2.2.1. Address health determinants to promote and improve physical and mental health, creating supportive environments for healthy lifestyles and preventing disease; take action on key factors such as nutrition and physical activity and sexual health, and on addiction-related determinants such as tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals used improperly, focusing on key settings such as education and the workplace, and across the life cycle.

In its resolution of 20 September 2001 on harassment at the workplace, Parliament called for mental, psychosocial and social factors in the work environment to be taken into account with a view to strengthening the quality dimension in employment.

In its resolution of 20 September 2001 on harassment at the workplace, Parliament called for mental, psychosocial and social factors in the work environment to be taken into account with a view to strengthening the quality dimension in employment.

8. Urges the Commission in the communications on a Community strategy on health and safety at work and on strengthening the quality dimension in employment and social policy and in the Green Paper on corporate social responsibility also to take into account mental, psycho-social or social factors in the work environment, including the organisation of work, thus emphasising long-term, systematic and preventive efforts concerning health and safety with the aim, inter alia, of counteracting bullying at work, and to consider also the need for legislative initiatives to this end;

We need to help those organizations develop psychologically healthy workplaces where all individuals can accomplish meaningful and productive work; and when services or programs are needed for people who are experiencing mental health difficulties or addictions, they should be provided by both private and public health sectors as appropriate in a manner that mitigates disability and maintains or improves functioning, addresses the symptoms and be based on good science.

The significant amendments to Part II of the Canada Labour Code communicate this government's belief that initiatives which promote a healthier and safer working environment, which foster sound labour management relations and which encourage employee involvement in decision-making, constitute not only good social policy, but also good economic policy.