Training, Motivation, and Workplace Wellness: Recommendations for Development and Integration of a Wellness Program

TRANING, MOTIVATION AND
WORKPLACE WELLNESS
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF AN WELLNESS PROGRAM
GROUP MEMBERS:

LEARNING OUTCOMES TO BE COVERED
 Explanation of the different legislative acts that apply to the occupational health
and safety of the workforce.
 Recommendations of different methods of assessing the hazards within the
workplace.
 Creation of a plan to engage the workforce in health and safety issues within the
workplace.
 Explanation of the roles that leadership teams and human resources plays in
creating a safe work environment.

LEGISLATIVE ACTS IN OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
 In Canada there are mainly 14 Jurisdictions- 1 Federal, 10 provincial and 3
territorial. Each have their own legislations for Occupational Health and Safety
(McLaughlin, Hennebry & Haines, 2014).
 The legislations mainly outlines the rights and responsibilities of the employer,
the supervisor and the workers (Laberge, MacEachen & Calvet, 2014).
 The main purpose of the Legislative act is to protect the workers from health
and safety hazards of their job. It outlines duties of all workplace parties, and
the rights of the workers. Various procedures of dealing with workplace
hazards are established along with the rules of law enforcement when
voluntary achievement of compliance has not been undertaken (Fan et al.,
2014).
 For most the workplace hazards the workers need to consult the provincial or
territorial agencies. Exceptions are there in case of employees of the Federal
Government, Crown agencies and corporations. Here Federal legislation
applies (Friend & Kohn, 2018).

LEGISLATIVE ACTS IN OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
 There is a specific ‘Right to Know’ legislation where for hazardous products.
The WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) provides a
series of complimentary Federal, territorial and provincial laws in the form of
a comprehensive plan having information about various hazardous products
in workplaces (Landsbergis, Grzywacz & Lamontagne, 2014).
 The Federal Health and Safety Legislation is also called the Canada Labor
Code Part II and it applies to the employees of the following business sectors-
banks, airports and airlines, highways transports, pipelines, canals, petroleum
exploration fields, grain elevators, feed mills, flour mills, feed warehouses,
cleaning plants, ferries, ports, tunnels, bridges, First Nation activities, radio
and TV broadcastings, cable systems, railways, shipping services, telephone
and telegram services and Uranium mining processing units (Mahmoudi et al.,
2014).
 The Provincial Ministry or Department of Labor are responsible for workplace
health and safety for regional workers (Nielsen, 2014).
 statistics show that 6% of Canadian workforce is under Federal Government
Legislations while the rest 94% comes under provincial legislation (Yassi et
al., 2013).