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Nominations are being accepted for Dalhousie’s 2012 Healthy Workplace Award. The Award recognizes departments, units, or areas that are demonstrating opportunities of health and wellness for their employees.

There are many ways to support employee health, engagement, and well-being, and we want to hear about how your workplace is doing just that. Show us how one or more of the six dimensions of wellness (see below) are represented in your work group or program and describe the positive impacts that have occurred.

Any Dalhousie-based work group or program is eligible, including university departments and programs located in other locations or organizations.

Six Dimensions of Wellness

· Physical – nutrition, fitness

· Emotional – deal with emotions; share feelings in a healthy and meaningful way

· Intellectual – ability to constantly, and positively, challenge our minds

· Interpersonal/Social – develop and maintain satisfying and supportive relationships

· Spiritual – a feeling of belonging to something greater than oneself; a sense of purpose

· Environmental – surroundings conducive to being our best

Contact HealthyDal@Dal.ca for a nomination form. DEADLINE for nominations is September 30, 2012. The winner will be recognized at an event in October, as part of Healthy Workplace Month.

For more information about the Healthy Workplace Award, email HealthyDal@dal.ca or contact Janice MacInnis, Coordinator, Organizational Health, at (902) 494-4568.