The Health Communication Unit, at the Centre for Health Promotion at the 
University of Toronto,  is in the fifth year of a workplace health promotion project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.  In this year we are focused on reviewing a wide variety of tools used 
in workplaces to assess their employees or organization.  These could take 
the form of needs assessments, interest surveys, health risk appraisals, or 
organizational audits. We have convened a panel of experts and adapted a 
"best practices" review protocol to assess these tools.  Those selected will 
be summarized in a catalogue of "recommended practices" to be posted to the 
THCU Web site upon completion (anticipated Spring, 2005).

So why this message to CLICK?  We are trying to access as many of these tools as 
possible in the next few weeks.  We have completed a literature search and 
have accessed many more through "Googling".  However, we are sure there are 
many others out there being used by public health professionals, 
occupational health nurses, human resource staff in workplaces, NGO's and 
private consultants.  Your assistance would be most appreciated in:

* forwarding this email to your colleagues in workplace health so they might 
pass tools on to us
* forwarding names of people you would recommend we connect with to collect 
more tools
* forwarding actual workplace situational assessment tools like those 
described above.  In this case, a contact name and email / phone would be 
invaluable in us getting additional details on each tool.

Our project timelines allow for us to be in this broad collection mode until 
the end of February.

For those tools that are "proprietary", we have a Non-Disclosure Agreement 
and safeguards in place to protect access to these in particular (the 
resulting catalogue would link people to the organization to access the 
actual tool).

Thanks in advance for anything you are able to send.  

Nancy Dubois
Health Promotion & Planning Consultant
DU B FIT Consulting / THCU
RR2, Site 2, Box 43, 12 Finlay St.
Scotland, ON     N0E 1R0
519.446.3636 (phone)
519.446.3329 (fax)
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