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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy Work: Feeling Great about Life! Healthy Workplace Month October is healthy workplace month, it is the ninth annual Canadaā€™s Healthy Workplace Month (CHWM). CHWM is a four week long celebration intended to introduce workplace health to organizations. It also supports organizations that are already promoting healthy workplaces. The theme for October 2009 is: Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy Work: Feeling Great about Life! Each week, organizations will be challenged to participate in activities based on the weekly themes. The weekly challenge themes are: - Week 1 - Feeling Great at Work - Week 2 - Feeling Great with Family and Friends - Week 3 - Feeling Great at Play - Week 4 - Feeling Great about Giving Back Organizations can register at www.healthyworkplacemonth.ca to participate in some or all of the challenges. Why a Healthy Workplace is Important Studies have shown that healthcare costs are increasing at twice the rate of inflation. In Canada, more than 50,000 strokes and 75,000 heart attacks occur every year. Approximately 8% of workers are taking medication to treat depression and other mental-health conditions. Mental illness costs the Canadian economy over $50 billion each year. What are companies doing about this? Many employees feel undervalued and stressed at home and at work. The National Quality Institute (NQI) states that happy, healthy employees are more likely to treat their customers well. Organizations which have such employees are also likely to experience high employee retention rates and a healthy workplace environment improves their health and well-being. About Canada's Healthy Workplace Month (CHWM), October 5 - November 1: The Month promotes fostering a workplace culture of trust and respect where people are happy and healthy at work. In a healthy workplace, people look forward to going to work. The goals for Canada's Healthy Workplace Month(R) are to: - Increase awareness of comprehensive workplace health in Canada - Build awareness of workplace health research and how its outcomes apply to business productivity - Generate awareness and use of the Healthy Workplace(R) tools and resources, available through www.healthyworkplacemonth.ca to all Canadian organizations - Increase the number of healthy workplaces in Canada Read more here Posted by: suhujitha on 2009-10-04 11:45:47 Subscribe to the feed Direct Link to this post Next post: Offering support is the best medicine for a stressed worker 2012-02-07 09:29:21 Other posts tagged healthy workplace month, employee retention, health promotion programs, mental health, stress: · [Offering support is the best medicine for a stressed worker] · [High levels of burnout among UK family doctors, especially in group practice] · [Sky light sky bright -- inside your office] · [PTSD and respiratory illness linked] · [U.S. Gross Domestic Happiness on the down-swing] · [Working moms multitask more and have worse time doing so than dads] · [Current training programs may not prepare firefighters to combat stress] · [Stress hormones may increase cardiovascular risks for shift workers - especially those under 40] · [Working 9/11 - the health effects 10 years later] · [Calling nurses to exercise as role models for their patients] · [Stress and burnout in the ICU: who is at risk and how to alleviate it] Don't forget: there is a search box on every page! 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