Be Well at Work provides tools and resources to help managers and supervisors create a healthy work environment, prevent injury and illness, and address workplace health and safety issues.
Roles and Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors
Promoting a Safe Work Environment
- What is Your Role as a manager or supervisor to create and maintain a healthy ergonomic work environment?
Promoting a Healthy Work Environment
- Wellness Program provides tools and resources to help managers and supervisors with their role in creating a healthy work environment.
- Supporting Wellness at Work (pdf) - This one-page checklist for managers and supervisors can help you with the role of creating a healthy work environment that prevents injury and illness and promotes the health and well-being of the staff you supervise.
- Wellness Ambassadors are staff volunteers who help create a healthy workplace by assisting managers and supervisors to promote Be Well at Work -- Wellness Program activities and resources within the department.
Promoting an Inclusive Work Environment
Consultations and Training
Consultations
- Employee Assistance provides free and confidential consultations for faculty and staff management, and campus administration related to behavioral health problems that impact workplace functioning.
- How Ergonomics Can Help Your Department
- Disability Management provides group consultation aimed to reinforce key concepts acquired in supervisor and manager training and focuses upon practical application in a departmental or unit group setting. Interactive dialog specific to the needs of the audience serves to support the management personnel address the disability and accommodation requirements of the staff/faculty. Group consultation is available by appointment only.
Training
- Current Departmental Training Topics
Be Well at Work -- Faculty/Staff Health Programs offer many types of training that meet the needs and schedules of campus departments, worksites, and groups. -
Disability Management: Understanding the Process is a 3-hour training for managers and supervisors available through the KEYS Risk Management Track. Demystifying disability management and recognizing the benefits of active engagement with employees with disabilities both non-occupational and worker’s compensation. Attention to areas such as timely reporting, ADA/FEHA, and Interactive Process serves as a foundation for curriculum supporting a holistic approach to disability and risk mitigation within departments and access to accommodation and resources to support both department supervisory staff and its faculty/employees.
Workplace Injuries: Prevention and Reporting
Injury Prevention
- Healthy Office Program offers managers and supervisors:
- Fact sheets to share with staff on wellness, stress management, computer ergonomics, back health, and office safety.
- Referrals to related campus resources.
- Ergonomics: Departments Planning to Move checklist
Reporting an Employee Injury
Policies and Guidelines
Disability Management
- Reasonable Accommodation for employees with disabilities
Ergonomics
- Cal OSHA Ergonomics Standard
- Campus Health & Safety Guidelines for Computer Users
- CUE Contract Language on Computer Ergonomics
Wellness
Work/Life
- Breastfeeding Support Program
- Leave Policies: Resources and Policies for Pregnant Employees