Most workplace safety conversations focus on visible risks: falls, machinery, chemicals, or electrical exposure. These are real, regulated, and actively managed. But there is another category of risk causing far more deaths each year — and it’s often not managed systematically: psychosocial risk. Over the past 15 years of working with organizations across industries, we’ve…
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What Are Psychosocial Risk Factors?
Workplace safety extends beyond physical hazards of the workplace – while easy to see they are only a portion of the safety picture. Safety extends to encompass psychological factors that impact well-being of workers. Several standards and regulations have address psychosocial risk factors including ISO 45003, Canadian and Australian regulation which provide critical guidelines for…
What is the 5i Psychological Health and Safety® Methodology?
The 5i Psychological Health and Safety® (5i PHSTM)is a proprietary methodology developed by EHS Compliance Services Inc. (EHSCSI) to help organizations systematically reduce the risk of psychological harm in the workplace. Rooted in the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle that underpins international standards like ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, the 5i PHSTM Methodology provides a structured, holistic approach…
It’s Time to Build a Workplace That Helps, Not Hurts
A recent NSC survey of 1,500 working adults found the average rate of injury increased from 12% for workers with no clinically significant symptoms of depression to 53% amongst those with severe depression; a similar relationship was found with anxiety symptoms.