General Toolkit

Employers can play a pivotal role in reducing cancer incidence and premature death. Healthier employees and healthier bottom lines can be achieved by providing evidence-based prevention and early detection services and encouraging employee engagement. By providing access and encouraging participation, more lives – and more money - can be saved.

Employers of all sizes, from diverse industries, and across geographies that have earned CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation are making a difference.

Are You Ready?

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Gold Standard Application Guide:

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Application Download for Review

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An employer’s investment in a healthy workforce is critical to reduce the costs associated with cancer and other potentially preventable diseases and conditions.

Changing organizational culture: using the CEO cancer Gold Standard policy initiatives to promote health and wellness at a school of public health

Towne, Samuel D. Jr., PhD, MPH, CPH, Kelsey E. Anderson, Matthew Lee Smith, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Debra Kellstedt, Ninfa Pena Purcell and Marcia G. Ory

BMC Public Health

General Best Practices

Screenings at Work

Amgen

Screening

Screenings at Work

Amgen Inc. is committed to the health of their patients, while also focusing on the wellbeing of their staff and families. Amgen’s dedicated wellness team holds a variety of onsite health screenings throughout the year. Screenings include skin cancer, mammography, and bone density. These wellness offerings are complimentary or included in staff member’s medical plan. Further, the onsite nutrition team holds biometric screenings (e.g. BMI, blood pressure, waist circumference) throughout the year. For instance, during Heart Health Month, blood...

Articles of Interest

Addressing Obesity in the Workplace: The Role of Employers

Heinen, Luann and Helen Darling

National Business Group on Health

Tobacco Free Company a Big Hit

Min, Shirley

WNCN-TV

Research & Evidence

Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings

Katherine Baicker, David Cutler, and Zirui Song

Health Affairs

A Nicotine-Focused Framework for Public Health

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., and Mitchell Zeller, J.D

New England Journal of Medicine

Brochures

Taking Part in Cancer Treatment Research Studies

If you have cancer, you may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are a treatment option for many people with cancer. This book explains cancer treatment clinical trials and gives you some things to think about when deciding whether to take part. This booklet is for people with cancer, their family, and friends.

From Evidence to Practice: Workplace Wellness that Works

Employers know that keeping employees healthy is good for both the employees themselves and for the productivity and profitability of the business. However, most employers do not know precisely how to create a healthy workplace or healthy workforce. This workplace health promotion guide for employers fills that need: using the latest scientific evidence combined with expert opinion from business leaders, this guide offers easy to use, real world recommendations on the design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs. Employers can use this guide to implement best and promising practices in their workplaces, thereby maximizing the impact of their program and the benefits to employees and business alike.

Prepared by: Institute for Health and Productivity Studies Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health In collaboration with Transamerica Center for Health Studies®

Manager's Kit

After you’ve told your manager about your diagnosis, it will help to have a framework for discussions about your job. Understand that your manager will probably be worried for you — and for the company. The best antidote is information, which is why we created this kit. It contains need-to-know laws relating to cancer in the workplace; successful workplace strategies; tips for dealing with your HR department; and more. We recommend detaching this page and sharing the rest of the kit with your manager. Additional resources for both you and your employer can be found at cancerandcareers.org.

External Resources

Tobacco-Free Workplace

U.S. E-Cigarette Regulations - 50 State Review (2017)

Public Health Law Center

This is a snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulation, prepared by the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (a program of the Public Health Law Center) and the Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center at Northeastern University.

Physical Activity

ACS Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity

American Cancer Society

While it is not clear exactly how excess body fat, consuming too many calories, and lack of physical activity raise cancer risk, there is no question that they are linked to an increased risk of many types of cancer and that they are a serious and growing health problem.

Tobacco Cessation

Tobacco-Free Living

U.S. Surgeon General

Tobacco free living means avoiding use of all types of tobacco products—such as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes and hookahs—and also living free from secondhand smoke exposure.

Vaccines

What is HPV?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

HPV is short for human papillomavirus.

Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight