The System and Healthy Work Environments Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) are designed to support health-care organizations in creating and sustaining positive work environments. This work is led by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), with funding from the Government of Ontario. BPGs are available free of charge.

For the project a healthy work environment was defined as "a practice setting that maximizes the health and well-being of nurses, quality patient outcomes and organizational and system performance".