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Healthy Workplaces

Last updated on January 23, 2024

Canadian workers spend an average of 10.5 hours a day at work and commuting to and from work!  Workplaces are an ideal setting for promoting healthy behaviours, and preventing disability and disease through healthy, safe work environments. Even more, healthy work environments improve productivity and reduce costs related to absenteeism, lost productivity, turnover, workers' compensation, and medical and disability claims.

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We partner with organizations to inform and enable the creation of healthier workplaces.

Healthy Workplaces

Healthy Workplaces is a free comprehensive workplace wellness program that offers businesses and organizations resources and support they need to create healthy workplaces. It is a program of the Canadian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon.

Learn More

Improving health and well-being opportunities in a work setting helps employers and employees create workplaces that support healthy choices and well-being. Here are some resources:

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Workplace Health and Wellness Guide

This 190-page pocket guide will help establish a workplace health program (or improve an existing one) by providing information, tips, charts, checklists and illustrations.

Safety on the Job is Everyone's Business

Key worker, supervisor and employer safety tips from WorkSafeBC.

Working on Wellness

Working on Wellness gives employers in industrial and resource sectors a program especially designed for men. The resources include guides, posters and tip sheets that have been tested at worksites in oil and gas, construction and forestry sectors in B.C., and the mining sector in the Northwest Territories. The materials get men thinking about their health as another tool in their belt.

WorkSafeBC

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of this province, consulting with and educate employers and workers and enforcing the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation.

UPnGO is a is a physical activity program for the workplace from ParticipACTION. It helps people make choices about activity, and rewards them for adding more steps to the workday.

If someone you work with is quitting smoking, here are some tips for friends and family that also apply to co-workers.

Support for British Columbians who want to quit smoking provided 24 hours a day free-of-charge through QuitNow. Call 1-877-455-2233 to learn more or visit the website:

Bike to Work BC encourages people to commute by bicycle before, during and after the annual Bike to Work celebration.