Workplace Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
A thriving workplace is built on a foundation of health, safety, and wellbeing. When employees and employers prioritize these values, it fosters a culture of resilience, collaboration, and innovation. By addressing physical safety, promoting mental health, and ensuring inclusive practices, organizations can create environments where everyone feels valued and supported. Discover resources that equip you with strategies to enhance workplace wellness and productivity.
Tools and Resources
Resources for a healthy and safe workplace
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS): Healthy Workplaces
CCOHS offers a comprehensive collection of resources aimed at promoting health and safety in the workplace, including fact sheets, toolkits, and guidelines on various topics such as mental health, ergonomics, and workplace wellness.
Government of Canada: Workplace Health and Safety
This federal resource provides information on workplace hazards, rights and responsibilities, injury prevention, and the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), supporting both employees and employers in maintaining a safe work environment.
Resources for promoting workplace mental health
Mental Health Commission of Canada: The National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
A set of voluntary guidelines, tools, and resources designed to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work, helping employers create a psychologically healthy workplace.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH): Workplace Mental Health Resource Centre
CAMH offers a digital hub with tools and resources to help business leaders learn more about workplace mental health, including strategies to support employee wellbeing and create mentally healthy work environments.
Resources for Workplace Wellbeing
Wellness Works Canada: Education and Resources
This platform provides workplace wellness education, tools, and resources such as evaluation templates, health tips, and training programs to support the development of effective wellness strategies for organizations.
Resources for HR Practitioners
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Whether you are helping individuals with personal change or helping an entire organization by establishing a workplace health program, you can find information, tools and resources to support workers and employers in achieving greater health, balance and wellness.
Related Articles and Blog Posts
- Art of the Workplace: A Report on the Positive Impact of Arts and Culture in the Office Environment. This study by Brooksfield Properties focuses on what makes a ‘happy’ workplace — how we might rethink the office environment and working culture to better support humans flourishing. The report's findings suggest that workers want to work in spaces enriched by art, culture and wellness, which they believe promote creativity, contentment, socializing and learning.
Related Tools and Resources
- Respectful Workplaces in the Arts. Respectful Workplaces in the Arts addresses harassment in the workplace, including sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and violence and seeks to provide the tools, resources and training to prevent harassment of any kind, and build respectful workplaces as the norm in the cultural sector. Outcomes of the project include workshops (which organizations can request) and the Canadian Code of Conduct for the Performing Arts.
