Key Resources
Topics
ACTIVE LIVING
ParticipACTION Programs
Active Living at Work
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
Manulife Wellness Solutions
JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS & PUBLICATIONS
Benefits Canada
Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine
GOHNET (Global Occupational Health Network) Newsletter
OHNET produces a regular newsletter which contains useful information. onOHS related activities and initiatives around the globe.Â
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
My Health Finder
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
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.Â
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 HEALTHÂ
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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 & SAFETYÂ
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 WORKPLACEÂ
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.Â
SUBSTANCE ABUSEÂ
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 PREVENTIONÂ
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.Â
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 ISSUESÂ
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.Â
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 PROMOTIONÂ
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 RESEARCHÂ
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
