Workplace Mental Health Quiz
Test your knowledge with this quiz from ‘Workplace Strategies for Mental Health’ at www.workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com
1. Employees who seek and receive mental health treatment will always develop coping strategies that
address workplace stressors. True or False
2. The leader’s role in creating a healthier workplace includes which of the following strategies:
a. Being a role model of healthy workplace practices
b. Staff meetings to discuss what personality traits are unsuitable
c. Championing a healthy workplace
d. Ensure everyone gets a 10% raise each year
e. A and C
3. While an employer strives to avoid a poisoned work environment, an equally strong motivation for
implementing mental health programs in the workplace is the ‘the business case’. True or False.
4. Stress can instigate other health issues. True or False.
5. When union or organization representatives are helping an employee with mental health issues
return to the workplace, they should be prepared to deal with co-workers who may be resentful of
the returning employees’ accommodation. True or False.
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The answers to the quiz will be provided at the workshop on November 26 , so register now!
Register now and register on-line!
Dr. Martin Shain is coming to Cobourg. Register now for ‘Work Stress and the Law” on November 26th at
the Cobourg Lions Centre. Cost is $70, includes a hot breakfast and resources. Click here to register.
Overview of the workshop by Dr. Martin Shain:
 The new national standard has been greeted with enormous interest mixed with considerable concern about
what it involves in practice. Some of these concerns revolve around the Standard’s legal implications, even
though it is voluntary.
 In this session we will explore why this voluntary Standard came to exist (with a focus on the legal incentives
that drove it) and what its implementation really means.
 Essentially the Standard specifies what a “psychologically safe system of work” should look like. In doing so, it
invites those who are considering its adoption to treat the protection of mental health as a priority in the
same Occupational Health and Safety framework as the protection of physical health.
 This is not a course to be taken without careful deliberation, but properly implemented the Standard is likely
the most useful strategy around to improve the overall health and productivity of a workforce while helping to
steer clear of the legal pitfalls that abound in this area.