Current Events & Seminars

Building Psychologically Safe & Healthy Workplaces: Navigating Gradual Onset Stress

 Building Psychologically Safe & Healthy Workplaces: Navigating Gradual Onset Stress

Faculty and staff are invited to attend this engaging session with Dr. Arla Day.  

In addition to acute/traumatic workplace events, on-going workplace hazards can exacerbate stress for workers. Nova Scotia has introduced incoming legislation addressing this gradual-onset work stress, and many organizations and workers have questions about what it is and what it means for them.

Dr. Day will talk about these issues in terms of:

• understanding the concept of gradual-onset stress and how it relates to ‘regular’ stress, mental health, & psychological safety
• fostering psychologically healthy workplaces
• integrating psychological safety into workplace health
• leveraging the physical safety literature to talk about stress hazard identification, assessment, and mitigation

For more information, contact Valerie.Wadman@smu.ca