Hi Estella, In addition to the expertise from others, I know of two great
initiatives in Canada for workplace health - have a look at these two
sites... it appears your organization may need to find some corporate and
government partners to help move this forward (if you haven't don that
already)

http://www.nqi.ca The National Quality Institute has a program called as
described below:
The Canada Awards for Excellence are presented annually to private, public
and not-for-profit sector organizations that have displayed outstanding
performance in the areas of Quality and 

Canadian Healthy Workplace Week  http://www.healthyworkplaceweek.ca

The Canadian Healthy Workplace Council
The Canadian Healthy Workplace Council (The Council) consists of a number of
leading Canadian organizations and practitioners, whose members are
dedicated to fulfilling the Council's mission: 
"To promote a comprehensive and integrated approach to workplace health in
order to improve and sustain the health of Canadian organizations, their
work environments and their employees."

Hope this helps!  
_____________________________________
Robin D. Reece
Reece Project Management Consulting
Office:  (416) 628-3695
Fax: (416) 848-0634
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From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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Sent: August 27, 2006 8:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [CLICK4HP] Workplace Health Promotion - Australia

Thanks for ytour response Caespo.

In Australia we do not have any incentive for companies to take on corporate
hea;th initiavies fpr their workforce population.

There are no government subsidies, legal incentives herevetc.

The ROI business case for workplace health promotion to some extent has not
been validated due to variances in the quality of interventions onsite and
lack of gold standard consistency with relating health impacts to
productivity and injury prevention outcomes. 
Moreover the corporate sector is new to strategic population based
approaches to health promotion for their workforce in Aus - they are still
at the stage of viewing onsite exercise classes and massages as a 'nice to
have' for their staff to maintain 'employer of choice'status.

What has been your experience with government and other policy incentives
for workplace health promotion if any?

Thanks in advnace 
Estela

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Estela Thank you. We work in health promotion from an institutional and
policy point of view. We do not provide health services as such. How can we
help you?
Cordially yours,
Caespo.
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> Hi There,
>
> I am just writing to introduce myself and I look forward to hearing .
>
> Our organisation provides onsite health servvices, health risk appraisals
and telephonic health coaching to corporates in Australia nationwide.
> We have research partnerships with the University of Michigan (US) and
University of Wollongong (Aus).
> We have recently set up the Centre for Health and Productivity through the
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> I look forward to hearing from others working in this area.
>
> Kind regards
> Estela Gimenez
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