Psychological Health and Safety for Employers Updated

Description

The average working person spends a significant amount of time at work, which means that our workplace can potentially have a significant influence on our mental health and well-being. Because of the potential risks, psychological hazards must be given the same priority and attention as physical hazards.

This updated course provides an overview of psychological factors that can affect mental health, and your role in creating a psychologically healthy and safe work environment.

Topics include:

This course is made up of four modules, each one outlining an element of the RACE (Recognize, Assess, Control, and Evaluate) model to improve the psychological health and safety of your workplace.

• 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

• 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.

• Implement control measures to assess each psychosocial factor

• The effectiveness of controls

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

• Identify how the RACE model is important in creating a psychologically healthy and safe workplace.
• Define psychological health and safety and your legal duty to maintain a healthy and safe workplace.
• Explain how addressing psychological health and safety can lead to cost reduction in the workplace.
• Describe how the work environment can affect mental health and how mental health issues affect everyone in the workplace.
• State how to gain support and participation across the organization.
• Recognize how psychosocial factors relate to psychological health and safety assessment.
• Recall the psychosocial factors and summarize them using the six categories.
• Identify common assessment methods that your organization can use.
• Recall how to determine which psychosocial factors to address first.
• Recognize control measures that can improve all psychosocial factors.
• Determine which control measures could be used to target specific psychosocial factors.
• Describe what effective evaluation can look like.
• State the importance of sharing findings and celebrating successes.

Average time to complete this course is approximately two hours.

Target Audience

This course is for employers and leaders to help them understand psychological factors that can affect mental health, and how to create a psychologically healthy and safe work environment. 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 host 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.