The Health and Work Productivity website (HWP) provides evidence-based resources to support implementation of best practices in disability prevention, disability management and work productivity.
The HWP brings together a broad-base of stakeholders each who play a role in creating and sustaining safe, psychologically healthy and productive workplaces.
Who are HWP members?
- Academic and community-based researchers
- Business and health science educators
- Business/ labour leaders
- Disability managers
- Health care professionals
- Human resource professionals
- Insurers
- Managers/ supervisors
- Occupational health and safety
- Policy-makers
- Service providers
- Wellness coordinators
The HWP objectives are:
- Provide information that is reliable, credible, and trustworthy
- Provide tools and resources that are practical and actionable to support education and implementation of best practices
- Build communities of practice within and across stakeholders
- Highlight emerging issues within the disability management and work productivity fields
- Identify promising grassroots interventions from organizations and employers
- Provide a place for academic and research collaboration
- Support and build cross-discipline research capacity
History
The Disability Prevention and Management Collaborative is an initiative of the Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability. Over 120 stakeholders have participated in surveys, focus groups, and planning summits to identify high priority issues and challenges and the creation of a roadmap to improve disability prevention and management.
Founding Steering Committee
- Marc White – Executive Director of Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability
- Doug Kube – Director of Occupational Health and Safety at Air Canada
- Jane Petruniak – Senior Consultant with Towers Perrin’s Health & Welfare Practice
- T. Larry Myette – Director of Strategic Workplace Health and Occupational Medicine at Healthcare Benefit Trust
- Lori King – Return to Work Clinical Coordinator at University of British Columbia, Department of Health, Safety and Environment
- Ruth Johnston – Senior Associate with Mercer Human Resource Consulting
- Howard Hamer – Medical Director for the Functional Restoration Program at Toronto Western Hospital
- Sheila Kerr – Former Director of Professional and Consumer Education at Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability
DPMC Conferences and Workshops
Business Health - Employee Health: Creation Retention and Renewal
July 7-9, 2006 | University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC Canada
Best Practices Leadership Summit on Disability Prevention
April 30, 2007 | Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, BC Canada
Download the report: Best Practices Leadership Summit on Disability Prevention Report
60 Summits: BC Summit on Preventing Needless Work Disability
November 25, 2008 | Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue | Vancouver, BC Canada
Other Related activities:
Labour Management Partnerships Program (LMPP) Project
Facilitating the Use of Evidence-Informed Best Practices in Disability Prevention and Management
The Labour Management Partnerships Program (LMPP) supports joint labour-management initiatives and projects that are designed and implemented, at sectoral or national levels, to foster and improve labour-management relationships. The Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability (CIRPD) working in collaboration with 60 organization partners applied and received LMPP funding support to facilitate the use of evidence-informed best practices across stakeholders to foster safe, healthy and productive workplaces
To this end, CIRPD and stakeholders organized a number of activities to create a coordinated multi-stakeholder strategic approach to reducing the gap between high quality research and current policies and practices across the many stakeholders who impact business health and employee health.
As a result of LMPP project support, CIRPD was able to leverage significant financial and
in-kind investment from various sectors and government agencies to:
- Host a conference, Business Health - Employee Health: Creation Retention and Renewal – Connecting Research to Training and Practice
- Design a state-of-the-art Web-Portal and E-Bulletin to facilitate access to credible knowledge, tools and resources to support best practices in creating safe, healthy and productive workplaces.
- Strengthen and expand stakeholder interest in the project using a participatory process to identify:
- Create an infrastructure (hardware and software) to support intranet and extranet development
- Host the first Best Practices Leadership Summit on Disability Prevention
- Partner with the Canadian Institutes for Health Research to launch new graduate training awards in disability prevention with the goal to better understand factors contributing to the creation of safe, healthy, productive workplaces (including successful labour-management partnerships).