There are several frameworks that are used to create healthy, safe, and thriving workplaces.
The South Australian Collaborative Partnership for Workplace Health and Wellbeing has endorsed a framework that integrates protection and promotion. Work in these areas has traditionally been separated into occupational health and safety or ad hoc workplace health promotion programs to encourage healthy lifestyles.1
The South Australian framework for healthy, safe, and thriving workplaces is based on the World Health Organization’s Healthy Workplace Model, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health Framework, and evidence-based research from around the world.2
The South Australian healthy, safe and thriving workplaces framework
The healthy, safe and thriving workplaces framework has three main elements:
Element 1: The healthy workplace model
Element 2: Critical success factors
Element 3: The healthy workplace journey
1 G Sorensen, DL McLellan et al. Integrating worksite health protection and health promotion: A conceptual model for intervention and research. Prev Med 2016 91:188-196.
2 World Health Organization (WHO), Healthy workplaces: a model for action, WHO, 2010;R Chari, CC Chang, SL Sauter, EL Petrun Sayers et al., Expanding the paradigm of occupational safety and health: a new framework for worker well-being, J Occup Environ Med, 2018, 60(7):589-593;G Sorensen, DL McLellan, EL Sabbath, JT Dennerlein et al., Integrating worksite health protection and health promotion: A conceptual model for intervention and research, Prev Med, 2016, 91:188-196; Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Workplace Health Model, CDC, n.d., accessed 2022; Government of Canada – Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Healthy Workplaces, n.d., accessed 2022. ccohs.ca/healthyworkplaces; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Healthy workplaces: improving employee mental and physical health and wellbeing quality standard, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2017; International Labour Organization (ILO), Workplace well-being and improving health in the workplace: ILO’s framework for action, ILO [website], n.d.