Key Resources

ACTIVE LIVING

ParticipACTION Programs

ParticipACTION collaborates with partners across the sport, physical activity, and recreation sectors—as well as government and corporate sponsors—to encourage people in Canada to sit less and move more.

Active Living at Work

Active living is a lifestyle that embraces physical activity as a regular part of daily routines. It’s about finding opportunities to move—whether at work, school, home, or during your free time

Trans Canada Trail

Welcome to Trans Canada Trail. Explore Canada’s national trail, the longest multi-use trail system in the world.

DISABILITY MANAGEMENT

SunLife Workplace Health & Wellness

SunLife is here to help you protect what matters, grow what you’ve earned, and build your legacy with confidence.

Manulife Wellness Solutions

Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. 

JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS & PUBLICATIONS

Benefits Canada

Benefits Canada is the country’s original and most influential HR, benefits, pension and investment brand for key decision-makers in Canadian workplaces.

Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine

Since 1963, COS has been the leading voice in safety; delivering industry leading editorial, news, events, and multi-media solutions for safety professionals in all industries.

GOHNET (Global Occupational Health Network) Newsletter

OHNET produces a regular newsletter which contains useful information. onOHS related activities and initiatives around the globe. 

Ontario Health Promotion eBulletin

Three strong females in the healthcare field we have made it our goal to educate and inform the general public.

Workplace Strategies for Mental Health Media Centre

Workplace Strategies for Mental Health news releases, articles and research. Subscribe to be among the first to hear the latest from Workplace Strategies.

HEALTH INFORMATION

Canadian Institute for Health Information

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. 

My Health Finder

Trusted information to help your family stay healthy.

Health Canada

Health Canada is responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health. It ensures that high-quality health services are accessible, and works to reduce health risks.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Public Health Agency of Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Their activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and promoting health, well-being and equity.

Sleep On It Canada

A Canadian Public Health Campaign on Sleep.

HEALTH PROMOTION

Healthy Workplace Standard

The Healthy Workplace Standard by Excellence Canada provides a strategic framework for adaptation and harmonizes various practices into an aligned management system for pursuing organizational goals. This strategic approach helps build and sustain a culture of excellence.

Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute (CFLRI) is a long-standing, national research organization concerned with monitoring physical activity and sport participation among Canadians and sharing knowledge about the importance of leading healthy, active lifestyles.
Healthy Canadians

Health information including food, nutrition, diseases, vaccination, drugs, health products, product safety, health and safety, healthy living, Indigenous health, health system, science.

World Health Organization

Dedicated to the well-being of all people and guided by science, the World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life. 

HEALTHY EATING

Cronometer: Calorie Counter

Proudly Canadian and built in Revelstoke, BC — Cronometer is locally owned and globally trusted for accurate, powerful nutrition tracking. Cronometer is more than a calorie counter. Cronometer is a powerful health and fitness app that makes it easy to track your diet and exercise habits. With an extensive database of over 1.2 million verified foods, you can easily log your meals and get a detailed breakdown of the calories, vitamins & minerals you’re consuming

Canada's Food Guide

Canada’s Food Guide is a government resource developed by Health Canada to help Canadians make healthy food choices and maintain overall well-being. It provides practical guidance on what to eat, how to eat, and how to build healthy eating habits.

Healthy Eating at Work

When a workplace can help employees to make wise food choices, as part of a workplace health program, it can influence the person’s long-term health and wellness.

Dietitian's Canada

Dietitians are passionate about the power of food to transform lives and support better health. With a commitment to science-based guidance, dietitians cut through trends, fads, and misinformation to provide personalized, practical advice you can trust.

MENTAL HEALTH 

Mental Health at Work- Excellence Canada

Our framework aligns with the requirements of the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. It ensures success through a focus on policies, practices and programs to achieve measurable results and create a healthier and more productive workplace.

Canadian Mental Health Association

With 330 community locations, CMHA is a nationwide organization that promtoes mental health and supports people recovering from mental illness. 

 

Centre for Addiction & Mental Health

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. 

Controlling Anger Before it Controls You

Anger can make you feel as though you’re at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion. Learn how to control it.

Workplace Stress - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety

Workplace stress is the combination of harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the worker and the amount of control a worker has over meeting these demands.

Bell Let's Talk Toolkit

Bell Let’s Talk has a vision of a Canada where everyone can get the mental health support they need. 

Elephant in the Room Campaign

Elephant in the Room is a national anti-stigma campaign designed to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness.

Move for Mental Health- Defeat Depression

The Defeat Depression Campaign empowers Canadians to take action against mental illness, dismantle stigma, and support mental health programs through engaging activities like walks, personal challenges, and community events. Together, we’re creating a future where no one faces mental illness alone. 

