Health and safety and health and wellness programs share a common goal: ensuring that workers have safe and healthy work environments that support healthy lifestyle behaviours.   However, too often, health and safety and health and wellness programs compete for resources, to the detriment of the workers and the organization. 

Many employers have successfully developed comprehensive health and wellness programs, based on a collaborative model of health and safety, occupational and non-occupational claims management, employee assistance and wellness. Focusing on becoming a healthy organization compels employers to ensure that barriers to health and safety are addressed at the source (by creating a culture of health and wellness), as well as provides education and training on achieving a healthy work-life balance.   

ESAO has developed a workshop that will introduce participants to:

• Research supporting the business case for creating healthy organizations
• Models for integrating health and safety and health and wellness
• Examples from organizations which have successfully created a comprehensive health and wellness program
• Practical suggestions for expanding a health and safety program to reflect health and wellness principles and programming
• Low cost (and no cost!) ideas for getting started. 

 All participants receive a copy of the Healthy Organizations Resource Book and a one year supply of Coaching Chips, as well as access to electronic coaching modules for one year in the Online Coaching Clinic®.  Those individuals who attended the launch at the 2007 ESAO conference will begin receiving their electronic Coaching Chips in September 2007.  Do view a sample, click on the following link  www.coachingclinic.com/esao and select the Competency Menu on the left hand side and click on the active link.

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