Psychological Health and Safety
Training 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.
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
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.
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.
Bundles and Corporate Packages are available.
Contact us to help build out your custom plan.
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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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.