- 15
- Episodes
- 2022
- First episode
About WorkShift
It’s been said that we learn from experience. But we can learn a lot more when we add the experiences of others to our own. On WorkShift, we're putting leaders in workplace safety on the mic to talk health, safety, but most of all, leadership in a world that has changed forever. Hear the stories behind their successes, and their failures, and how they’re meeting the same challenges you may be facing. Whether you’re a leader or someone who enjoys inspiring conversations, WorkShift will change the way you think about work. To learn more visit: https://www.worksafeforlife.ca/
- Publisher
- Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia
- Category
- business · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Apr 2022
- Latest episode
- 31 Aug 2023
Latest episodes
15 episodes in the feed.
31 Aug 2023
Looking Back and Moving Forward – Season 1 Reflections
As season one of WorkShift comes to a close, Shelley Rowan, Interim CEO of the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia is signing off as host of WorkShift. Shelley served as Interim CEO of WCB Nova Scotia and host of WorkShift from December 2022 to August 2023. After 25 years with WCB Nova Scotia, Shelley retired on Sept 1 from the organization. In this episode, Shelley reflects on what she has learned from some of the brightest leaders and safety champions in Nova Scotia while hosting the WorkShift podcast. The common theme echoed throughout this season is that workplace safety is about people. We all share the responsibility to keep each other safe at work so we can go home to what matters most at the end of the day. We hope the impactful stories shared on this podcast have left a lasting impression, and will surely inspire a positive change in workplace safety. Thanks to our amazing guests we've had the chance to learn more about the community we live in and about how workplace safety is moving forward here in Nova Scotia. "It will take all of us learning from each other and working together to make it the place we know it can be." - Shelley Rowan, Interim CEO Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia We hope you will join us on the next season of Workshift. Until then, thank you for listening and stay safe. Make sure you follow Workshift, a podcast from the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia that helps to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace.
30 Aug 2023
Getting Back is Part of Getting Better
In 2022, Nova Scotians lost around a million working days to workplace injury. That’s the same as nearly 200 people working full-time for a year. It has a huge impact on those individuals and their families, their workplaces, our healthcare system and the province as a whole. As leaders, we have a responsibility to do everything we can to minimize that impact. A key member in this work, of course, our province’s doctors, who are often among the first to see workers after an injury occurs. They play a critical role in helping to set workers on a path to a successful recovery and are important members of the return-to-work team. At the same time, Nova Scotia’s physicians are focused on enabling a culture shift in our province to encourage our population to lead healthier, more active lifestyles. What insights do our province’s medical leaders have about the importance of a safe and timely return to work? Why is staying connected to work after an injury so important for a successful recovery? Joining us for this episode is Dr. Leisha Hawker and Dr. Manoj Vohra. This past June, Dr. Hawker wrapped up her term as the President of Doctors Nova Scotia, the province’s medical association that represents more than 3,500 physicians. Dr. Hawker is currently a practicing physician at the North End Community Health Centre, the Halifax Newcomer Clinic, and the Regency Park Opioid Use Disorder Clinic. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Doctors Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia College of Family Physicians, and the Healthy Tomorrow Foundation. Dr. Manoj Vohra is WCB Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Vohra is also a practicing physician who served as the President of Doctors Nova Scotia from 2017-2018. As part of his role as Chief Medical Officer with the WCB, Dr. Vohra works closely with physicians throughout the province to help them support patients who have been injured at work. In this conversation, we discuss the vital role that work plays in recovery after workplace injury, the long-term effects of being off work, how to support employees in returning to work and the importance of understanding the whole person when building a return to work plan. Make sure you follow WorkShift, a podcast from the Workers' Compensation Board that helps to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace.
