Episodes

  • Workplace Change to Reduce Turnover and Improve Wellbeing (Part 2) - with Kate Toth, Kyle Armstrong and Kristine Parsons

    Workplace Change to Reduce Turnover and Improve Wellbeing (Part 2) - with Kate Toth, Kyle Armstrong and Kristine Parsons
    Jun 3 2024
    This is a special two-part episode where we meet team members from YMCA Workwell, a social enterprise dedicated to creating better communities via better workplaces, and one of their clients, Rising Oaks Early Learning Ontario. In this we walk through senior leader buy in, gathering wellbeing data, teams meeting to analyze data and co-create solutions to reduce burnout, increase staff retention, and impact families with great childcare. We take this up a notch to apply to many organizations to show how shared accountability can impact employee wellbeing, workload, burnout, and staff retention.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Workplace Change to Reduce Turnover and Improve Wellbeing (Part 1) - with Kate Toth, Kyle Armstrong and Kristine Parsons

    Workplace Change to Reduce Turnover and Improve Wellbeing (Part 1) - with Kate Toth, Kyle Armstrong and Kristine Parsons
    May 20 2024
    This is a special two-part episode where we meet team members from YMCA Workwell, a social enterprise dedicated to creating better communities via better workplaces, and one of their clients, Rising Oaks Early Learning Ontario. In this we walk through senior leader buy in, gathering wellbeing data, teams meeting to analyze data and co-create solutions to reduce burnout, increase staff retention, and impact families with great childcare. We take this up a notch to apply to many organizations to show how shared accountability can impact employee wellbeing, workload, burnout, and staff retention.
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    59 mins
  • Leadership
Is Key to
Psychological Health and
Safety with Jay Lamont

    Leadership
Is Key to
Psychological Health and
Safety with Jay Lamont
    May 6 2024
    Leadership is key to psychological health and safety experienced by workers. Leadership behaviours that are psychologically safe can be learned and in turn will spawn other healthy components of work and the workplace as leaders are inclusive, connect with employees, and create space for innovation. Jay Lamont walks us through leadership coaching in the field as a practitioner to help create psychologically safe workplaces.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science: Positive Psych & PHS- with Andrew Soren

    Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science: Positive Psych & PHS- with Andrew Soren
    Mar 11 2024
    In this conversation, guest host Erin O'Byrne and leading positive psychology expert, Andrew Soren discuss the importance of meaningful work and its impact on psychological well-being. They explore the concept of eudaimonia and delve into the challenges and hazards of meaningful work, as well as the role of leaders in creating psychologically healthy workplaces. They highlight the importance of ancient wisdom and modern science in shaping workplace well-being. They stress the significance of starting conversations and embracing variability in work-life balance. Also included are recommended reading and further resources.
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    1 hr
  • Psychological health and safety can be "No cost/low cost” - with Kevin Mooney

    Psychological health and safety can be "No cost/low cost” - with Kevin Mooney
    Feb 26 2024
    In this episode Ian speaks with Kevin Mooney, Vice President of Prevention and Employer Services with the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board. Kevin highlights different sources of motivation for companies to take serious action on safety. Serious incidents — fatalities, psychological injuries, and prolonged workplace absence — represent high costs for organizations and Kevin believes prevention efforts are on the right track with raising awareness and demonstrating low cost wins. The WorkSafe Saskatchewan Psychological Health and Safety Resource Centre (https://www.worksafesask.ca/resources/psych-health-safety-resource-centre/workplace-psychological-health-and-safety/) and 7 Step Psychological Health and Safety Road map (https://www.worksafesask.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Psychological-Health-Safety-PHS-Roadmap.pdf) are accessible methods to increase awareness and soon they hope to share the results of pilot projects in local small businesses that demonstrate a simple no cost/low cost approach to identifying and taking action on workplace psychosocial hazards and regular worker feedback. You can follow Kevin on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/kevinmooney76).
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    56 mins
  • Beyond Silence: A Deep Dive into Workplace Mental Health - with Dr. Sandra Moll

    Beyond Silence: A Deep Dive into Workplace Mental Health - with Dr. Sandra Moll
    Feb 12 2024
    In this episode Ian speaks with Dr. Sandra Moll and they discuss why and how the peer support apps PeerOnCall (https://www.oncallapp.ca/) and Beyond Silence (https://www.beyondsilence.ca/) can provide game-changing early intervention for public safety personnel and healthcare workers. Early intervention can prevent a significant degree of harm and suffering. Sandra describes the design, implementation, and function of the apps. Currently the apps are in a research phase where they are researching "what works for whom in what context" to optimize efforts. In the podcast we review how peer support fits in the continuum of workplace mental health recommended by the WHO and why apps and the real people they connect can have a great impact. Peer support is one of many tools and having the right service at the right time can be critical to obtaining early support. PeerOnCall evaluation research was funded by Movember, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Beyond Silence research was funded by CIHR and PHAC. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Government of Canada.
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    55 mins
  • Navigating Macro to Micro Impact - with Carlyn Neek

    Navigating Macro to Micro Impact - with Carlyn Neek
    Jan 29 2024
    In this episode guest host Ian Lewis speaks with Carlyn Neek in a "bottom up" perspective of workplace health by looking at what is happening at the individual level and how you can trace it back to problems in the person - environment - occupation fit. As an occupational therapist Carlyn has a front-row seat on workplace factors impacting individuals. However, when you look on a larger scale, workplaces have many levels that can be acted on. In this podcast they look at the various levels and their impact on the individual to help explain how macro level factors impact individuals at work.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • CHRISTMAS REPLAY: Episode #73 - with Charmaine Hammond

    CHRISTMAS REPLAY: Episode #73 - with Charmaine Hammond
    Jan 8 2024
    THIS IS A REPLAY OF EPISODE #73 The Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast will be returning late January 2024! In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with guest Charmaine Hammond about her work with companies and organizations following traumatic events that change a community in unimaginable ways. When a natural disaster or disaster of human making happens, company leaders, employees, families, and friends find themselves under enormous emotional, psychological, physical, and financial stress. Finding a way back to normal and managing the impact of external factors on the workplace climate, working conditions, and mental health of employees, is a challenge many organizations are not ready to manage. Using the wildfires in Fort McMurray as a case study Charmaine will talk about the kinds of shifts that are needed in these circumstances, the psychological health and safety environment and risk factors that were impacted, and what organizations need to do to prepare when being trauma-informed becomes central to the daily operations. She will also share some of the best actions companies took and how they impacted mental health in the workplace and the company's role in managing during and in the years following the event. Here is a link to the incredible animated short that aims to raise awareness about mental health, through the eyes of woodland creatures coming back home after the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo wildfires, released in July 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD64fAEQnU
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    49 mins