Psychological health and safety community of practice
Our mission and goals
Mission
To actively promote psychological health and safety management systems and provide Saskatchewan employers with information on leadership, best practices, resources, awareness, education, training and supports.
Goals
The community of practice is committed to helping employers understand psychological health and safety in the workplace, the different topics involved and suggestions for implementation to prevent psychological injury to workers.
Guiding principles (how we work together)
As a community, we will strive to:
- Focus on commonalities versus differences.
- Disregard rank/hierarchy. All members have equal status.
- Encourage participation and share the floor. We need to hear from all voices in the room.
Commitment:
- Maintain regular attendance at community of practice meetings.
- Contribute to the community by sharing your journey and learnings in psychological health and safety implementation and integration, providing comments, feedback and asking questions.
Past meetings
Additional resources
WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s 2023-2028 Psychological Health and Safety Program will help partners build capacity for psychological health and safety assessment, as well as action planning, through the prevention and learning stream.
Psychological Health and Safety Resource Centre
WorkSafe Saskatchewan, in partnership with Dr. Joti Samra, R. Psych and MyWorkplaceHealth, has a Psychological Health and Safety Resource Centre to support workers and employers in navigating through the key principles and best practices associated with psychological health and safety.
The centre offers tools and resources to help employers address psychological health and safety in their workplaces, including:
- A psychological health and safety ROADMAP to help organizations take actionable steps to assess and enhance the psychological health and safety of their organization.
- Dr. Samra’s report on the evolution of workplace psychological health in Canada.
- A small business psychological health and safety TOOLKIT to help small businesses reduce common business stressors while remaining mindful of budgets.
- A RETURN-TO-WORK TOOLKIT to help manage the impact of a worker’s disability in a workplace.
- A Deloitte Insights report to better understand common challenges and enablers of program success for psychologically healthy workplaces.
- A psychologically SAFE LEADER ASSESSMENT to help employers identify and strengthen competence in psychological health and safety.
WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s 2023-2028 Psychological Health and Safety Program
WorkSafe Saskatchewan has moved toward having one overarching provincial strategy on addressing serious injuries and fatalities, which involves partners in safety and compliance, compliance and enforcement and prevention and learning.
The 2023-2028 Fatalities and Serious Injuries Strategy focuses on three priority industries and areas of focus that benefit a large majority of Saskatchewan businesses. Partners have acknowledged the challenges with tackling health and safety issues and the need to ensure integration of psychological health and safety as part of future approaches. These issues have translated into a growing prevalence of psychological injury claims.
