About Workshop

Creating a safe workplace is both a legal obligation and a strategic investment. Across Alberta and Canada, employers have a duty to provide safe work environments that protect the physical and psychological well-being of workers while complying with occupational health and safety legislation.

Menttora: Academy for Professional Development provides practical, evidence-informed workplace safety training for employers, supervisors, managers, human resource professionals, municipalities, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, and private industry.

Our workshops integrate current legislation, best practices, organizational leadership, and practical risk management strategies to help organizations build safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces.

All workshops can be customized to meet your organization's operational needs and industry requirements.

Occupational Health and Safety

Understanding Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act

This foundational workshop provides participants with an overview of Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety Act, Regulation, and Code. Participants will learn the legal duties of employers, supervisors, workers, contractors, and prime contractors, along with practical strategies for maintaining legislative compliance.

Workplace Safety Across Canada

This workshop examines occupational health and safety principles across Canada, highlighting common legal obligations while exploring key differences between provincial and federal jurisdictions. Participants will gain a practical understanding of Canada's workplace safety framework.

Rights and Responsibilities in the Workplace

Every worker has legal rights and responsibilities. Participants will explore the right to know, the right to participate, and the right to refuse dangerous work, while examining employer and supervisor obligations to maintain safe workplaces.

Due Diligence and Employer Liability

Demonstrating due diligence is one of the most important legal protections available to employers. This workshop explores legal responsibilities, documentation, supervision, training, inspections, and proactive measures organizations can implement to reduce liability.

Psychological Health and Safety

Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Healthy workplaces are both physically and psychologically safe. Participants will learn how to recognize psychological hazards, build respectful workplace cultures, promote employee well-being, and implement strategies that improve engagement and retention.

Preventing Workplace Harassment and Violence

This workshop examines legal obligations related to harassment and workplace violence prevention. Participants will learn how to recognize inappropriate behaviour, respond effectively to complaints, conduct early interventions, and foster respectful workplace cultures.

Bullying in the Workplace

Bullying negatively affects employees and organizations alike. Participants will explore identifying workplace bullying, early intervention strategies, complaint management, leadership responsibilities, and prevention techniques.

Trauma-Informed Workplaces

Employees may bring lived experiences of trauma into the workplace. This workshop introduces trauma-informed principles that help organizations respond appropriately while fostering safety, trust, collaboration, and resilience.

Leadership and Safety Culture

Building a Strong Safety Culture

Safety is more than compliance—it is an organizational value. Participants will learn how leadership influences workplace culture, employee engagement, accountability, communication, and continuous improvement.

Leadership Responsibilities for Workplace Safety

Supervisors and managers play a critical role in maintaining safe workplaces. This workshop examines legal obligations, coaching employees, conducting inspections, managing hazards, and responding to workplace incidents.

Safety Leadership for Senior Executives

Designed for executive leaders and boards, this workshop focuses on governance responsibilities, organizational risk, legal accountability, safety performance indicators, and integrating safety into strategic planning.

Hazard Identification and Risk Management

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Participants will learn systematic approaches to identifying workplace hazards, evaluating risks, implementing controls, and continuously monitoring workplace safety.

Incident Investigation Fundamentals

Learning from workplace incidents prevents future injuries. Participants will examine investigation techniques, root cause analysis, evidence collection, interviewing, documentation, and corrective action planning.

Root Cause Analysis

Rather than focusing solely on individual mistakes, this workshop teaches participants how to identify organizational, procedural, and systemic factors contributing to workplace incidents.

Risk Management in the Workplace

Participants will develop practical skills for identifying organizational risks, implementing mitigation strategies, and integrating risk management into daily operations.

Respectful and Inclusive Workplaces

Respect in the Workplace

Respectful workplaces improve employee satisfaction and organizational performance. Participants will explore communication, professionalism, conflict resolution, diversity, inclusion, and respectful workplace expectations.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Inclusive workplaces strengthen organizations. Participants will examine unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, cultural competence, accessibility, and practical strategies for creating equitable workplaces.

Human Rights in Employment

This workshop explores employer responsibilities under human rights legislation, duty to accommodate, discrimination, harassment, accessibility, and creating inclusive employment practices.

Workplace Investigations

Conducting Workplace Investigations

Organizations must respond fairly and promptly to workplace complaints. Participants will learn investigation planning, procedural fairness, interviewing techniques, evidence assessment, report writing, and recommendations.

Investigative Interviewing Skills

Successful investigations depend upon quality interviews. Participants will develop interviewing techniques that improve information gathering while maintaining fairness, professionalism, and credibility.

Procedural Fairness in Workplace Investigations

Participants will examine natural justice, administrative fairness, confidentiality, documentation, and conducting legally defensible workplace investigations.

