Mayday, Mayday 2024 5. Activating Knowledge by Supporting Tools & Services

May 29, 2024 – 10:30am -12:00 pm ET

Mayday, Mayday 2024 5. Activating Knowledge: Tools & Services

Building new, innovative and practical solutions for workers and workplaces is a key goal of the Ontario Prevention System. Learn & begin!

A new tool to assess job-based risk of psychological harm

Introducing the Occupational Psychological Risk Assessment Tool – a collaborative solution for assessing risk of psychological harm on the job. The OPRA is an innovative, web-based tool that uses a shared, participatory approach to review job factors that impact worker mental health, rate subjective risk of psychological harm, and collectively identify solutions to support worker wellbeing.Participants will:

• Review the mental health continuum and job-based psychological harm
• Learn how job factors can impact worker mental health
• Explore a new tool to assess and control risk of psychological harm on the job

Speaker: Tegan Slot,Manager, Workplace Wellbeing, Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA)

A new tool to assess Workplace Violence in the Education Sector

Introducing the Workplace Violence Risk Assessment (WVRA) Tool for the K-12 Education Sector. The WVRA is an innovative, solution that was created by educators, administrators and OHS professionals for their environment. The tool uses a shared, participatory approach to review job conditions where workers may experience violence, assess the risk, and discuss mitigation strategies that are applicable to their environment. Participants will:

• Learn how the Workplace Violence risk assessment was developed.
• Learn how the WVRA tool is to be utilized.
• Next steps for the WVRA tool to be integrated into the education sector.

Speaker: Chris Arsenault, Director, Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Education and Specialized Services, Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA)

JobAssess - accurately and efficiently capture the 4 critical domains of any job.

Introducing OHCOW’s new online Job Demands Analysis Tool in the context of a real workplace, with a focus on capturing cognitive, emotional and environmental demands which impact mental, as well as physical, health. The tool can be accessed by phone, tablet, or computer to assess a job in real time. Users can download the results for their own use, or create a database account to save, build from and compare numerous assessments - a valuable prevention tool for workplaces of any size.

Speaker: Daryl Stephenson – Ergonomist - OHCOW Hamilton