BC Centre for Women in the Trades, in partnership with the BCFED Health and Safety Centre, is excited to announce Stand Up for Safe Workplaces.

Stand Up for Safe Workplaces is a comprehensive workplace culture and safety training that provides workers, leaders and organizations in the construction industry with practical approaches to create more welcoming, healthy, respectful and safe workplaces. The program applies a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion lens to occupational health and safety.  

This train-the-trainer program provides tools and resources to better equip workers and leaders in construction to recognize and prevent toxic workplace culture; recognize and support mental health and substance harm reduction, and create workplaces where everyone is respected, safe, and feels they belong.  

The program uses interactive, scenario, discussion and skill-based learning to empower and prepare participants to transfer skills learned to their workplaces. Participants will be provided with presentations, toolbox talks, videos, posters and other materials and resources to bring back to their workplaces, organizations, training institutions, unions and communities.  

Topics covered include psychological safety; respectful workplace; bullying, harassment and discrimination; mental health first aid and suicide awareness; harm reduction and the toxic drug crisis, and trauma informed care.  

This pilot program will launch in Spring 2025. 

The program’s development is being funded from the BC government’s Workplace Innovation Fund, part of the Stronger BC: Future Ready Action Plan announced in 2023.