Show Up for Safer Workplaces is an innovative new program that helps participants become leaders in identifying where mental health, addiction and psychological safety issues are hurting people who work in the construction trades. Show Up is supporting participants, industry leaders and organizations with practical strategies and tools to address these issues that are impacting too many workers, employers and communities.

Show Up for Safer Workplaces is designed as a four-day comprehensive training program that can help people recognize and support mental health and substance use concerns, prevent toxic workplace culture, and become active partners in creating healthier and more stable work environments.

Delivered through a train-the-trainer model, Show Up uses interactive scenarios, discussions and skill-based learning to empower and prepare participants to transfer their skills back into the workplace–providing the soon-to-be leaders and trainers with presentations, short “toolbox talks” content and other resources they can share or deliver in their workplaces, organizations, training institutes, unions and communities.

Topics covered will include psychological safety, mental health first aid and suicide awareness, substance use and the toxic drug crisis, and bullying, harassment and discrimination—including strategies on how to build more respectful, stable and healthier workplaces. In addition to the more fulsome training recognition and take-away tools, participants will also attain a certificate in Mental Health First Aid, as developed and recognized by the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Our first sessions will launch in the Fall of 2025!

To find out how you can access this innovative new program, contact info@bccwitt.ca.

Show Up for Safer Workplaces has been developed as a partnership between the BC Centre for Women in the Trades and the BCFED Health and Safety Centre, and has been designed using a trauma informed approach that applies a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion lens to the occupational health and safety issues the program addresses. The project is part of the BC Workplace Innovation Fund. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.