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Psychological Health and Safety for Employers

Understand your role as an employer in creating a psychologically healthy and safe environment.

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$44.95
Format:
e-Course
Language:
English/French
Duration:
2 hours
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Description

This e-course features an improved look and functionality to enrich your learning experience.

People in Canada spend a significant amount of time in the workplace, making its potential impact on our mental health substantial. This course builds upon the learning from introductory courses (Psychological Health and Safety Awareness and Reducing Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace) to give employers a deeper understanding of the roles, responsibilities and factors in creating a psychologically safe workplace.

Topics include:

This course teaches participants the RACE model for improving workplace psychological health and safety:
Recognize

  • Why employers should prioritize psychological health and safety
  • How mental health issues affect workers
  • How promoting psychological health and safety reduces costs
  • Stigma as a barrier
Assess
  • Psychosocial factors affecting psychological health and safety in the workplace. These include: work-life balance, reasonable and clear job demands, feeling valued, respected, and supported, feeling safe at work, having challenging and engaging work, and support for growth and development
Control
  • Implement control measures to assess each psychosocial factor
Evaluate
  • The effectiveness of controls

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Recognize why psychological health and safety is important
  • Gain support for psychological health initiatives across your organization
  • Assess the psychological health and safety of your workplace
  • Understand how different psychosocial factors relate to the psychological health of the workplace, and how to create an environment where workers feel supported
  • Apply appropriate control measures to address psychosocial factors and improve the psychological health and safety of your workplace
  • Evaluate control measures for continuous improvement

This course takes two hours to complete.

Target Audience

This course is recommended for employers and leaders interested in learning about mental health and psychological safety at work. This course is suitable for organizations of all sizes, across all industries and occupations.

We also offer a worker-focused course on this topic: Psychological Health and Safety for Workers.

Prerequisite

Certificate of Completion

Upon completion of the course and passing a final, multiple-choice exam, learners will be able to print a certificate of completion.

System Requirements

This course is delivered online. View the minimum system requirements to take this course.

Review Process

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.

VuBiz Partnership

We partnered with Vubiz - an international leader in e-learning development - to create this e-course. Vubiz offers other related e-learning courses that may also be of interest to you. Read about them in the Vubiz Catalogue of e-learning courses.


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The CCOHS Difference

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.

Certificate of Completion

Earn a certificate upon successful course completion (except free awareness courses).

Created in Partnership

We partner with Vubiz, an international leader in elearning development, to deliver our courses.