General Occupational Medicine Guidance

Five Tests and Treatments to Question: Occupational Medicine - Choosing Wisely Canada

Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question - ACOEM / ABIM

Seven Principles for Successful Return to Work - Institute for Work and Health

Job Demands & Accomodation Tool (JDAPT) - Institute for Work and Health 

Guidance and Position Statements - American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 

MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - Centre for Research Expertise in Musculoskeletal Disorders

Prevent Occupational Disease - Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

Infection Prevention and Control and Healthcare Guidance

Healthcare Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines - National Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control (NAC-IPC)

Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control (PIDAC-IPC)

Canadian Immunization Guide 

Canadian TB Standards, 8th Edition

Workplace Mental Health Guidance

Workplace Tools and Guidelines - Mental Health Commission of Canada

Guarding Mind at Work

Core@Work

In representing the interest of its members, the OEMAC Board has agreed to review a series of guidance documents on the topic of workplace mental health.  The goal of these guidance documents is to address common issues with mental health and addictions as experienced in workplaces.  These evidence-informed guidance documents come from an initiative, CoRE@Work, led by expert advisors who are OEMAC members, and is funded by the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE) through an investigator-initiated grant process.  Guidance documents posted on this page are endorsed by the OEMAC Board.  The Board trusts that our fellow members find this guidance useful in their respective practices.

• Recognizing Impairment at Work and Determining Fitness to Work: The Importance of Assessing Functional Capacity
• Clinical Guidance for Monitoring and Accountability in SafetySensitive Workers with a History of Substance-related Disorders
• Work as a Conduit to Recovery from Mental and Substance-Related Disorders
• The Recovery Friendly Workplace: A Multidimensional Solution to the Complex Problem of Workplace Stigma of Mental Disorders
• OEMAC Position Statement on the Implications of Cannabis Use for Safety-Sensitive and Decision-Critical Work
• Archived: OEMAC Position Statement on the Implications of Cannabis Use for Safety-Sensitive and Decision-Critical Work* This guidance is now archived and has been posted solely for historical purposes 
• Implementing Universal Health Promotion at Work: Areas of Consideration for Successful Workplace Interventions
• Best Practices for the Mental and Behavioral Disorder Independent Medical Examination 

Healthy Workplaces and Human Resources Guidance

A Guide for Managing the Return to Work - Canadian Human Rights Commission

Impaired at Work - A Guide to Accommodating Substance Dependence  - Canadian Human Rights Commission 

Healthy Workplaces - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

Guidance Statement on Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Occupational Health - American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

The Role of Health Professionals in Reviewing "Work from Home (WFH) Medical Accomodation Requests - Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada

Peer-Reviewed Occupational Medicine Publications

Occupational Medicine - Oxford University Press

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine - ACOEM / Ovid

Occupational and Environmental Medicine - BMJ Journals

American Journal of Industrial Medicine - Wiley 

Cochrane Work