Archives October 2007

October 2007

Health/wellness

A new magazine for a new era in workplace health. Welcome to the first issue of Working Well, a magazine dedicated to improving workplace health…

  Office culture can influence drinking Workplace attitudes toward alcohol consumption can influence employees’ drinking habits, according to a recent study published in the journal…

To fully achieve healthy workplaces, healthcare stakeholders must unite and support a common agenda. A convergence of pressures has raised the stakes for creating workplaces…

Karen Seward and her team at Shepell•fgi are helping employers to tackle wellness ‘like a business problem’. Mounting drug and healthcare costs, rising long-term disability…

Thanks to an asthma self-management program, employees at Moosehead Breweries are breathing a little easier. A sudden and significant increase in drug claims might be…

Inspiring employees at Campbell Canada to get serious about their health is duck soup for Fanny Karolev. Late last year, the cafeteria staff at Campbell…

Employers can help sick and injured employees navigate the healthcare system to make their journey — and recovery — as short and stress-free as possible…

Getting the wellness message out to McMaster University employees is what Wanda McKenna does best. Even a small amount of funding for employee health promotion…

One employer’s approach to getting employees to take better care of their heart health As more employers realize the link between employee health and business…

  Wellness not a ‘corporate value’ While 88% of Ontario employers offer at least one employee health promotion program, such as smoking cessation, only 6%…

British Columbians are outliving their Cascadian neighbours by an average of two years. The province’s health promotion minister, Gordon Hogg, explains why. British columbia is…