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Awareness Raising
Efforts aimed at increasing knowledge and/or changing attitudes about the topic being addressed. It includes a mix over time of media (both broadcast or mass media such as TV, radio and newspaper, and narrowcast such as pamphlets and posters), community events such as contests, fairs, and displays, and interpersonal opportunities such as presentations, briefings and symposia.

Education/Skill Building
Consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.

Environmental Support
Creating social and/or physical environments that support healthy behaviours (e.g., bicycle racks at worksites, healthy food choices in restaurants/ vending machines).

Policy Development
The process of developing legislative and regulatory measures that protect the health of communities and make it easier for individuals to make healthy choices.

Best Practice Level

• Assessed to be plausible and practical, in a systematic valid and reliable procedure.
• The intervention has gone under a review panel with independent reviewers and systematic criteria.

Gold Level

• Well-regarded ‘gold’ interventions are exemplary programs identified by a credible source as interventions which have yielded positive outcome results in the workplace using sound evaluation practices.
• Assessed to be plausible and practical, by THCU core team, using their personal judgments.

Silver Level

• Well-regarded 'silver level' interventions show positive process evaluation results.
• Assessed to be plausible and practical, by THCU core team, using their personal judgments.

Canadian
Developed in Canada

Cost
Resources for this intervention have a cost

No Cost
Resources for this intervention are free

Electonic Access
Resources for this intervention are accessible as an electronic file (e.g., pdf, MS Word)

Paper Access
Resources for this intervention are available in hard copy (e.g., binder, video tape) from the intervention source

Online Access
Resources for this intervention are web-based (e.g. online checklist, guide)

Lifestyle Practice
One of three aspects of comprehensive workplace health promotion, which generally refers to efforts to change the employees' behaviour. Examples of issues to encourage employees to act upon may include tobacco use, alcohol and drug use, nutrition, immunization and physical activity.

Occupational Health + Safety
One of three aspects of comprehensive workplace health promotion, which generally refers to efforts to reduce the physical and chemical hazards in a work environment with the goal of reducing work-related injury, illness and disability. Many activities fall under the category of occupational health and safety, including ergonomics, injury prevention, hazard identification and control, emergency response problems, disability case management, and medical services.

Organizational Culture
One of three aspects of comprehensive workplace health promotion, which generally refers to efforts to change or improve the organizational working environment. Elements of the organizational environment include leadership style, management practices, the way in which work is organized, employee autonomy and control, and social support.