OHWC's Approach to Workplace Health
Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion can be defined as "an approach to protecting and enhancing the health of employees that relies and builds upon the efforts of employers to create a supportive management under and upon the efforts of employees to care for their own well-being" (Shain, M., Suurvali, H. 2001). The OHWC's vision is that all Ontario workplaces will recognize that employee mental, physical, and psychosocial health is fundamental to organizational success, and will therefore adopt and implement a comprehensive approach to healthy workplace as an integral part of their business strategy and operations.
The Comprehensive Workplace Health (CWH) Model focuses on three elements: organizational culture, health and lifestyle practices and occupational health and safety. Initiatives for each one of these elements can include: awareness raising, skill-building and supportive environments.
For further description of the CWH model see below.
For more information on comprehensive workplace health visit the following websites:
Occupational Health and Safety includes reducing work-related injury, illness and disability by addressing the physical environment and other aspects of the workplace environment, such as:
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Health and Lifestyle Practices include individual behaviours and organizational strategies such as:
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Organizational Culture includes psychosocial issues in the workplace environment. It focuses on
factors that affect the interaction between people, their work and the organization and may include:
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