Psychological Health and Safety
Training and Assessment Program
Psychological Health and Safety (PHS) is a proactive systems approach focused on addressing work-related areas that contribute to mental health problems and supporting the creation of healthy, safe, and productive workplaces where people, including those who live with mental health problems, can thrive.
Integration of mental health into management systems is a strategic necessity
The Opening Minds PHS program is a unique and innovative combination of training and assessment that bridges the guidance from the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety with the evolving needs of workplaces.
Proud to partner with AuditSoft for the Assessment Program
PHS Training and Assessment Program
The program is designed to meet the full PHS needs of an organization, while maintaining the flexibility needed to meet each organization where they are in their own journey towards PHS excellence. Training and assessment tools can be selected, sequenced and scaled based on your needs.
PHS Training Streams
For employees
Introduction to PHS
- Live Virtually Facilitated Training
- 1/2 day (4 hours)
- Designed for all employees
- Describe the characteristics of a psychologically healthy and safe workplace
- Explain the differences between mental health at work programs and PHS, and how they relate
- Describe their own role in PHS within their organization
CAD Per Person
For People Leaders
Building Team Success
- E-Course, Self-Paced
- Approximately 90 minutes
- People leaders
- Describe the people leader’s role and responsibility in PHS implementation
- Explain where to access additional information and supports for yourself and team members
- Describe the expectations of people leaders leading PHS
- Give concrete examples and scenarios of how to address situations related to PHS within your team
Our self directed e-course is designed to help people leaders like you better understand your role and what your involvement might look like as your organization implements a psychological health and safety strategy.
CAD Per Person
For implementation teams
Integrating PHS
- Live Virtually Facilitated Training
- 2 half-days (5 hours each)
- Designated Implementation team including: Human Resources, People and Culture, Occupational Health and Safety, Wellness teams, Executives
- Understand how to use the OM PHS
- Integration Framework to illustrate how PHS is embedded throughout an organization
- Create a plan for assessing the level of PHS integration in a workplace.
Participants will learn how to integrate PHS throughout workplace systems and practices that are common in many organizations.
This facilitator-led training will empower learners to understand the key elements of work that affect PHS within their organization. Learners will be introduced to the Opening Minds PHS Integration Framework and how to use it in guiding an organization to put PHS into practice in the key areas of work.
This course helps participants in preparing for measuring the level of PHS integration through a PHS Assessment that demonstrates how organizations can be supported to make resource allocation decisions for system improvements.
CAD Per Person
Bundles and Corporate Packages are available.
Contact us to help build out your custom plan.
Assessment
The assessment tool is designed to provide three key benefits
Information and data to make informed decisions about the priorities for your organization’s workplace mental health strategy.
Assessment Process
The Assessment will measure the overall programs that are required to establish a psychologically healthy and safe workplace and then provide recommendations and an action plan to guide strategic planning for improvement. We have partnered with AuditSoft to create a brand new tool to help to assess and integrate PHS in your workplace. AuditSoft’s innovative and easy to use platform helps to make the assessment process easier and efficient.Â
The process includes:
- A review of relevant documentation including policies, processes, and programs
- One-on-one interviews with a cross-section of employees from all levels of the organization to explore current process implementation reach and depth
- Observations related to PHS implementation within your organization
Deliverables to the organization:
- Reporting: Detailed report to guide the organization’s decision-making processes and prioritization for improvements and can help with budget planning and allocation of necessary resources.
- Action Plan: A customizable action plan with steps and actions to help organize, prioritize, and track opportunities in progress.
- Resources: Access to resources to help to support further improvements.
Assessment Options
Have your assessment conducted by a 3rd party specialist through Opening Minds
OR
Certify an internal team member to become an assessor for in-house support.
Frequently Asked Questions
We recommend taking courses that suit the needs of your organization. Depending on where you are on your PHS journey, and what you are trying to accomplish, we can help you to figure out which training courses suit what you are looking for. Introduction to PHS is an excellent starting point for those who may be interested in PHS and familiar with the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in Canada but want to learn more about how PHS can appear in an organization. Integrating PHS into the Workplace is meant for assessment implementation teams and those who are intending to become Assessors. Â
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This program is unique to Opening Minds. As such, all assessments must be done in collaboration with Opening Minds. Opening Minds PHS Assessor Training requires an application prior to registration, and its prerequisite is Integrating PHS into the Workplace. We encourage those interested in becoming assessors to complete an application prior to registration in Integrating PHS into the Workplace. Once an application is approved, the participant may complete their registration and payment for both courses.
Public schedule dates for the Introduction to Psychological Health and Safety course are available here.
The Building Team Success is an e-course and can be purchased at any time here.
Public dates for the Integrating PHS course are coming soon. Please, check back in a few days.
Yes. Assessments are completed by examining three sources of evidence: Documentation, Interviews, and Observations. All three can be conducted virtually. Â
You can decide whether you would like to train an internal assessor or access our external list of assessors to complete an assessment. Our team will provide you with more information. Contact us for details.
This is highly dependent on the size of the organization, methodology used to conduct the assessment, and scope of the assessment. At the moment, we estimate a full comprehensive assessment taking between 10-20 business days.Â
We have several options available for completion of assessments, depending on whether an organization decides to train an internal assessor. External assessors will charge a daily rate for completion of assessments, that they will set themselves. Organizations are encouraged to get in touch with the PHS team to discuss pricing options as each assessment will be unique.Â
Yes. OM has established a rigorous Quality Assurance process to ensure a high standard. All submitted assessment reports will go through the Quality Assurance process prior to being released to the client.Â
