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Work-Life Conflict in Canada in the New Millennium

Box 2

Findings from the Balancing Work, Family and Lifestyle National Study

• Report One: The 2001 National Work-Life Conflict Study: puts the series into context by describing the sample of employees who participated in the research and examining the various risk factors associated with work-life conflict.
  Website: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/work-travail/index.html
• Report Two: Work-life Conflict in Canada in the New Millennium: A Status Report: makes the business case for change by looking at how high levels role overload, work to family interference, family to work interference, caregiver strain and spillover from work to family affect employers, employees and their families.
  Website: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/work-travail/report2/index.html
• Report Three: Exploring the Link between Work-Life Conflict and the Use of Canada's Health Care System: focuses on how work-life conflict affects Canada's health care system (i.e. quantifies the system demands associated with high work-life conflict and attempts to put some kind of dollar value on how much it costs Canada to treat the health consequences of such conflict).
  Website: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/work-travail/report3/index.html
• Report Four: Who Is at Risk? Predictors of High Work-Life Conflict: identifies key risk factors for role overload, work interferes with family, family interferes with work and caregiver strain.
  Website: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/work-travail/report4/index.html
• Report Five: Reducing Work-Life Conflict: What Works? What Doesn't?: examines what employers, employees and their families can do to reduce work-life conflict.
  Website: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/occup-travail/balancing-equilibre/index_e.html

Environmental and Workplace Health Features

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)

Drinking Water

Indoor Air Quality

Chemical Substances

National Dosimetry Service