BMC 183 - Integrated Workplace Health Management
Course Description
Learn how organizations can create a work environment that supports employee health, safety and engagement while reducing disability and associated risk. Understand how you can develop strategies to address employees at all points in the health continuum, from optimal health and performance to being disabled and off work. Topics include: leadership and the work environment, stress management, employee assistance programs, health promotion, workers compensation and disability management/return-to-work processes.
Course Details
By completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Develop a basic business case for integrated workplace health and align this with organizational strategy
- Explain the relationships between workplace health, safety and wellness, employee engagement and productivity
- Describe current demographic shifts in the workforce and implications for workplace health, safety and wellness initiatives
- Identify and describe related industry/workplace best practices
- Assist in the design, implementation and measurement of workplace health, safety and wellness programs
Prerequisites
- CE HSE001 - CE HSE Proficiency (WAIVED)
- BMC 104 - Health and Safety Management Systems: The Basics (Pass)
Applies Towards the Following Program(s)
- Occupational Health and Safety Advanced Certificate : Core Courses