Workplace Psychological Health and Safety Guide
Category
- Mental Health
Sector
- Education and Culture
- General
- Government and Municipal
- Health and Community Services
- Public Safety
- Small Business
Type
- Resource Manuals
Description
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.