Writing Effective Investigation Reports

Participants will learn how to prepare objective, organized, evidence-based investigation reports capable of supporting sound organizational decision-making.

Emergency Preparedness

Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity

Organizations must be prepared for emergencies. Participants will examine emergency planning, evacuation procedures, crisis communications, business continuity planning, and organizational resilience.

Violence Prevention and Active Threat Awareness

Participants will learn strategies for recognizing warning signs, preventing workplace violence, responding to threatening situations, and developing organizational emergency response protocols.

Wellness and Mental Health

Mental Health in the Workplace

Participants will develop a better understanding of common mental health challenges, reducing stigma, supporting colleagues, recognizing warning signs, and accessing available resources.

Burnout Prevention and Employee Resilience

High workplace demands can lead to burnout. Participants will learn practical strategies for building resilience, managing stress, improving work-life balance, and supporting long-term employee wellness.

Compassion Fatigue for Helping Professionals

Helping professions face unique workplace risks. Participants will explore compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, resilience, self-care, and organizational supports.

Communication and Conflict Resolution

Difficult Conversations in the Workplace

Participants will develop practical communication skills for addressing performance concerns, conflict, behavioural issues, and sensitive workplace discussions.

Conflict Resolution and Mediation

This workshop provides practical conflict resolution techniques that improve workplace relationships, communication, negotiation, and collaborative problem-solving.

Effective Workplace Communication

Clear communication improves safety and teamwork. Participants will strengthen listening, feedback, documentation, and interpersonal communication skills.

Specialized Workplace Safety

Safety for Municipal Employees

Designed for municipalities, this workshop examines workplace hazards encountered by municipal employees, legal responsibilities, public interactions, field work, and organizational risk management.

Workplace Safety for Human Service Professionals

Human service professionals encounter unique safety challenges. Participants will examine client interactions, field visits, home visits, de-escalation, documentation, and personal safety strategies.

Workplace Safety for Non-Profit Organizations

Non-profit organizations face unique operational risks. This workshop focuses on volunteer safety, governance responsibilities, risk management, workplace policies, and legal compliance.

Workplace Safety for Educational Institutions

Educational environments require specialized safety planning. Participants will examine violence prevention, respectful learning environments, emergency preparedness, student interactions, and organizational responsibilities.

Technology and Emerging Issues

Artificial Intelligence and Workplace Safety

Artificial intelligence is changing workplace operations. Participants will explore how AI can support hazard identification, incident reporting, predictive analytics, training, and safety management while understanding legal, ethical, and privacy considerations.

Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees

Cybersecurity is an essential component of workplace safety. Participants will learn to recognize phishing attempts, protect sensitive information, respond to cyber incidents, and strengthen organizational security.

Governance and Organizational Excellence

Safety Governance for Boards of Directors

Boards have oversight responsibilities for organizational safety. This workshop examines governance frameworks, due diligence, policy oversight, enterprise risk management, and legal accountability.

Developing Effective Workplace Safety Policies

Strong policies support legal compliance and organizational consistency. Participants will learn how to develop, review, implement, and evaluate workplace safety policies aligned with legislation and best practices.

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Organizations that continuously improve achieve better safety outcomes. Participants will explore quality improvement models, performance measurement, incident learning, employee engagement, and organizational excellence.

High-Demand Executive Workshops

Psychological Health and Safety: Implementing the National Standard

This workshop explores Canada's National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Participants will learn practical implementation strategies, governance considerations, organizational assessments, and continuous improvement planning.

Legal Responsibilities of Employers Following Bill C-45 (The Westray Law)

Participants will examine criminal liability for workplace safety failures under Bill C-45, including the legal duties of organizations and senior officers, due diligence principles, and lessons learned from Canadian case law.

Return-to-Work and Disability Management

This workshop focuses on accommodation obligations, return-to-work planning, modified duties, disability management, and collaboration among employers, employees, healthcare providers, and insurers to support successful workplace reintegration.

Safety by Design: Integrating Prevention into Organizational Planning

Rather than reacting to incidents, organizations can design safety into every aspect of their operations. Participants will learn proactive approaches to hazard elimination, safe work procedures, procurement, facility design, and organizational planning.

Customized Training Solutions

Menttora: Academy for Professional Development recognizes that every organization has unique workplace hazards, legislative obligations, and operational challenges. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all training, we collaborate with organizations to design customized professional development programs that reflect their industry, workforce, and organizational priorities.

Training can be delivered as 90-minute seminars, half-day workshops, full-day courses, leadership retreats, certificate programs, or multi-day academies, available in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format.

Our evidence-informed approach combines occupational health and safety legislation, organizational governance, leadership development, human factors, workplace investigations, psychological safety, and risk management to help organizations create safer workplaces, reduce liability, strengthen compliance, and foster a culture of health, safety, and respect.