HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES Psychological health and safety

Instead, the management of work should consider the protective factors of work that don’t affect the product or the service, but that are known to affect a worker’s mental well-being: • Psychological support • Involvement and influence • Organizational culture • Workload management • Clear leadership and expectations • Engagement • Civility and respect • Balance • Psychological competencies • Psyc. [...] 6 | HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES Research tells us that workers are more resilient when they: • are competent • feel confident in their decision-making and skills • feel like they contribute to a greater good • perform work that aligns with their core values • feel connected to their work • can decide how to perform their tasks • have the skills to adapt to change These are protective psychosocial. [...] • The Health and Safety Committee or Health and Safety Representatives can make a recommendation to the employer that such a standard is adopted by the workplace. [...] Many psychosocial hazards can be removed if the employer considers: • the attention required to perform the job • the memory and information processing required to perform the job • how the work system, process or equipment can create or lead to error • the sensory environment (how much information the worker needs to receive to do the job safely) • where and how workers interact with technology a. [...] The committee should ask: • Have the controls solved the problem? • Do the controls effectively reduce or eliminate the hazard to workers? • Have any new hazards been created? • Are new hazards appropriately controlled? • Are risks caused by any new hazards less severe than the original risk being addressed? • Do the monitoring processes determine when or where the control is or is not working? •.