Imagine you’re applying for a job in a warehouse. The posting explains that you’ll need to regularly lift up to 50 pounds and spend long periods on your feet. During the interview you’re asked whether you’re physically capable of meeting those requirements. On your first day, you’re shown proper lifting techniques, provided with equipment designed to reduce the risk of injury and trained on safe work procedures. None of that feels unusual. In fact, we’d probably question

Picture the healthiest team you've ever been part of. Did everyone always agree? Probably not. In fact, the healthiest teams tend to disagree quite often. They challenge ideas, ask thoughtful questions and look at problems from different perspectives. They respectfully debate different approaches before making decisions. What makes those teams healthy isn't the absence of disagreement. It's the presence of respect. Somewhere along the way, many organizations started confu

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