At Safety Diligence we recognize that employee mental, physical, and psychosocial health is fundamental to organizational success. We can help your firm adopt and implement a comprehensive approach to a healthy workplace as an integral part of their business strategy and operations.
Occupational Health & Safety Issues
We can help reduce work-related injury, illness and disability by identifying and controlling hazards in the physical environment and in work processes, such as:
- Air quality
- Injury & illness prevention
- Emergency response & pandemic preparedness
- Physical, ergonomic, chemical & biological hazards
- Disability management
- Workplace accommodation
- Ergonomics program
- Violence & harassment control
- Personal protective equipment use
- Noise control
Health & Lifestyle Practices
Creating an environment that is supportive of and encourages health enhancing personal lifestyle practices, such as:
- Physical activity
- Workplace accommodation
- Ergonomics program
- Violence & harassment
- Personal protective equipment use
- Noise control
- Healthy eating
- Healthy weight
- Tobacco cessation
- Stress management
- Reduced drug & alcohol use
- Adequate sleep
- Immunization
- Sun safety
Wellness-Related Training
The following mandated training programs touch on many of the above issues for the education and well-being of your staff:
Diabetes, Asthma, Allergies, Blood Pressure, Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight, Importance of Exercise, Hot and Cold environments, Stress Management, avoiding transmissible diseases and Viruses, the importance of safe work habits to avoid injury.
Safety Diligence highly recommends that you encourage your staff to take this vital, 24/7 training. We offer an interactive and fact filled course that our clients continue to have us come back to motivate their staff.
Depending on the size of your company and how many chemicals you use, WHMIS training can be 3 hours or up to a full day.
Proper WHMIS training will educate your staff on the safe use of chemicals, the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment, Noise Control. Vibration Control and Safe Work Practices to avoid injury and or illness.
Safety Diligence incorporates wellness practices into all of its workplace specific WHMIS courses.
Fear and bullying can make a workplace very toxic, even leading to mental health issues. This four-hour training touches on assessing and recognizing workplace issues related to violence, harassment and sexual harassment before the stress of the situation leads to injury or a toxic, stressful situation. Often bullies don’t know they bully and workers suffer in silence while their work performance and health suffer.
Safety Diligence offers a very thought provoking and worthwhile program in Violence and Harassment to help both management and the workers.
Improper work posture, poor lighting, poor ventilation, poorly designed equipment, noise can all contribute to injury and illness.
Safety Diligence can offer a practical workplace assessment and solutions to Ergonomic issues.
Safety Diligence offers hands on ergonomic training that can educate the staff to recognize and adjust as needed to avoid repetitive strain injuries, back injuries, headaches, vision issues and sleep issues due to musculoskeletal issues.
As many people have discovered due to Covid, once you are not working, it is very difficult to get back to work. Getting an injured worker back to work as soon as possible is extremely important for their mental health, self-esteem and often their finances. Depression, a lack of self-worth and anxiety can set in when a person’s life changes due to an injury.
Safety Diligence can help with setting up your modified work programs to get your workers back to work in a meaningful manner.
Ask us about our more in-depth programs and training in promoting a healthy and safe workplace:
- Stress Reduction
- Weight Loss
- Smoking Cessation
- Exercise Programs and activities
- Nutrition Education
- Pandemic Preparedness
- Better sleep
- Sun safety
- and more…!
Serving small and midsized businesses in the GTA and north through the Georgian Triangle