Visions: Workplaces

Workplaces 2009
(32 Pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Editor’s Message (Sarah Hamid-Balma)
  • The Final Frontier in Workplace Health [guest editorial] (Margaret Tebbutt)
  • The Economic Impacts: Workplace mental illness and substance abuse (Claudia Steinke and Ali Dastmalchian)
  • Substance Use: The monster we work with (MaryAnn Arcand)
  • Human Rights and Employer Responsibility to Accomodate Disability in the Workplace (Jennifer Lynch)
  • Wired in the Workplace  (Deena Waisberg) [Online Only]
  • A Little Help From My Friends (Jude Morrison)
  • Transitioning from Disability Pension to Full-time work: Scary but liberating (Tara Timmers)
  • Insurance Reassurance: Disability a must for recovery (Ross Taylor)
  • A Triple Threat: Workplace isolation, West Coast grey and the "black dog" (Gwen Marsh)
  • The Bottom Line: There is no health without mental health (Arto Tienaho)
  • The Mostly Incompetent Employee (Frank G. Sterle, Jr.)
  • Return to Work: Ready or not? (Karen Six) [Online Only]
  • Taking Care of That Little Girl (Maureen Lavallee)[Online only]
  • Employee Assistance Program (Raymond W. Lam)
  • Guarding Minds @ Work: A new guide to psychological safety and health (Joti Samra and Merv Gilbert)
  • Drug Testing in the Canadian Workplace (Scott Macdonald)
  • Stress in the Workplace (June Earle) [Online Only]
  • Peer Support for Medical Professionals (Dr. Paul A. Farnan) [Online Only]
  • Good News About Workplace Mental Health (Mary Ann Baynton) [Online Only]
  • Healthy Workplaces-Healthy People: Fraser Health's recent focus on mental health (Elayne Preston and Rosemary Nemanishen)
  • Mental Health Awareness for Managers: An integrated approach (Jan Mitchell)
  • Quittin' Time: A smoking cessation program for the BC Public Service (Maureen Foxgord)
  • Employers Who Are Walking the Walk (Donna Panitow)
  • Mental Health Works (Mary Ann Baynton and Margaret Tebbutt)

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