Healthy Workplace - Work Stress and Mental Health

Work Stress

Thirty percent of Hamilton’s working population report experiencing work as "quite a bit stressful" or "extremely stressful" on most days (CCHS, 2007/8).

Learn about the Public Health Services Plan to Help Local Employers Address Work Stress

The Employer Resource Guide: Preventing Work Stress can help employers, managers and supervisors prevent and reduce work-related stress (a referenced version is also available).
 

WHY should work stress matter to your business?

The Business Case:

• Business, Legal & Regulatory, and Health Cases for employers to address workplace factors known to increase work stress in employees: Guarding Minds @ Work
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Cost-Effectiveness, Risk Management, and Retention & Recruitment:
  A Leadership Framework for Advancing Workplace Mental Health
• Assessment of Risks & Returns: Workplace Strategies for Mental Health

HOW can you take action in your workplace?

Models for Action:

• Develop & Implement a Psychological Health & Safety System: National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health & Safety in the Workplace 
• Protect Employee's Psychological Health & Safety: Psychological Health & Safety: An Action Guide for Employers (interactive version).  Click here for printable version.
• Create a Mentally Healthy Workplace: Workplace Mental Health Promotion: A How-To Guide
• Assess and Address Organizational & Process Issues: Guarding Minds @ Work
• Tools for Ontario Workers: Action on Work Stress
• Practical Improvements for Stress Prevention in the Workplace: Stress Prevention at Work Checkpoints