Psychological health and safety showed up in the absence numbers
A community teaching hospital wanted to know whether implementing the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace would move anything measurable.
10.66 → 6.55
absence days per employee
Employer
Toronto East General Hospital
Sector
Teaching hospital
Scale
2,500 employees, 413 physicians and midwives
Period
2008 to 2015
What they did
Full implementation of the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, tracked against the organisation's own baseline.
What was measured
Days absent per employee, 2008
10.66
Days absent per employee before the psychological health standard, 2008
Days absent per employee, 2014
6.55
Days absent per employee after implementation, 2014
Overall health care costs
a 7% decrease
Overall health care costs at the same organisation
What this means for your site
Physical and psychological load are not separate budgets. Nearly half of musculoskeletal long term disability claimants are also claiming for mental disorder medication, which is why our scope does not stop at the musculoskeletal system.
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