The Sociopolitical Context of Canada's National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Navigating Policy Implementation

In January 2013, Canada introduced the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. This paper describes how the standard, which is the first of its kind internationally, came to be the instrument of choice within the current Canadian sociopolitical climate. A key consider...

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Autores principales: Malachowski, Cindy, Kirsh, Bonnie, McEachen, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Longwoods Publishing 2017
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Discussion and Debate
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28617234
http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25102
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description In January 2013, Canada introduced the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. This paper describes how the standard, which is the first of its kind internationally, came to be the instrument of choice within the current Canadian sociopolitical climate. A key consideration was that the policy tool had to be packaged in a manner that would be accessible and relevant across all workplaces and across all provinces and territories. This paper explores possibilities for future regulation of the standard.
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spelling pubmed-54734712018-05-01 The Sociopolitical Context of Canada's National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Navigating Policy Implementation Malachowski, Cindy Kirsh, Bonnie McEachen, Ellen Healthc Policy Discussion and Debate In January 2013, Canada introduced the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. This paper describes how the standard, which is the first of its kind internationally, came to be the instrument of choice within the current Canadian sociopolitical climate. A key consideration was that the policy tool had to be packaged in a manner that would be accessible and relevant across all workplaces and across all provinces and territories. This paper explores possibilities for future regulation of the standard. Longwoods Publishing 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5473471/ /pubmed/28617234 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25102 Text en Copyright © 2017 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution.
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