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OWHC is helping to facilitate communication among workplace health stakeholders & promote comprehensive approach to create healthy & safe workplaces in ON.

The Ontario Workplace Health Coalition (OWHC) is an incorporated, not-for-profit body; serving as a unifying structure across the province; helping to facilitate communication among workplace health stakeholders; and promoting the importance of using a comprehensive approach to create healthy and safe workplaces in Ontario. With the assistance of members and healthy workplace stakeholders, the Coalition has prepared a Healthy Workplace Handbook intended for use in all Ontario workplaces. It was developed to assist Ontario organizations in initiating and sustaining their own healthy workplace programs. As well,the Coalition has developed a Proposal for an Ontario Comprehensive Workplace Health Strategy. The Proposal supports the development of a strategy for comprehensive workplace health (CWH) at the provincial level and aims to establish a common guideline by which Ontario organizations can integrate CWH into their core business plans.

11/10/2022

➡️ Are you familiar with the work of and the Special Federal Initiative in return-to-work (RTW)/disability management (DM) for Canadian 🇨🇦 Workplaces?

Link in bio to register 🎟

Wolfgang’s keynote will share the support available for Canadian residents in terms of continuing education and designations, as well as the support available for Canadian workplaces to assess their program.

📂 The OWHC 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will follow for OWHC individual and organizational members.

11/02/2022

💡Did you know disability management is a part of the pillars of the Healthy Workplace Model?

Join us on December 1st, 2022 at 10:00 am EST 🗓 for virtual session dedicated to the integration between health promotion (workplace health) and disability management.

📂 The OWHC 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will follow for OWHC individual and organizational members.

Link in bio to register 🎟

In this virtual session, the invites Wolfgang Zimmerman (Executive Director, NIDMAR) to speak on building a culture of accommodation and inclusion for disabled workers, and the Special Federal Initiative in return-to-work (RTW)/disability management (DM) for Canadian Workplaces.

10/28/2022

Public Health Ontario (PHO) provides Snapshots of dynamically linked tables, graphs, and maps with pre-calculated statistics. Snapshots include data on health behaviours such as nutrition and healthy weights, as well as physical activity, and chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions, and diabetes.

As a workplace health professional, snapshots o help you compare public health unit and provincial data, and identify trends over time.

Explore Snapshots here:
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/data-and-analysis/commonly-used-products/snapshots

10/27/2022

Statistics Canada () and the Canadian Institute for Health Information () have launched a collaborative process to identify what measures should be used to report on health and the health system – and then to share this information with Canadians from coast to coast.

This Health Indicators Framework includes 80 indicators measuring health status, non-medical determinants of health, health system performance and community and health system characteristics.

This includes: (self-rated health, , self-esteem, mastery), personal resources (social support, life stress), health behaviours (smoking rate, physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption), and health conditions (body mass index, arthritis, diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, chronic pain, and mood disorders).

Visit the data here:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-221-x/2017003/dd-tdd-eng.htm

10/24/2022

The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS) can generate national estimates and trends over time for over 20 .

It collects data on all residents who are eligible for provincial or territorial health insurance, and can generate national estimates and trends over time. This includes chronic diseases include cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, mental illnesses, and neurological conditions.

--> This is post 1 of 3 in this week, the Monday post, of showcasing public health data tools to provide workplace health professionals with supportive content to reference health outcomes and trends

10/03/2022

How do we know what is good information, and what is not so good? As professionals, around is important, before considering for ourselves, and sharing with others.

Ten questions to ask:

1) Is this written by a qualified or registered health professional?
2) Does the author represent an established or reputable health organization?
3) Is the author free of commercial interests?
4) Does the article include multiple pieces of evidence to back up its claims?
5) Is enough information provided for you to check the background research for yourself?
6) Was the background research based on people similar to yourself?
7) Was the background research based on many people?
8) Are statistics clearly explained?
9) Is this information consistent with health information you have read from other reputable sources?
10) Is a review provided so that you can tell the information is up-to-date?

The more ticks/yes, the more reliable and valid your health information is likely to be.

Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions (Government of Western Australia, 2021)

09/26/2022

Created in 2015, the calls on post-secondary schools to embed into all aspects of campus culture and to lead action and collaboration locally and globally.

Even organizations who are not higher education institutes are eligible to “endorse” the Okanagan Charter, which entails committing to supporting the Health Promoting Campus movement by signing the “Statement of Endorsement.”

For more information about the Okanagan Charter, please visit the Canadian Health Promoting Campuses Network ( ) website.

