Health Organizations- Healthy People, Healthy Places Workshop (Education Sector)
Health and safety and health and wellness programs share a common goal: ensuring that workers have safe and healthy work environments that support healthy lifestyle behaviours. However, too often, health and safety and health and wellness programs compete for resources, to the detriment of the workers and the organization. This workshop introduces participants to research supporting the business case for creating healthy organizations, models for integrating health and safety and health and wellness, examples from organizations which have successfully created a comprehensive health and wellness program, practical suggestions for expanding a health and safety program to reflect health and wellness principles and programming, as well as low cost (and no cost!) ideas for getting started!