Prevention & Promotion

The goal of this section is to help you as an employer, envision what a psychologically healthy and safe workplace looks like and to provide a foundation to start building your own action plan to:

• Identify potential and existing issues
• Develop prevention and management strategies for psychological health or safety issues in your workplace

Without a plan in place to address psychological health and safety issues, you or your human resources personnel can spend much of your time dealing with situations that could have been prevented or better managed. We can help you develop strategies that serve the organizational bottom line and have shown to be in the best interests of employees. While the results aren't necessarily immediate, the overall long-term gains are worth the commitment you make today to a healthier, safer and more productive and ultimately, more successful workplace.

Facilitators Resources
Presentations, facilitator guides and workshop outlines related to workplace mental health or psychological health and safety. Free to anyone.

10 Factors in Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace
Outlines Dr. Julian Barling's critically acclaimed strategies for implementing a psychologically healthier workplace.

Evaluating Workplace Health Programs
The Health Communication Unit, Public Health Ontario, offers resources to help you evaluate your workplace health programs.

Senior Leader's Role
Information and resources to help senior leaders foster healthier workplaces. An organization's commitment to create a psychologically healthy and safe workplace has to start at the top.

Health & Safety Committees
Suggestions to help employers consider the importance of psychological health and safety when measuring workplace health and safety in your overall strategy.

Helping Raise Awareness & Reduce Stigma
Information and resources to help organizations reduce stigma for workplace mental health issues.

Occupation-Specific Mental Health Issues
Unique factors that may impact the mental health of employees in certain sectors.

Guarding Minds @ Work™
Resources to help employers assess, measure and address key ingredients to a psychologically healthy and safe workplace.

Towards a Psychologically Safer Workplace: An employer's guide
A Psychologically Safe Workplace is one in which every reasonable effort is made to protect the mental health of employees and to prevent mental injury.

Elements and Priorities for Working Toward a Psychologically Safer Workplace
A report on what employers need to know and/or access to provide a psychologically safe workplace in today's economic environment.

Resources

The following are links to resources that may be of interest to you. If you click on a link you may be entering a third party website not maintained or controlled in any way by Great-West Life.