Resources

Get the most from Guarding Minds at Work

View these resources for guidance on how to assess and address psychological health safety in your workplace using the survey, reports, and other tools.

Pre-Survey Resources

Guarding Minds at Workopens a new window

Here you will find a complete overview of all resources as well as tips and strategies to optimize your use of the Guarding Minds tools and related resources. 

Readiness for Guarding Minds at Work

This includes how to make the business case, get buy-in, communicate your plan, choose your approach and successfully set your organization up to address and improve psychological health and safety. 

View the survey statements

Each of the statements included in the employee survey are available to preview. You can also view the statements by psychosocial factor, psychosocial hazard or indicators of workplace inclusion, stress or trauma.

Assessment-Related Resources

Setting Up Your Surveyopens a new window

This user guide will help you with the technical and administrative implementation of the Guarding Minds at Work assessment tools.

Template Letter: Introducing Guarding Minds at Workopens a new window

Modify this suggested wording to introduce the survey to your employees.

Conducting an Organizational Reviewopens a new window (includes worksheets)

You can use this collaborative approach with or without the employee survey. It engages leaders and decision-makers in reviewing the current status of the organization against the psychosocial factors. This can be compared to the survey results or used on its own to create an action plan.

Understanding the Stress Satisfaction Scanopens a new window

This scan is a 6-item employee questionnaire that indicates to what extent your employees report being stressed or satisfied at work. It is intended to be used when conducting the full survey is not practical.

Interpreting Your Guarding Minds at Work Survey Results

Once you have your completed report, this information can help you to analyze your results, share them with others and begin to plan for effective action.

Sample Reports

Sample Survey Report (including organizational comparison data)

This example of a Guarding Minds at Work report shows you the information provided, including psychosocial factors, psychosocial hazards, indicators of workplace inclusion, stress and trauma.

Sample Segmented Report

This version of the Sample Survey Report shows how results can be divided when the optional segmented demographic information is requested.

Sample Stress Satisfaction Scan Report

This is an example of the report that would be generated if you choose to use the Guarding Minds Stress Satisfaction Scan.

Action Resources

Psychosocial hazard mitigation

Suggested actions are based on research or practice that can help mitigate the risk of psychosocial hazards. In most cases, free resources are provided to help you move forward with or without additional funding.

Evidence-based actions for psychological health and safety

Suggested actions are based on research or practice that can improve each psychosocial factor as well as inclusion, stress and trauma. In most cases, free resources are provided to help you move forward with or without additional funding.

Psychological health and safety change process

This process provides you with strategies and tools to create effective and sustainable changes that support psychological health and safety at work. This information is intended for those responsible for policy and process change.

On the agenda workshop series

On the agenda is a workshop series based on each psychosocial factor and includes free materials and facilitator tools. There are two parts to the series:

  • Creating Awareness supports a psychologically safe team discussion about what team members can do to improve psychological health and safety without necessarily having budget or authority to change policy.
  • Creating Change gathers employee feedback and supports decision makers to focus on organizational policies and processes that support psychological health and safety.

Employees' role in psychological health and safety

These free online learning modules help employees learn how to contribute to a mentally healthy workplace. This orientation to psychological health and safety at work is for individuals.

Psychologically safe leader assessment

This free resource helps leaders become aware of the impact they can have on the psychological health and safety of employees at work. It helps leaders improve communication, social intelligence, fairness and problem-solving.

Implementing the Standard

If you are using Guarding Minds as part of implementation of the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (Canadian Standards Association CSA z1003), there are many resources to help support your success.

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