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

Welcome to the second instalment of the How Do You Eat an Elephant? series where we're breaking down the 13 psychosocial factors (PSFs) in Canada's National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. In my last blog post, I introduced the Standard and talked about how for many/most organizations, tackling psychological healthy and safety at work can feel overwhelming. There are policies to review, leaders to educate, workplace culture to strengthen and c

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