadian employers in dealing with workplace health issues.