Workplace
Wellness
Program
You’ve worked hard to make your job sites physically safe. But creating a truly healthy workplace doesn’t end there.
Mental health, physical fitness, and inclusive and respectful workplaces help employees bring their best selves to work every day.
Promoting employee well-being and a healthy workplace culture can be especially challenging in construction, with its often-irregular hours and multiple and sometimes remote job sites. And many construction workers still fit the “strong silent” profile and may not find it easy to open up about mental wellness-related issues.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please call:
Canada Suicide Prevention Service
NS Mental Health Crisis Line
Merit’s Workplace Wellness Program is designed to create lasting workplace culture change, with benefits for both employers and employees.
The Program is available, free-of-charge, to all member companies with the NSCIP Benefit Plan.
Our long-standing commitment to the construction industry gives us a deep and unique understanding of the business and your workforce. With a proven track record in benefit services and training delivery, we have extensive and highly-relevant expertise.
How Merit can help you
Promote Well-being
Our long-standing commitment to the construction industry gives us a deep and unique understanding of the business and your workforce. With a proven track record in benefit services and training delivery, we have extensive and highly-relevant expertise.
Customer service is at the heart of what we do. We have a dedicated Wellness Coordinator on our team to ensure smooth and seamless program onboarding and implementation.
feel comfortable talking to their employers about mental illness.
Source: Canadian Centre for
Occupational Health & Safety
experience a mental health problem in any given year.
Source: Mental Health
Commission of Canada
is the cost of mental health problems to the Canadian economy.
Source: Mental Health
Commission of Canada
is the cost of workers’ mental health problems to Canadian employers.
Source: Mental Health
Commission of Canada
WHY MAKE MERIT NOVA SCOTIA
YOUR WORKPLACE
WELLNESS PARTNER?
We represent a large segment of the construction industry, and understand your business and your workplace.
We have a long track record in benefit services and training delivery, with an extensive and highly relevant expertise.
We have a dedicated Wellness Coordinator on our team, to ensure a smooth and seamless program onboarding and implementation.
The Merit NS Wellness Program is:
HOLISTIC:
Addressing diverse, interconnected themes that collectively influence employee well-being.
Ongoing and inclusive:
Companies sign on for a full year, and make the program available to all employees and positively influence workplace culture.
Informed by expertise:
The program was developed and is delivered with the support of leading experts on mental health and other theme-specific areas.
Purpose-built:
Designed for the construction sector, the program delivers actionable information in easy-to-access and relatable ways.
Program
materials
theme-specific materials are delivered in digital formats:
- Overview of theme and resources
- Multiple short educational pieces
- Multiple toolbox talks
- Site posters
- Virtual professional development courses (optional add-on)
- Engaging, self-paced online course that delivers informative multi-media content, practical tips and links
Ready to get started? Register your company now!
Contact the Merit NS Wellness Team at [email protected]