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Work Wellness Institute Membership!

Advance your Career & Improve your Workplace

Membership Includes:
  • 350+ Lectures on Demand
  • 18 self-paced e-Courses
  • Accreditation opportunities
  • Certifications for Members Only;
    • Leadership Certification
    • Inclusivity Recruitment & Retention Certification
    • Work Wellness Ambassador Certification

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Course Description

This program is pre-approved by VRA Canada for a 1 hour training session

Work Wellness Institute

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Main Plenary Session

    • Scotland's healthy working lives-improving the health of the working age population (E. Macdonald)

    • Scotland's healthy working lives (E. Macdonald) PDF

    • Economic benefit for early intervention (R. Gatchel)

    • Economic benefit for early intervention (R. Gatchel) PDF

    • Early intervention for musculoskeletal problems-A toolkit for health professionals (A. Woolf)

    • Early intervention for musculoskeletal problems (A. Woolf) PDF

    • Emotional intelligence: How can we improve workplace culture and resilience? (D. Cohen)

    • Emotional intelligence (D. Cohen) PDF

    • Main Plenary Session Survey
  • 2

    Concurrent Session 1A: Identifying risk factors and implementation

    • Workplace mental health assessment (WMHRA) - Sun Life Case Study (M. Pelletier, A. Day, N. Miller)

    • Workplace mental health assessment (M. Pelletier, A. Day, N. Miller) PDF

    • A tool to allow workplaces to perform psycho-social risk assessments (J. Oudyk)

    • A tool to allow workplaces to perform psycho-social risk assessments (J. Oudyk) PDF

    • Creating a healthy workplace - Canadian center for occupational health and safety's journey (E. Nicolson)

    • Creating a healthy workplace (E. Nicolson) PDF

    • Workplace risks and protective factors findings from systematic reviews (M. White)

    • Workplace risks and protective factors findings from systematic reviews (M. White) PDF

    • Concurrent Session 1A Survey
  • 3

    Concurrent Session 2A: Managing uncertainty: living and working with an episodic disability in Canada

    • Mini-Symposium: Managing uncertainty: living and working with an episodic disability in Canada (W. Porch, R. Gewurtz, E. Smith, S. Lindsay)

    • Mini-Symposium: Managing uncertainty (W. Porch, R. Gewurtz, E. Smith, S. Lindsay) PDF

    • Concurrent Session 2A Survey
  • 4

    Concurrent Session 3A: Safety and organization culture

    • Essential ingredients for improving OHS performance and increasing productivity (F. Lamm)

    • Essential ingredients for improving OHS performance (F. Lamm) PDF

    • Safety culture: The missing links (N. McDonnel, F. Lamm)

    • Safety culture: The missing links (N. McDonnel, F. Lamm) PDF

    • Creating culturally safe and inclusive employment environments for indigenous peoples and perspectives in northern BC's health care sector (C. Alderfer-Mumma)

    • Creating culturally safe and inclusive employment environments (C. Alderfer-Mumma) PDF

    • Concurrent Session 3A Survey
  • 5

    Concurrent Session 1B: The empower partnership: Creating a framework to foster healthy and productive workplaces workshop

    • Mini-Symposium The Empower Partnership (A. Day, D. Smibert, M. Pelletier)

    • The EMPOWER Partnership (A. Day)

    • ACTion (Awareness and commitment training in organizational networks) (A. Day)

    • Leading Healthy Workplaces (A. Day)

    • Workers at risk: Conducting an environmental scan to understand the issues facing workers, and the potential organizational supports (D. Smibert)

    • Environmental scan of organizational data: A partnership perspective (M. Pelletier, A. Day)

    • Concurrent Session 1B Survey
  • 6

    Final Survey

    • Final Survey