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WorkSafe Saskatchewan has partnered with Dr. Joti Samra and MyWorkplaceHealth to create a range of free resources that can help employers, leaders and workers enhance the psychological health and safety of their work environment.
Contact information
WorkSafe Saskatchewan
Email: worksafeinquiry@wcbsask.com
MyWorkplaceHealth
Dr. Joti Samra, R.Psych., CEO & Founder
Email: swcb@myworkplacehealth.com
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WorkSafe Saskatchewan is a partnership between the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety and the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board, created to reduce the incidence of occupational illness and injury.
The WorkSafe Saskatchewan partnership was formed in 2002 when Saskatchewan’s occupational injury rate sat at a twenty-year record high of 4.95 per cent. WorkSafe Saskatchewan reflected the partners’ belief that public education combined with targeted workplace and industry programming could reverse the trend.
WorkSafe Saskatchewan programming includes social marketing campaigns, a community relations program and targeted workplace and industry interventions.
Dr. Samra is a highly-regarded expert in psychological health and safety (PH&S). Over the past two decades, she has been involved in numerous national initiatives that have contributed to policy change in Canada, and is a Founding & Ongoing Member of the CSA Technical Committee that developed the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health & Safety in the Workplace. This Standard is the first of its kind in the world, and is shaping policy development for workplace PH&S at the international Organization for Standardization (ISO) level.
Dr. Samra is the lead research scientist who created Guarding Minds at Work: A Workplace Guide to Psychological Health & Safety, in which the psychosocial factor frame adopted by the Standard was developed. She is also the developer of the Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment, an assessment and action planning resource that aligns leaders’ skills with the requirements of the Standard. Dr. Samra and her team have extensive expertise in helping organizations implement initiatives related to workplace PH&S including implementation of the CSA Standard; providing leadership development, training and coaching services across a broad range of areas, including emotional intelligence, psychologically safe leadership and mental health awareness; and, providing a breadth of services to enhance employee psychological health, wellness and resilience.
Dr. Samra has received a number of awards and accolades for her clinical and research work. She is proud to be the recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association’s New Researcher Award and the British Columbia Psychological Association’s Advancement of the Profession of Psychology Award. She is also the former President of the BC Psychological Association and past Chair of the BC Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards Committee.