Mental Health First Aid- Mental Health Commission

The MHFA Canada program aims to improve mental health literacy, and provide the skills and knowledge to help people better manage potential or developing mental health problems in themselves, a family member, a friend or a colleague.

Workplace Solutions for Mental Health

Employee mental health and wellness has become a growing concern. Businesses are looking to design benefits programs that offer employees more support in this area. 

Road to Mental Readiness

The Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) is a performance and mental health training and education program developed by the Canadian Forces Health Services Directorate of Mental Health to improve well-being and short-term performance, while mitigating any negative long-term mental health problems for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel and their families.

Sick Not Weak Campaign

Help end the stigma surronding mental illness. 

Beyond Blue Online Resources

Good work helps mental health and wellbeing. It can contribute to your daily activity. Your sense of purpose. Your income. And your social connection. But poor working conditions can harm your mental health and wellbeing.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY 

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has a vision: the elimination of work-related illnesses and injuries.

Institute for Work & Health

The Institute for Work & Health (IWH) is an independent, multidisciplinary, not-for-profit research organization located in Ontario, Canada. IWH conducts and mobilizes research that supports policy-makers, employers and workers in creating healthy, safe and inclusive work environments.

 

OSH Fact Sheets

Access easy-to-read fact sheets on a wide range of workplace health and safety topics, including hazards, diseases, ergonomics, and health and wellness.

The Workers Health & Safety Centre, Ontario

An Ontario’s official government-designated health and safety training centre with more than 35 years experience, they work to provide essential high-quality training to workers, their representatives, supervisors, and employers, in public and private sector workplaces of every size, industry, and region of the province.

CCHOS: Fatigue Resources

In occupational health and safety, there is not a single definition of fatigue.

SMOKING AND THE WORKPLACE 

Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS): Workplace Policy

This document will cover issues related to smoking restrictions in the workplace including legal obligations and steps to take when instituting a workplace smoking policy. 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE 

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Their mission is to improve the lives of people in Canada who use substances while ensuring safer communities for all.

VIOLENCE PREVENTION 

Bullying in the Workplace

Bullying is usually seen as acts or verbal comments that could psychologically or ‘mentally’ hurt or isolate a person in the workplace.

Violence in the Workplace-Awareness

Workplace violence is a serious issue that affects all business sectors and occupations and the safety and security of every employee and employer. This course is offered FREE of charge by CCOHS to promote the awareness of this very important issue. 

Violence in the Workplace-Establish a Prevention Program

This course introduces managers, supervisors and employees to the key components of an effective workplace violence prevention program, providing them with knowledge and tools to take action to eliminate or minimize the potential for workplace violence.

Violence in the Workplace: Recognize the Risk and Take Action

This course helps frontline supervisors, workers and anyone else with an interest in workplace safety develop a clear understanding of what workplace violence is, the consequences of workplace violence and preventive measures that can be taken.

Take Care: How to Develop and Implement a Workplace Violence Prevention Program

This guide enables employers and workers to implement a program to prevent violence in the workplace

WORK-FAMILY-LIFE ISSUES 

Nemours KidsHealth

Nemours KidsHealth aim to give families the tools and confidence to make the best health choices.

Institute of the Family: Q&A

This platform provides answers to common questions about family, marriage, family problems, parent-child relationships, child rearing, and more. 

CCOHS: Work-Life Balance

Work-life conflict occurs when the overall demands of work and personal roles are incompatible in some respect making participation in one role more difficult by participation in the other role.

WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION 

Healthy Organization Resources: Graham Lowe Organizational & Workplace Consulting

Graham Lowe presents a suite of resources designed to help organizations assess their current health and strategically plan meaningful improvements in employee well-being and workplace culture. These tools are practical, adaptable, and suitable for individuals, teams, leadership groups, or committees.

CCHOS: Healthy Workplace

CCOHS defines a healthy workplace as one where people feel valued, respected, and satisfied, with connections between physical safety, psychological well-being, and productivity Wikipedia+9CCOHS+9CCOHS+9.

Workplace Strategies for Psychological Health & Safety

Run by Canada Life, this platform offers hundreds of free, evidence-based tools and resources in both English and French to support psychological health and safety in Canadian workplaces Canada.ca+13

WORKPLACE RESEARCH 

Institute for Work & Health

IWH aims to protect and improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of working people, while promoting full and inclusive work participation

Happiness Research Institute

HRI is an independent think tank dedicated to understanding why some societies are happier than others and informing policy and business leaders with data-driven insights to improve overall quality of lifeÂ