National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Canadian Workplace Released

A new and surprisingly complex Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Standard may be arriving at and impacting your workplace soon. A proposed Standard has been developed, setting out optimistic goals and processes for achieving ‘psychological health and safety’ in the workplace. Policies, procedures, hazard identification, incident investigation and monitoring activities may be required, in addition to all of the existing steps being taken to develop and manage OHS systems. This article introduces and analyses the proposed Standard.

Contributed by Cheryl Edwards and Shane Todd, Heenan Blaikie