Creating Healthier Workplaces

The goal of this section is to help you as an employer, envision what a healthy 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 mental health issues in your workplace

Without a plan in place to address workplace mental health, 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, more productive and ultimately, more successful workplace.

Without a plan in place to address workplace mental health, you or your human resources personnel can spend much of your time dealing with situations that could have been prevented or better managed

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

Create Your Own Mental Health Resource List
A guide to help employers develop a list of mental health resources for their employees.

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

Occupational Health and Safety
Suggestions to help employers consider the importance of mental health when measuring overall workplace health.

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

Resources

The following links will take you 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.

More Information
  • Guarding Minds @ Work
    www.guardingmindsatwork.ca
    Tools to assess and address psychological health and safety in the workplace and links to resources available on this website to address risk factors.
  • Canadian Best Practices Portal
    www.phac.gc.ca/cbpp
    The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention is a central and early component of the Canadian Best Practices System.
Last updated on: June 17, 2010