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Healthy Workplace

What is a Healthy Workplace?

A healthy workplace is a place where individuals and the organization both thrive and take responsibility for improving their own health, as well as creating a healthy workplace environment.

(Source: Canadian Healthy Workplace Council and Ontario Canada’s Healthy Workplace Week Committee, 2006.)

How We Can Help You

Our services are free and directed to those people who influence employee health and wellness in the workplace. We can help:
  • Demonstrate the value of being a healthy workplace
  • Develop a customized action plan for creating a healthy workplace
  • Offer resources, education and networking opportunities
  • Modify the work environment to make the healthy choice the easy choice

For more information about our services, download the Healthy Workplaces Brochure (pdf) or view our resource listings by topic:

Please note: our services are available to workplaces that have employees in Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Glanbrook, Flamborough, Dundas and Ancaster Ontario.  If you have employees outside of the City of Hamilton, please contact us as per below for a referral to the appropriate Public Health Department.

I would like to...

Register for the March 24 Healthy Workplace Innovation Series session

Promote the Driven to Quit Challenge to employees

Learn more about Diabetes Prevention Classes

Find out which workplaces won the Healthy Workplace Recognition Awards in 2009 and why

Arrange to have the Women Health Educators do a free presentation for employees

View past issues of the Healthy Workplace Bulletin

Get answers to my workplace health and safety concerns

Healthy Workplace Topics A to Z

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Contact Information*
 

Address: 71 Main Street West
Upper Ottawa Office
Hamilton, ON L8P 4Y5
Phone: 905-546-2424 ext. 3065
Fax: 905-546-3658
Email: workplace@hamilton.ca

* Please note: for health and safety related inquiries, please contact the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety through The Inquiries & Client Services.
Healthy Workplace
Topics Hotlist:


Smoking/tobacco-free living

Sun safety

Healthy eating

Pandemic planning

Aging workers

Violence in the Workplace Prevention Procedure

 

Last updated: January 28, 2010