October is Healthy Workplace Month - Mark your calendar for these initiatives!
October 01, 2025
October is Healthy Workplace Month in Canada: a time for organizations to promote healthy workplace practices, and you're invited to take part in the upcoming events, workshops, and training throughout the month, including:
- Move over October: Cross Canada Trek - Be active to help our team travel across Canada! Register by Friday, October 3
- Cybersecurity 101 Workshop (Tuesday, October 7): Learn best practices for protecting your data and securing your devices.
- Ontario Tech Puzzles Lending Program: Vote for your favourite images, to be turned into puzzles, by Friday, October 17.
- Mindful Mondays (October 20 to November 24): Select individual sessions or attend the entire weekly series.
- Mental Health First Aid (Tuesday, October 21): Join the more than 8 million people who have completed this training around the world! Register by Friday, October. 3.
- Health Safety and Wellness Fair (Thursday, October 30): Please stop by the various booths that will include experts from Sun Life, TELUS Health, Therapeutic Pets of Canada, assistive tech presented by the Accessibility Working Group, FREE seated massage, and more, view the pumpkins entered into this year's Pumpkin Carving Contest*, and enter your name in a draw for a chance to win one of several prizes.
* To participate, request your free pumpkin by Wednesday, October 15.
Visit our Wellness Events web page to see what's upcoming next month, including Crucial Conversations and Fuel your defenses: Put up a fight during flu season.
Contact information:
elise.arbic@ontariotechu.ca
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