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 mental health and wellbeing than when they arrived.

A world where every workplace leader, manager and contributor is trauma-informed, and a champion of an evidence-based systems approach to psychological health and safety (PH&S). And where PH&S achieves the same level of strategic attention as physical safety and business productivity.

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

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), state 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 and our psychological protection is the result of a convergence of applied organizational and human research, changing workplace conditions, new employee expectations and broader and deepr understanding of people at work, our mental health and stress.  The law lags social change, but clearer legislative obligations in PH&S duty of care for employers emerge everyday.  

A psychologically safe and healthy workplace is not only the absence of or protection from violence, harassment, bullying and discrimination at work, but one where understanding, action and care for mental health and wellbeing is equal to physical safety and health.

Our Client Commitment and Our Team's Guiding Principles:  To show up each day with a learning and growth mindset, practice unconditional positive regard, recognize our shared and different human journeys' and 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 and many other organizational questions:

Are the changes and investments we made to support mental health, designing healthy work and work environments and addressing risk and hazards to mental health doing what we intend?

Are we meeting new legal minimums in psychological (psychosocial) health and safety and our own standards for total worker 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.     

If taking a fresh look at a question, a workplace issue that requires exploration or you have the opportunity to build our your PH&S or Mental Health Strategy, we are pretty darn good at helping to guide you through.

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 of course! 

Recent, correlated and proven science that matches your unique work context!

Aligned with the science and evidence-basis that underscores National Health, Safety and Labour Standards and the IS0 (45001:2018 and 45003:2021) guidelines.

We use human-first and human-centred principles as a standard way of operating when we work with you on your project.  

What does that 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.  Trust and 'psychological safety' 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 from 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.