29 Jun 2023
Supporting Successful Recoveries
In Nova Scotia and across Canada, we are facing an issue with the workforce that we have never really faced before. We simply don't have enough skilled workers to do the work that needs to be done. We don't have enough skilled workers to fill the jobs that are available across the country. At the WCB, we think that part of the solution to this problem might be right in front of us. In Nova Scotia, more time is lost to workplace injury than it is anywhere else across the country. Almost a million days were lost last year to workplace injury. But what if we could keep those skilled workers safe and healthy at work? What if for those people who did have a workplace injury, we were able to bring them back into the workplace with new and different thinking that would keep them at work longer, and make sure that we have more people doing the jobs that need to be done. Joining us today is Melissa Jenkins. Melissa is the Health and Wellness Manager for Emergency Medical Care. This is the group that operates ambulances and handles 811 and 911 calls in our province. This is an essential group for us as Nova Scotians. Melissa is really leading the way in new approaches to helping people return to the workplace safely in a timely way after a workplace injury. Melissa is also a member of the First Responders Mental Health Steering Committee, along with Shelley Rowan, and through that forum works collaboratively with first responders and leaders from police, fire, nursing, corrections, labour and government, to develop tools and resources to help first responders maintain positive mental health throughout their careers. In this conversation, Shelley and Melissa discuss the elements involved in the return to work process, including risk prevention in emergency medical roles, engaging employees while they are recovering and the importance of an individualized approach to support a successful return to work. Make sure you follow WorkShift, a podcast from the Workers' Compensation Board that helps to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace.
6 Jun 2023
Lessons in Leadership: The Best of WorkShift
It’s hard to believe, but we recently marked a year of doing this show. In that time, we’ve had the pleasure of speaking to a wide range of remarkable safety leaders, who are all deeply passionate about making Nova Scotia a safer place to work and live. There has been something inspirational in every episode we’ve done so far. To mark our first anniversary, we wanted to do something a little different, and listen back and reflect on some of the big lessons we’ve learned. It’s a great opportunity to have those important conversations about the role everyone plays in contributing to a safe work environment. For this episode, we are featuring a compilation of clips from some of our favourite moments from the show so far. Joining us for the conversation is someone who knows a lot about the importance of Safety and Health Week. Craig Whitehead is currently the President and CEO of Safety Services Nova Scotia, and was formerly the Manager of the Corporate Operational Resources department at the WCB. He also took a very active role in planning our own internal Safety and Health Week activities for many years. Together, Shelley and Craig discuss the themes covered from past episodes, including individual impacts on safety and why purposeful leadership is key. We look forward to continuing conversations about the importance of safety, and committing to making improvements to your own workplace safety practices. Make sure you follow WorkShift, a podcast from the Workers' Compensation Board that helps to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace.
20 Apr 2023
Cultivating A Culture of Safety
WCB works with a wide range of partners across the province, and the country, to help support the work we do to keep Nova Scotians safe. As an organization, we know that we will only be successful when we are aligned on that mission. One of the most important partnerships we have is with government, as they help guide the priorities for the province, and set the tone on what it’s like to live and work in Nova Scotia. In episode 8 of our Workshift podcast, Interim CEO and host Shelley Rowan talks to Deputy Ministers Ava Czapalay and April Howe about how they work with their communities to promote a culture of safety in their roles and initiate change in their specific sectors. Ava Czapalay is the Deputy Minister of the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration, and previously served as the Deputy Minister and CEO of the Office of Immigration and Population Growth. In her current role, Deputy Czapalay provides strategic and operational direction to guide the department, and advises the minister on policy, equity and diversity, workplace safety, skills and learning, apprenticeship, labour services, immigration and population growth. April Howe is Deputy Minister of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Deputy Howe has more than 20 years of experience in corporate, government and community leadership. April is a champion for diversity and inclusion both in her role as Deputy Minister and within the broader community. She shares her expertise with other organizations to help create the conditions for true inclusivity in the workplace. Make sure you follow WorkShift, a podcast from the Workers' Compensation Board that helps to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace.
24 Jan 2023
Activity In The Workplace with Dr. Robert Strang and Dr. Jonathan Fowles
In episode 7 of our Workshift podcast, former WCB CEO and Host Stuart MacLean talks to Dr. Jonathan Fowles and Dr. Robert Strang about the importance of physical activity and how leaders can help their workers be more active, and more healthy at work.
