Table 1: Selected Elements Adapted from the Positive Practice Environment Campaign’s Checklist That Relate to Occupational Safety and Health

Support structures Effective management practices
  • Invest sufficiently in health and work environments
  • Apply regulatory frameworks for safe workplaces
  • Provide adequate equipment, supplies, and support staff
  • Engage employees in continuous assessment
  • Promote healthy work-life balance
  • Offer employment security and work predictability
  • Ensure practice under an overarching code of ethics
  • Communicate and uphold standards of practice
  • Review scopes of practice and competencies
  • Foster a culture of mutual trust, fairness, and respect
  • Provide occupational health services to all staff
  • Adopt policies to encourage reporting of occupational hazards and injuries
  • Develop policies and procedures to mitigate exposure to occupational hazards including implementation and evaluation
  • Provide resources to ensure optimal safety within working environments
  • Empower and equip all employees to improve occupational health and safety
  • Ensure effective grievance procedures are in place
Educational opportunities Occupational health and safety
  • Support opportunities for regular professional development
  • Offer occupational health education through orientation programs and other team educational opportunities
  • Foster effective supervisory, mentoring, and coaching practices
  • Adhere to safe staffing levels
  • Adopt occupational safety and wellness policies

Source: Adapted from the PPE Campaign (PPE 2012).