Facilitate an effective team discussion about addressing and improving the protection of physical safety in your workplace. The intended outcome is to create a practical and cost-effective action plan that works for your team.
Protection of physical safety
In a work environment with positive protection of physical safety, management takes appropriate action to protect all employees against injury and illness and ensures they have what they need to do their jobs safely.
In an organization with positive protection of physical safety, employees might say:
- When physical risks are identified, my employer responds effectively.
- People at work understand the importance of protecting employee physical safety.
- I have what I need to do my job safely.
Creating awareness: A team discussion
Engage your entire team in reviewing the factors that impact psychological health and safety in your workplace. This approach is recommended by the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. By doing this, you build awareness of the responsibility of each employee to contribute to a positive workplace culture. You also get their involvement in developing and being part of the solution.
Creating change: Facilitating policy development
This session builds on employee ideas developed in the Creating awareness workshop. The next step is to engage decision makers in reviewing employee suggestions against evidence- or practice-based approaches. The objective is to modify or create policies and procedures that improve the protection of physical safety for your organization.
Evidence-based actions for protection of physical safety
Suggested actions are based on research or practice that can improve each psychosocial factor shown. In most cases, free resources are provided to help you move forward, with or without additional funding.
Each of the psychosocial factors identified in Guarding Minds at Work and the National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace have similar resources that can be found in the On the agenda workshop series.