26 Dec 2022
A Shift In Leadership
" When we started this podcast, we wanted to invite people into those meeting rooms, and give them a chance to hear directly from the change-makers and hopefully inspire leaders to continue these important conversations in their own workplaces." - Shelley Rowan After 36 years with Worker's Compensation Board and 10 years as CEO, Stuart MacLean has retired and has moved on to a new position with Emera as Vice President of Safety and Environment. In this episode, Stuart MacLean speaks with Shelley Rowan, interim CEO of the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, who will be taking over the role of host of the Workshift podcast. Shelley gives listeners the opportunity to hear directly from leaders, while also inspiring those leaders to continue important safety conversations in their workplaces. Together, they discuss what makes a good safety leader, the value of podcasting to initiate conversations, Stuart's highlights as host and what lies ahead for Workshift, including an episode featuring Dr. Robert Strang and Dr. Jonathan Fowles. Make sure you follow Workshift, a podcast from the Workers Compensation Board, that's helping to rewrite the narrative on what makes a healthy, safe and successful workplace. To learn more visit: https://www.worksafeforlife.ca (https://www.worksafeforlife.ca)
22 Dec 2022
Trailer: A Change In Leadership
Whether you’re a leader or someone who enjoys inspiring conversations, WorkShift will change the way you think about work. Shelley Rowan, interim CEO of the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, speaks with leaders in workplace safety about health, safety, but most of all, leadership in a world that is always changing. Hear the stories behind their successes, and their failures, and how they’re meeting the same challenges you may be facing. It’s been said that we learn from experience. But we can learn a lot more when we add the experiences of others to our own.
24 Nov 2022
New Approaches For Safer Workplaces
In the face of new challenges in the workforce, leaders are being asked to do more today to ensure their workplaces are more physically and mentally safer than ever before. With the exiting of Baby Boomers and industry labour shortages, leaders are being tested in new ways. How do we ensure our skilled workers are healthy and safe at work? How do we have employees return to work in a meaningful way? How do we attract new workers with innovative technology on the rise?
18 Oct 2022
Safety Storytelling with Martin Lesperance
Storytelling is one of the most compelling forms of communication and often the best way to ensure vital information is absorbed by the people you are trying to reach. In episode 5 of our Workshift podcast, WCB CEO Stuart MacLean talks to Martin Lesperance about the effectiveness of storytelling in workplace safety, especially for those in leadership roles, and for young people who are just entering the workforce.
22 Aug 2022
Safety Culture
Safety culture in the workplace guides what your people do when no one's looking. It’s shared perceptions, it’s beliefs, it’s attitudes. For industries that are grappling with labour shortages, building a strong safety culture has never been more important. But what does it mean to have a strong safety culture? How do you build one and more importantly, how do you measure and improve it? We invite you join us for a conversation around creating a strong safety culture with WCB CEO Stuart MacLean and his guest Dr. Mark Fleming, an internationally recognized researcher who aims to provide best practice guidelines and criteria for more successful safety programs.
6 Jul 2022
Leading Safety in Small and Large-Scale Construction
Over the last 10 years the construction sector has seen significant progress in reducing injuries. In fact, they had over 1500 time-loss injuries at one point, and now have less than 500 on an annual basis. We're seeing improvements because people want to see real change. And in construction, leaders have moved from knowing about safety, to really caring about it. A shift in safety culture doesn't come easy. But when it does, we can point to one thing that’s made the biggest difference, and that's strong leadership.
9 Jun 2022
Leading Psychological Safety In The Workplace
There's a role for all of us in creating psychologically safe workplaces. "Organizations need to be very deliberate in making sure that people's psychological strength and fitness is supported and developed." Dr Jackie Kinley. Join us today in this amazing conversation with some amazing leaders around workplace psychological safety. Dr. Jackie Kinley, the Atlantic Institute for Resilience, and Corporal Deepak Prasad, with the RCMP, are here to share their perspectives about Psychological Safety In The Workplace. "The number one thing that we have to remember [sic] is that person coming through that door, that person coming into your office ... stop and remember that they are a human being." Cpl. Deepak Prasad. This is WorkShift, a podcast from the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia. To learn more visit: https://www.worksafeforlife.ca/
9 May 2022
Remembering Westray
May 9, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Westray mining disaster where 26 Miners lost their lives. The disaster left an indelible mark on the province and prompted major changes to workplace health and safety. Today, we have half the number of workplace injuries. We have better awareness, better safety programs, better adherence to safety legislation. A shift in focus that puts safety before profits. If there's a silver lining in Westray it's that it gave us a deeper understanding of what can happen when we don't put safety first.
13 Apr 2022
Trailer: Welcome To WorkShift
Whether you’re a leader or someone who enjoys inspiring conversations, WorkShift will change the way you think about work. It’s been said that we learn from experience. But we can learn a lot more when we add the experiences of others to our own. Stuart MacLean, CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, puts leaders in workplace safety on the mic – to talk health, safety, but most of all, leadership in a world that has changed forever. Hear the stories behind their successes, and their failures, and how they’re meeting the same challenges you may be facing. To learn more visit: https://www.worksafeforlife.ca/
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