Preventing workplace meltdown
Subtitle: an employer's guide to maintaining a psychologically safe workplace
By: Martin Shain and Mary Ann Baynton
Contributors: Baynton, Mary Ann
Publisher: Carswell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780779836406
Subjects: Industrial psychiatry; Job stress; Work; Psychological aspects; Industrial Psychology; Methods; Occupational Health; Psychiatrie du travail; Stress dû au travail; Travail; Aspect psychologique
Description: This book is about mental injuries in the workplace - what they are, how to assess the risks of their occurence, how to prevent legal liability for them and how to create psychologically safe workplaces. Mental injury at work has become a recognized category of harm in the law over the last 15 years and every year it becomes more important for employers to understand what it is and how to prevent it. In this book, the authors combine their perspectives on the legal imperative to provide a psychologically safe work environment with strategies and stories that come from actual experiences in the field of workplace mental health. By sharing the worst case scenario - being held legally liable for causing mental injury to an employee - along with the successful approaches used by others, you will learn what to avoid as well as practical strategies to prevent problems.
Notes: "A Carswell implementation guide".

" ... about mental injuries in the workplace-- what they are, how to assess the risks of their occurrence, how to prevent legal liability for them and how to create psychologically safe workplaces"--Cover p. [4].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mental injury and the psychologically safe workplace: emerging legal concepts; title: The duty to provide a psychologically safe workplace: keeping demands within reason; title: The duty to provide a psychologically safe workplace: making it safe to speak up; title: The duty to provide a psychologically safe workplace: monitoring and responding to identified risks; title: The psychologically safe workplace in practice: the roles of governance, management and organizational culture in meeting legal requirements; title: New horizons: creating national standards for the psychologically safe workplace.