Audit Your Workplace Mental Health and Psychological Safety
Keep Your Teams Strong, Safe and Performing
In industrial workplaces like manufacturing, mining and transportation operations, your people are your most critical asset. When shift‑teams and high‑pressure crews struggle silently, from fatigue, stress, or low psychological safety, the result is more missed shifts, more errors, more safety incidents, and higher turnover.
What often gets missed is the silent cost of poor psychological safety and unaddressed mental‑health strain. Our audit service uncovers those hidden risks so you can act before they hit your company's performance outcomes, safety incidents and impact the bottom line.
The Business Case
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Reduced absenteeism & unplanned overtime. When people feel safer and more supported they’re less likely to call in or under‑perform.
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Lower incident/near‑miss rates. Psychological safety and fatigue mitigation reduce error risk.
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Improved retention of skilled shift‑workers. Less turnover, lower recruiting/onboarding cost.
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Better operational performance & reliability. Engaged, safe teams deliver more consistently.
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Stronger safety culture and brand reputation. Making you an employer of choice and reducing hidden costs.
What We Offer
A comprehensive survey + focus‑group audit designed for high‑stress, industrial and shift‑work environments, quipping you with actionable insights to reduce risk, drive engagement, and protect ROI.
Mental Health and Psychological Safety Audit: Phase 1
Delivery of a standardized workplace psychological health and survey across your operations (frontline crews, shift‑teams, control rooms) to measure mental‑health indicators, stress load, fatigue, psychological safety, stigma and support.
How we do it differently:
Workplace engagement and survey tools often have low uptake, especially in industrial and shift-work environments. We provide your team with everything needed for success including:
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virtual kick-off meetings and coordination across departments highlighting the importance and benefits of the audit.
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communications materials for email messaging,
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toolbox talk templates,
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virtual training for frontline/shift supervisors to gain support and buy-in for the survey,
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ready-to-print posters with QR codes linking to the survey,
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video to be used on screens throughout the facility (where applicable)
Add-on option: in person delivery
We'll join you on site and walk the floors, ensuring communication across the entire company. This could include during morning meetings, safety talks, and shift changeovers.
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We'll help you mobilize an internal team to do the same.
Mental Health and Psychological Safety Audit: Phase 2
Delivery of in-person, virtual or hybrid focus‑group sessions in your key operational areas to explore context, uncover root causes, and give voice to teams. Emphasis will be placed on conversations with teams at the ground-level of the operation, across shift teams and within all key areas of the company.
An anonymous summary report of "what we heard" from all focus groups will be included in the final report.
Why this matters?
Providing access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) or wellness services is important, but in shift-work and high-stress industrial environments, it’s rarely enough on its own. Many employees hesitate to use EAPs due to stigma, concerns about confidentiality, or fear of judgment especially when working night shifts, rotating schedules, or in predominantly male teams. Without understanding the real on-the-ground experience of your teams, these programs may go underused while stress, fatigue, and hidden mental health risks continue to impact productivity, safety, and engagement. Our audit goes beyond “off-the-shelf” solutions by uncovering the real barriers, identifying where psychological safety is lacking, and providing actionable insights that align supports with the unique realities of shift-work operations.
Mental Health and Psychological Safety Audit: Phase 3
We review your key company data (like EAP and benefits usage, key workplace policies and sick leave reports), along with your organization's survey data and focus group information and prepare a comprehensive report showing where your risk is highest, where psychological safety is weak, how stigma may be blocking help‑seeking.
How we do it differently:
We don't just give you the data, we provide comprehensive recommendations and practical actions tailored for your environment that can be implemented in the short, medium and long term.
Why This Matters
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Shift‑work, long hours, high stakes: multiple studies show that non‑standard hours and high job strain cause measurable mental‑health risk.
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Psychological safety in industrial contexts is still under‑addressed: workers may feel unable to speak up, admit fatigue or ask for help, creating hidden risk.
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Where you have fatigue + low safety culture + siloed shifts, the cost can escalate quickly. By auditing now, you protect your people, improve engagement, enhance reliability and capture measurable ROI.
Because when your people feel safe, the operation runs stronger.
About Alison
CEO/CWO
Alison Butler is the founder and owner of Alison Butler Training Inc.
We deliver workplace mental health training and customized psychological health and safety services to company teams globally.
Alison holds a Masters in Employment Relations from Memorial University She has been speaking and providing training to workplaces for 20 years and is passionate about starting conversations and creating change.Alison also speaks about her own mental health experiences as a highly engaged employee in the workplace. She believes that the more conversations we can have around mental health, the more we can understand and support each other.
She spent the first part of her career in the non profit sector training on safety, prevention, wellness and disability awareness and is now a business owner with a training focus on mental health, wellbeing, stress management, burnout prevention and work-life balance. She is a Certified Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Trainer through the Mental Health Commission of Canada and teaches courses virtually and in person across Canada.
Alison has experience working with a wide-variety of workplaces and sectors including Government, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, community organizations, energy, construction, aerospace, healthcare and more. She works primarily with leaders, managers, human resources teams and occupational health and safety professionals to coordinate and deliver learning opportunities for their teams.
