Active Workplace Toolkit
The Active Workplace toolkit is a program to help reduce sitting time at work and to provide training to help managers and supervisors better support workplace safety, health, and well-being for their employees. By reducing sedentary time and prolonged sitting at work, we can help improve worker health, safety, and well-being, reduce musculoskeletal pain, and reduce lost work time due to injury or illness.
By reducing prolonged sitting at work, we can help improve worker health, safety, and well-being, reduce musculoskeletal pain, and reduce lost work time due to injury or illness. The Active Workplace training materials have been developed to help reduce sedentary time at work and to provide training to help managers and supervisors better support workplace Total Worker Health® for their employees. It is recommended that learners access all the materials shared here.
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Active Workplace briefing slide deck
Use the Active Workplace Briefing Slides to share information about the benefits of the program, including your organization can decrease sitting time at work, increase health, and well-being, and employee engagement through Total Worker Health with your workplace, leadership, management, and employees
Active Workplace facilitator tools
The Active Workplace User Guide is available to help introduce Active Workplace to your organization. This guide provides step-by-step instruction on how to implement the training.
Active Workplace discussion guides
These tools are meant to be used to guide conversations in the workplace about sedentary behavior, ergonomics and injury, stress management, physical activity, sleep hygiene, and nutrition. Handouts and conversation prompts are included in these materials.
Active Workplace team completion activity
This activity is a competition where teams compete to engage in the most minutes of physical activity at work in one month. Competitions encourage employees to engage in the program and be more active in the workplace.
This activity can be used as a part of the Active Workplace toolkit or as a stand-alone tool depending on how much of the program you are implementing. If you are implementing this competition activity as part of the Active Workplace toolkit, it is recommended to have two competition periods that are each designed to last one month and to implement the two competitions during the monthly topics of sedentary behavior and physical activity. The activity is available to download using the button below. We have created this data tracker tool to score team competitions.