Welcome to the third instalment of the How Do You Eat an Elephant? series, where we're breaking down the 13 psychosocial factors in Canada's National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (CSA-Z1003). If you've been following along, you'll know that the goal of this series is to make psychological health and safety feel less overwhelming. Rather than trying to tackle the entire Standard all at once, we're taking it one psychosocial factor at a time. L

How do you eat an elephant? It's an old saying with a simple answer: one bite at a time. I can't think of a better way to describe Psychological Health and Safety management. When leaders first hear terms like psychological risks, psychosocial hazards and psychological safety, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. There seems to be so much to learn, so many moving parts and so many questions. So where do we even begin? The good news is that creating a psychologically healt

Resilience is one of those workplace words that sounds unquestionably positive. It gets used in leadership conversations, wellness initiatives, conference sessions and organizational messaging. We talk about building resilient teams, supporting employee resilience and helping people become more resilient in the face of change. On the surface, that all sounds reasonable. After all, most of us would agree that the ability to adapt, recover and keep going through difficult sea