Employers will have to take a proactive approach to preventing chronic mental
stress by
identifying and addressing potential causes, which will be aided by the harassment policies workplaces have had to implement as a result of the Bill 132 amendments to the
Occupational Health and Safety Act that came into force last fall.
Finally, we analyzed the association between psychosocial factors at work and
occupational stress, aiming to
identify work environment characteristics that might be favoring the presence of symptoms relating to
stress.