This guide is designed to provide information, guidance, tools, and resources for Psychologically Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the broader public sectors to employers, JHSC/HSR and other interested parties. The guide can be used 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.

This program guide provides:

• Awareness of supporting provincial legislation and national/international standards.
• A review of the traditional workplace psychological health and safety and psychosocial factors and the additional healthcare factors.
• Occupational health and safety hazard mitigation concepts at the organizational level and at the job-position levels.
• Information on psychological health and safety program development and implementation using systematic occupational health and safety and continuous improvement processes.
• Linkages to existing supporting resources and tools for successful implementation where appropriate.
• Additional tools and checklists to augment existing public resources.