Mental health
Learn about prevention strategies and available resources for managing mental and psychological health and safety.
Understanding mental health and its impacts
Mental health in the workplace refers to the emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing of employees as it relates to their work environment. It’s a vital part of a healthy, respectful, and productive workplace—and it affects everyone. Psychosocial hazards like excessive workload, lack of support, or poor communication can lead to stress, conflict, and, over time, serious mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, or PTSD.
The effects of these hazards on workers are clear, but there are compounding impacts on employers—increased liability, low employee engagement, morale, and productivity—and even clients. Whether you’re an employee navigating personal challenges or an employer working to create a supportive environment, this page offers expert guidance, support, and resources to help you take informed action.
Connect with an expert
PSHSA’s health, safety and wellbeing consultants are experts in psychological health and safety and can support workplaces in enhancing resilience and worker’s mental health.
Psychological safety and mental health for first responders
Although mental health is an important consideration for any workplace, some workers will experience increased risk due to the nature of their jobs. First responders like police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and others face difficult working conditions, compounded by recent crises and mental stress injuries like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that negatively impact their mental health.
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44.5%of Canadian public safety personnel screen positive for at least one mental health disorder
First Responders First
This website offers resources and services for the first responder community to understand the various steps of a PTSD program from managing a crisis through to implementing best practices into an existing program.
Psychological Health and Safety Guide
This guide is designed to provide information, guidance, tools, and resources for employers and other interested parties to build a new psychological health and safety program, and/or to identify program gaps in an existing one. It offers new innovative tools and solutions to enhance and/or augment the program development and implementation journey.
How to enhance resilience and psychological health in your workplace
Canadians are facing a significant mental health crisis and employers play a pivotal role in creating workplaces that support mental and psychological health, safety, and wellbeing. Employers seeking to create environments that promote resilience and psychological health can consider:
- job-based factors such as workload, communication, and supervisor support
- creating clear mental health policies and procedures
- providing mental health support and benefits
- seeking training, both for employers and workers, centered around mental health and resilience strategies
- engage with mental and psychological health and wellness experts
Radius psychological assessment
A groundbreaking new web-based solution to assess job-based risk of psychological harm.
Radius is an online program that empowers workplaces to understand the risks of psychological harm and identify tangible, actionable solutions to enhance worker wellbeing.
Complete a Radius assessment
Access Radius to create a workplace account and assess job-based risk of psychological harm.
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Our skilled and knowledgeable consultants can help you make the most of Radius at affordable rates. Connect with our team to get started and we’ll work together to prevent psychological harm.
Connect with an expert
Connect with an expert
PSHSA’s health, safety and wellbeing consultants are experts in psychological health and safety and can support workplaces in enhancing resilience and worker’s mental health.