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Operating a Business
# Workplace Policies & Programs
* Operating a Business
* Workplace Policies & Programs
* Healthy Eating in the Workplace
* Mental Well-being in the Workplace
* Physical Activity in the Workplace
* Smoke & Vape-Free Workplace
Related Links
* Healthy Workplaces
* Canadian Healthy Workplace Criteria
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Promoting and supporting healthy behaviours in the workplace contributes to a positive organizational culture and shows leadership's commitment to a healthy workplace.
### Healthy Eating in the Workplace
Strategy and policy options your workplaces can implement to encourage healthy eating.
### Physical Activity in the Workplace
Creating workplace policies and supportive environments for employees to help make healthy choices easier.
### Mental Well-being in the Workplace
Employers can reduce stressful working conditions through strategic direction, policies and supportive environments
### Smoke & Vape-Free Workplace
Employers should develop a comprehensive program to decrease employee smoking rates.
Workplace Policies & Programs
## Healthy Workplaces
According to the Conference Board of Canada employers should create a healthy workplace to:
* control the financial costs associated with an unhealthy workplace and to gain the benefits of a healthy workplace
* build the organization's profile as a good and socially responsible employer
* demonstrate legal due diligence toward their employees
### Create a Healthy Workplace
Workplaces can mobilize or influence healthy workplace initiatives in the following four key areas, according to the World Health Organization:
1. **Physical work environment** -Provide a safe physical work environment by addressing health and safety concerns.
2. **Psychosocial work environment** - Promote and encourage attitudes, values, beliefs and daily practices in the workplace that have a positive impact on the mental and physical well-being of employees.
3. **Personal health resources** - Provide health services, information, resources, opportunities, flexibility and other supportive environment measures to support or motivate employees' efforts to improve or maintain healthy lifestyles and to support their physical and mental health.
4. **Workplace involvement in the community** - Consider assistance, resources or expertise that a workplace may offer to support the social and physical well-being of the community surrounding the workplace.
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April 14, 2026