Building Block 7: Prevention

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Here you’ll find everything you need to create your Action Plan for Building Block 7: Prevention

Begin by reviewing your Current State Assessment score. Next, watch the webinar and read the related information and tips. Finally, create an Action Plan customized to your organization’s needs.

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Watch the Webinar

Purpose of Webinar

This webinar explores how Building Block 7 helps you engage in proactive decision-making to identify behaviours, programs and policies that prevent mental harm. It follows the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.

Tasks from Webinar

  1. Examine what type of prevention programs can be implemented to reduce mental harm and promote mental health
  2. Understand the differences between transactional and transformational programs
  3. Explore how to make decisions when selecting the program type

Download Worksheets and Tools

The Employee Experience Scorecard provides internal champions, HR leaders and senior leaders with a framework for making the business case to invest in mental health. Employee Experience Scorecard, Howatt HR

This document will help you include psychological health and safety in your current incident reporting form, enabling those who use the form to investigate how psychological factors contributed to the event and what preventative measures can be taken in the future. Sample Incident Reporting Form

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Tips from WSPS Consultants

  • Consider integrating psychological hazards into your organization’s monthly inspections.
  • Ask yourself if new activities are introducing risks to the organization. If they are, create a plan to mitigate and manage these risks. Think about evaluation measures from the onset.
  • Use the RACE Model when thinking about prevention. RACE stands for recognize, assess, control and evaluate.
    • Recognize - Recognize psychological hazards by:
      • speaking with employees and listening to concerns, participating in workplace inspections, reviewing reports and records;
      • considering which of the 13+ Workplace Factors might be going unaddressed and creating hazards in your workplace.
    • Assess - Integrate the 13+ Workplace Factors into your existing organizational risk assessment frameworks.
      • use various assessment tools, such as Guarding Minds@Work, Stress Assess, Stress Satisfaction Scan, Mental Fitness Index (fee) or other engagement surveys, to capture aggregate organizational data;
      • ensure leadership involvement and employee participation, while also paying attention to diversity and inclusion, confidentiality and privacy;
      • remember there is an element of subjectivity within risk assessments when it comes to physical health and safety, and even truer for psychological health and safety.
    • Control - Use controls to reduce the likelihood of a risk occurring and to mitigate any negative impact.
      • The most effective methods of controlling risks are those that element hazards, or redesign the systems or processes so that the potential for an adverse psychological hazard is reduced.
      • For psychological hazards, the majority of controls tend to be around awareness, administration, and personal protective equipment (PPE) or personal protective factors. An example of PPE/factors could include resiliency training or carrying a cell phone when working alone.
    • Evaluate - Determine an evaluation approach so you can see if controls are effective and facilitate continual improvement.

Potential Action Items

Practise Mental Fitness

Provide all employees with the opportunity to develop a personalized mental fitness program to enhance their psychological protection. Similar to personal protective equipment, this is the last line of defense for psychological health and safety.

Educate on Mental Health and Addictive Disorders

Provide employees with education and awareness to help remove stigma and facilitate help-seeking behaviours.

Increase Awareness on Suicide Ideation

Suicide is one of the top three causes of death globally. Education can be provided to help normalize suicide ideation, provide pathways for help and encourage talking and early intervention. This can help save lives at work and in the community.

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Additional Resources and Tools

13+ Workplace Factors Toolkits

There are 13+ workplace factors that can contribute to a psychologically healthy and safe workplace.

Many factors influence Building Block 7, but here are some workplace factors to start with:

Speak with a WSPS Mental Health Consultant

Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) offers psychological health and safety consulting services. See how our specialized consultants can help support your journey today.

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