Regardless of the industry where you are in the world, your people are essential to your organization’s success and sustainability. Protecting their psychological safety is a critical business strategy and has many benefits. The Mental Harm Prevention Roadmap created by Workplace Safety & Prevention Services in partnership with Howatt HR, is a website offering free online accessible tools and resources to help employers create and implement sustainable action plans, strategies, programs and policies to implement psychological health and safety in the workplace. The Mental Harm Prevention Roadmap helps guide intentional action by employers to reduce mental harm for employees. As a user-friendly interface based on Canada’s National Standard Psychological health and safety in the workplace: Prevention, promotion, and guidance to staged implementation, the Mental Harm Prevention Roadmap was developed to offer an evidence-based approach, using height (8) building blocks to advance psychological health and safety in any work environments:

1) Foundation 2) Support 3) Planning 4) Leadership 5) Culture 6) Connections 7) Prevention 8) Excellence

This poster will describe how the Roadmap to mental Harm Prevention facilitates the process for psychological health and safety champions to make decisions on where to focus and develop concrete action steps taking into account their unique environment. It will provide practical tools in the creation of mental health strategies required to reflect the specific the needs of organizations and to be scalable as organizations can be at different points on the road to a psychologically safe workplace.