09/19/2022

Do you or your loved ones to know your risk of having pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes?

To do so, here is the Public Health Agency of Canada's Canadian diabetes risk questionnaire ( ). Knowing your risk can help you to make healthy choices now that will reduce your risk or even prevent you from developing diabetes.

This is important for the OWHC to share as health and lifestyle practices are an element of our healthy workplace model (https://owhc.ca/healthy-workplace-model/) in that of creating an environment that is supportive of and encourages health enhancing personal lifestyle practices.

09/09/2022

Which posters or resource materials are shared in your workplace? Better yet, is the information shared on health and safety boards comprehensive?

Here are 3 areas of comprehensive health and safety, where you can order these materials in print format today:

Health and Safety - Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development [MLTSD], Government of Ontario): https://www.publications.gov.on.ca/browse-catalogues/occupational-health-safety/health-and-safety-awareness-training

Nutrition - Canada’s Food Guide (Health Canada): https://www.hc-publication-sc.hc-sc.gc.ca/paccb-dgapcc/cmcd-dcmc/webpubs.nsf/7?ReadForm&cat=00030&lang=eng&

Mental Health - ConnexOntario (Government of Ontario and Ontario Health): https://www.connexontario.ca/resource-materials

09/06/2022

Does your comprehensive workplace health strategy consider a technology solution? 📲
Which other types of factors can be considered when communicating with vendors during the process? ✅

08/22/2022

➡️ This week! ⬅️ OWHC Board Member, Monica A. Szabo, BES, OHST, CRSP, ROH, CMM III will open the webinar session and introduce Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to share information on the Health and Safety Excellence Program ( )

This webinar session will share how you can reduce the risk of injuries and illnesses in your workplace and build a stronger health and safety culture, while earning rebates on your WSIB premiums – doubled for smaller businesses in 2022, including doing so through 🔑

Join us through registering through Eventbrite (link in bio!)

08/15/2022

To promote health and safety, we are excited to invite to host a Health and Safety Excellence Program virtual (webinar) session with us!
Link in bio to register for this virtual session on August 24th at 10:00 EDT.
These speakers will share how your business of any size, especially small business, can earn rebates, recognition, and professional services. As a component to do so, workplace health promotion is included and will be covered.

08/08/2022

Did you know is one of four elements of the Healthy Workplace Model❓

On August 24th at 10:00 AM EDT 🗓, we are excited to have Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB - ) speakers share with us the WSIB Health and Safety Excellence Program ( ).

➡️Specifically, for our audience, this session will feature a description of how businesses can satisfy the workplace health promotion topic of the HSEp!

To register, visit the Eventbrite link in description 🖥

08/02/2022

On August 24th Helen Grasso and Tyler Beauchamp will join us for a Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) ( ) webinar on the Health and Safety Excellence program ( ).

For our audience, a few details about the workplace health promotion topic of the HSEp will be shared!

To register, visit this Eventbrite link:
https://lnkd.in/g8T7QJwi

07/18/2022

What’s it going to be for your answer to question 19 of the Disability Management Self Assessment ( )? 📑

🏅Health promotion and wellness is one of 16 elements within disability prevention as a universal key success factor for the assessment.

The DMSA is designed to allow individual organizations to undertake a basic self-assessment of their current return to work and disability management efforts and obtain a report that provides an overview of their current performance.

Learn more here: https://www.idmsc.org/dmsa/background.php?referral=1

07/11/2022

Hello workplace health and allied professionals! Have you tried ’s Public Health Agency of Canada free online course?

It’s jam-packed with interactive content, quizzes, and resources.

If you would like to create an account and are not a government employee, please use zeros for the “PRI” field, your company/organization name for the “other” field and any character in the “classification” field.

Register here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/understanding-food-labels/nutrition-labelling-course.html

06/28/2022

In this episode of the OWHC Chats podcast, we speak with Jude Drory, Senior Corporate Partnership Officer, .

Did you know? June is Stroke Month. . 1 person experiences a stroke in Canada every 9 minutes.

This episode highlights Heart & Stroke’s mission to further the work of promoting prevention and awareness and enhancing treatment and recovery for people across Canada.

Jude shares many practical awareness tips for Stroke prevention and recovery which you can bring to your workplaces, community, and loved ones.

Download the FAST toolkit here ( ):
https://owhc.ca/fast-toolkit/

The podcast episode:
https://youtu.be/bl9UyrRL-S4

06/21/2022

We repeat, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts!

Ask yourself, has your organization taken a approach integrating wellbeing and safety efforts?

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