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Workshop by Graham Lowe at the 15th Annual Health & Safety Conference Society of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. November 9, 2016

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Workshop description:
This day-long workshop will help participants apply the ideas, tools and leading examples in Graham Lowe’s book, Creating Healthy Organizations: How Vibrant Workplaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success.
The workshop provides a forum for learning and action planning, enabling you to build the foundations for sustainable success. Is your organization nurturing the employee capabilities it will need to thrive in 2025? How can you better support employees to achieve health, safety and performance goals? What are the most cost-effective ways to promote employee wellbeing? By addressing these questions, participants will achieve the following objectives by the end of the day:
– Understand the business case for a healthy organization.
– Learn about the building blocks of a healthy organization.
– Identify opportunities for strengthening these building blocks.
– Find ways to strengthen their workplace culture.
– Leverage existing initiatives to more fully engage employees.
– Define the critical behaviours for wellbeing and performance.
– Assess progress toward healthy organization goals.
– Identify the best metrics for tracking workplace improvements.
The workshop will develop participants’ capacity for effective change. Participants will be encouraged to identify actions they can take in their day-to-day work that will contribute to a more positive, productive and healthy work environment. Participants also will identify cost-effective ways to better leverage and integrate OH&S, HR, learning, wellness, quality improvement, and social / environmental responsibility initiatives.

Plenary talk by Graham Lowe at the 14th Annual Conference, Health & Safety Conference Society of Alberta. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta. October 30, 2015.

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TALK DESCRIPTION: Employers in Canada and many other countries face mounting pressures to find better ways to reduce employee health and safety risks – and costs. These challenges are best addressed by viewing healthy and safe employees as a strategic advantage. This positive approach to risk reduction is guided by a workplace vision that sets mental and physical wellbeing as corporate goals. Evidence-based best practices point to four actions that OHS professionals can take to move their organization in this direction. First, expand occupational health and safety management systems to promote psychological safety. Second, collaborate with wellness and HR professionals to develop integrated approaches to employee wellbeing. Third, make full use of OHS and HR metrics to demonstrate connections between health, safety and performance. And fourth, never lose sight of fact that your organization’s culture – the value it places on people – is the foundation for healthy, safe and high-performing workplace.

Graham Lowe will give a keynote talk at the The Organizational Health and Wellness Summit, OCT 22-23, 2015, KELOWNA, BC at the FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON HOTEL.
Overview:
The Organizational Health and Wellness Summit will explore new frontiers of workplace health promotion and prevention. The Summit provides a unique opportunity for business leaders, union representatives, OH&S, frontline practitioners, HR professionals and researchers, to learn about the latest strategies for improving mental and physical health in Canadian workplaces.
Canadian employers are facing relentless pressures to reduce absenteeism, presenteeism, disability costs and to improve productivity and corporate bottom line. The speakers and their interactive sessions will focus on how these challenges are interconnected and that the best way forward is to “connect the dots”. The speakers and participants will work together towards developing an integrated, comprehensive and cost-effective framework that can be implemented in their organizations to address top-of-mind concerns that include the following:
– Reducing absenteeism and presenteeism;
– Reducing risks to psychological health and safety in workplaces;
– Improving employee engagement in existing wellness initiatives;
– Enabling employer-union collaboration to achieve health and wellness goals;
– Implementing best practices for work disability prevention;
– Taking a collaborative approach to return-to-work;
– Aligning health, safety and wellness initiatives with corporate strategy;
– Making a leadership commitment to creating healthier and safer workplaces;
– Encouraging a culture of wellness by engaging employees and employers.
Set in a beautiful Okanagan Valley with its abundance of top-rated wineries, the Summit is also an ideal place for networking and learning from other participants. The Summit reception and dinner will be held at Summerhill Winery, featuring Chef Jonas Stadtlander and organic, award-winning wines.
The Summit is sponsored by Diversified Rehabilitation Group
For more info and to register: http://www.diversifiedrehab.ca/dmc/

Graham Lowe will be a keynote speaker at the Southwest Region Workplace Health Network Workshop, May 27, 2015 in Stratford, Ontario. He also will facilitate an interactive session that engages participants in identifying healthy organization actions they can take to move forward.

‘Joan Burton Memorial’Comprehensive Workplace Health Leadership Symposium
Tuesday April 21 2015
From 8:30 a.m. to Noon
Mississauga ON
Featuring Keynote Speaker – Graham Lowe
Your Future Wellness Dividend: How Healthy Organizations Maximize Employee Health and Safety for Sustainable Success
Managers and health and safety practitioners in Canada and many other countries face mounting pressures to find better ways to reduce employee health and safety risks and, at the same time, achieve higher levels of performance. These challenges are best addressed by viewing employee wellbeing as a strategic human capital advantage. This positive approach to workplace improvement is guided by a healthy organization vision. A healthy organization forges strong links between wellness, key human resource goals, and performance. Wellbeing is viewed as a leading indicator of employees’ capabilities and, equally critical, sustainable business success in the future. Evidence-based insights from current research support this approach and provide principles that can help employers reap a significant ‘wellness dividend’.
Can’t make it in person? Join us from 8:30-12noon via WEBINAR
For questions or additional information about the event please contact the OWHC at contact@owhc.ca or go to: www.owhc.ca

One-page summary of key action principles for making your organization healthier.

10 healthy organization principles

Graham Lowe will be speaking at the 2015 Vermont Worksite Wellness Conference, Burlington, VT.

Benefits Canada’s overview of its 2014 Healthy Outcomes Conference, published in the September 2014 issue. The special feature provides summaries of Graham Lowe’s talk, ‘Maximizing wellbeing and performance’ and the workshop he led on ‘Linking wellness and engagement.’
2014 Healthy Outcomes Conference

Keynote at the Occupational Health & Safety Industry Group annual conference, Auckland, New Zealand. September 11, 2014. For further information: www.ohsig.org.nz/programme/ohsig-conference-2014
Talk description: Employers in New Zealand and many other countries face mounting pressures to find better ways to reduce employee health and safety risks. These challenges are best addressed by viewing employee wellbeing as a strategic human capital advantage. This positive approach to risk reduction is guided by a healthy organization vision. A healthy organization forges strong links between health, safety and wellness initiatives and core human resource goals. Wellbeing is viewed as a leading indicator of employees’ capabilities – and future business performance. Evidence-based insights from current research support this approach and provide principles that can help employers reap a significant ‘wellness dividend’.