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Comprehensive Workplace Health (CWH) supports, and encourages employees to increase their health and well-being by way of the employer offering creditable health related programs at the workplace. In a comprehensive approach there needs to be an organizational health policy that express’ both corporate values and support for the health of the employee. A comprehensive approach takes into account a variety of lifestyle concerns. 
There are three elements that make up CWH; Leadership and Culture, Health and Wellbeing, and Physical Environment. Based on the Venn diagram to the left, a successful CWH program would be seen in the middle where all three factors meet.
A workplace can only be considered healthy if three key elements are addressed, in an integrated manner. These three elements are:
- The physical work environment must be safe and healthy
- The psychosocial work environment must be safe and healthy. This includes workplace stressors that threaten the mental and physical health of employees, such as harassment, bullying, work overload or lack of control over work
- Employers should support healthy lifestyles among employees
www.thrivingworkplaces.ns.ca provides information, tools and resources for Nova Scotia employees, employers and practitioners, to enable them to actively participate in making their workplaces healthy, safe and productive. Policies must provide a consistence direction organization wide. See the Nova Scotia Comprehensive Workplace Health Strategy.pdf