Our Mission and Purpose

A world where every person, regardless of job, industry or geographic location, goes home from work, not only free of injury and illness, but in a better state of wellbeing than when they arrived.

A world where every workplace manager and individual contributor is trauma-informed, and an effective, psychologically healthy and safety trained organizational leader and champion of a systems-approach to prevent harms and positively influence mental health and wellbeing.

The human and organizational research is clear.  Our most fundamental human needs for thriving are supported by work and workplaces.  Work and meaningful contribution are recognized social determinants of health.  By integrating psychological health and safety-aligned management practices, evolving policies, processes and procedures to support changing conditions you create a radically-inclusive workplace that values whole-person safety, growth  and health. There is a dual benefit -- a direct positive impact on business operations- higher productivity, quality and collaboration.

Workplace health and safety is evolving on a global scale.  International bodies, like ISO Standards (45001 and 45003), the International Labour Organization (ILO) of the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and regional and country jurisdictions are looking at new ways to protect mental health and wellbeing at work.  The WHO has even declared a global stress pandemic.

This expansion of H&S from physical health to include our psychological health is the result of a convergence of research, changing workplace conditions, employee expectations, a deeper understanding of mental health and lagging as the law does, but clearer legislative obligations and duty of care for employers.  A psychologically healthy workplace is not only the absence of harassment, bullying and discrimination, but one where understanding and supporting people are given the same level of attention as financial and business results.

Our Team's Guiding Principles:  To show up each day with a learning mindset, a commitment to ongoing growth in self-awareness, care of our own and the mental health of others, and a commitment to apply a trauma-informed lens to our work together.

  Although workplaces have traditionally focused on physical health and safety hazards, injury and illness, organizational psychology and work research has led to the development of psychological (psychosocial) health and safety and a whole-person approach to health and safety.  That is our niche.  

We help you get clear on these organizational questions:

What is really contributing to, or eroding, our team culture?

Are the changes and investments we made to support employee mental health effective?

Do we know if we are currently meeting new legal minimums in health and safety; especially workplace psychological (psychosocial) health and safety?

 At 13 FACTORS we have built experience supported by the strongest body of knowledge to help you make adjustments and strategic shifts that will achieve internal strategic goals faster.     

To get there, we always start with a simple conversation.

Connect with us if you want to:

-simplify the options and choices in Psychological Health & Safety system integration.

-build a leader-led Psychological Safety culture that supports trust-building and readiness for future H&S system integration.

-choose mental health-focused education that ties into your PH&S program.  

-build new internal capacities and competencies for leaders and individual contributors linked to positive, inclusive, high trust culture (the 13 FACTORS PH&S Learning & Development Program) needed to improve, evolve and sustain a thriving work culture and the integration of a PH&S system.

-or to get an outside POV or assessment on a specific workplace problem or culture challenge, assess the current state of PH&S integration to an established Standard, or are ready to explore the benefits of a psychosocial risk assessment.

What is better than science?  

Better science! 

Recent, uniquely blended, correlated and applied science!

Science and insights for change matched to your work context!

And science further substantiated and embedded in National Jurisdictional Standards and IS0 (45001:2018 and 45003:2021) guidelines.

We create a client-service team environment that is human-first and human-centred and psychologically-safe for every person that we work with in your organization.  This foundational philosophy is central to our work.  

What does it look like?  You will see openness and a lot of curiosity.  You will see an appreciation of the essential and basic human need to be seen, heard, understood, respected and included.  Psychological safety and all it represents is the backbone of our business and our business relationships.  At the same time that we focus on the assignment goals, we focus on living our values of care and compassion, respect and dignity with every person in the process.

We have built all of our services on a combination of data, science and deep subject matter knowledge, skill and experience.  13 FACTORS process of assessment, analysis, recommendations for change, intervention or restoration, training and consulting is always trauma-informed, evidence-based and science-backed.