There's a new idea in occupational health. This idea is psychological safety and health: safeguarding the psychological health of your workforce.

Guarding Minds @ Work (GM@W) provides the following:

• An explanation of the concept of psychological safety and health.
• The business, legal and health case for why this is critically important to all Canadian employers.
• Practical, user-friendly tools designed specifically to measure the psychological safety and health of your workplace.
• Concrete actions that you can take to improve the psychological safety and health of your workplace.
• Tools to evaluate whether what you‘ve done works.

This sounds pretty ambitious, but there are parallels in the area of physical safety and health through the development of standards and practices for occupational safety and health. Over the last few decades, initiatives in the area of physical safety and health have served to reduce the rate of workplace accidents and work-related illnesses. GM@W is intended to expand this area into the domain of psychological safety and health.