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Promote a proactive, worker-centric workplace safety culture.
Retain workers by supporting their mental health and well-being.
Open a new paradigm to improve overall safety performance.
Train and educate to engrain a safety-first mindset.
Empower workers to take control of their well-being and fitness for work.
Create a safety culture that encourages honest responses.
Transform your corporate culture with SAHARA!
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ESG & Corporate Wellness
- 90% of all workplace injuries are caused by the worker’s own unsafe actions. Although injuries are physical and visceral, they’re often rooted in something that’s much less visible – a worker’s attitude or state of mind –
- 82% of employees with mental health issues indicate it impacts their work, while only 53% of those with physical health issues say it impacts their work.
- 38.6% of employees would not tell their current manager if they were experiencing a mental health problem.
Many governments around the world are working to use standards to establish mental health in the workplace as a recognized and permanent value. Canada and the United Kingdom are two leading examples.
- The National Workplace Mental Health Standards have identified five elements of implementation: commitment, leadership and participation; planning; implementation; evaluation and corrective action; and management.
- ISO45001ISO 45003 is the first global standard giving practical guidance on managing psychological health in the workplace.
- The Mental Health Services Oversight Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) is currently developing a framework for standards for all employers.
The Canadian Mental Health Commission, in their booklet – Making the Case for Investing in Mental Health in Canada, reported that the economic cost of mental illnesses to the Canadian healthcare and social support system was projected at $79.9 billion for the year 2021.
SAHARA is a SaaS, workplace risk assessment, safety and mental health management and training technology that enables organizations to take proactive steps to realize measurable improvements in safety performance and corporate wellness.
Our mission – to help educate, empower, and proactively mitigate physical and mental health related risks to reduce incidents in the workplace.
SAHARA allows organizations of all sizes to cost-effectively meet and exceed the requirements outlined in the CAN/CSA-Z1003-13/BNQ 9700-803/2013 National Standard of Canada .
This Standard specifies requirements for a documented and systematic approach to develop and sustain a psychosocial healthy and safe workplace including a framework to create and continually improve a psychologically healthy and safe workplace specifically:
- the identification and elimination of hazards in the workplace that pose a risk of psychological harm to a worker;
- the assessment and control of the risks in the workplace associated with hazards that cannot be eliminated;
- implementing structures and practices that support and promote psychological health and safety in the workplace; and
- fostering a culture that promotes psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Highlights
- Integrate client specific hazard matrices for regional HSE regulations, company practices and/or corporate office settings.
- Employer/supervisor and employees can complete SAHARA from their phone or any device providing real-time risk levels and unique and insightful qualitative reporting.
- The Personal Wellness Self-Assessment questions are customizable, responses are confidential, and the risk levels are displayed without disclosing personal details.
- Real-time hazard alerts and immediate access to extensive eLearning courses to help circumvent accidents from occurring can be accessed at any time in over 100 languages from any device.
- Custom Hazards can be added promoting a proactive culture and accurate real-time assessment of overall workplace risk.
- Extensive reporting and data analytic capabilities allow all stakeholders to proactively mitigate physical and mental health hazards to reduce incidents in the workplace.
Combining workplace hazards and psychological health and well-being to calculate risk level is a novel concept and the genesis for SAHARA.
SAHARA educates and empowers workers to recognize potential hazards and how their mental health and mindset directly correlates to increasing their risk of injury in the workplace. The human factors and the hazards identified in the work environment are combined to calculate the Risk Level. The worker’s Risk Level is displayed excluding specific details from their Personal Wellness Self-Assessment.
Anonymity is key to honest responses and eliminating evaluator bias. There may be factors which create an additional hazard the worker does not want to disclose. For example, they may be a driver or operator taking antidepressant medication which is known to cause blurred vision and anxiety, but they do not wish to tell their employer about their medical details.
The Personal Wellness Self-Assessment is confidential and correlates to the worker/employee’s current mental health. Questions related to personal safety, psychological issues, well-being, and right to refuse unsafe work align with emerging standards. Workers that trigger a .
Self-assessed workplace human factors can relate to how the worker is engaged and tasked at the workplace. These may include comfort, confidence, self-assessed ability, training, accident history, peer-pressure, asking for help, pressure to complete work, support etc.
Customizable questions can be specific to the worker at the time of assessment, independent of the workplace and duties e.g., mental fitness-for-work, alertness, sleep, distraction, alcohol or drug impairment components, language, hunger, dehydration, travel time, stress, fatigue, jetlag, shift pattern, anxiety of personal life, despair.
Personalized Recommendations are provided including mobile eLearning courses that directly relate to their job, workplace, selected hazards, and their Personal Self-Assessment. If a High-Risk Level is triggered, workers can access immediate support to an anonymous crisis response support organization and/or Corporate HR representative.
See Industry Vertical Examples – SAHARA 4 Energy, Resources, & Industry , SAHARA 4 Service Hospitality and Tourism , and SAHARA 4 Welding . We can customize or create a new SAHARA version that meets your hazard assessment and safety requirements. SAHARA is delivered free to high schools through the SiS Foundation of Canada.
SWIFT SaaS Platform and LMS Features
SAHARA is integrated into the SWIFT SaaS Platform which includes the SWIFT LMS. The SWIFT LMS provides comprehensive reporting and can incorporate AI and Machine Learning tools enabling data analysis to identify leading and lagging hazard indicators to better manage ESG, HSE, corporate, and employee wellness.
- World class, secure cloud hosting via Azure
- Configured to mirror organization with tiered admin access
- Real-time hazard assessment
- Employee/employer hazard selection and comparison reports
- Incident management & root cause analysis/hazard selection
- Corporate wellness overview report
- Employee mitigation reports
- SWIFT mastered course completions
- Custom reports, and more
Industry Vertical Examples
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Energy, Resources, & Industry
Associated SWIFT eLearning Courses
- Bear Safety Awareness
- Cold Stress Awareness
- Distractions and Proactive Driver Training
- Driver Hours of Service Limits
- Energy Isolation
- Fall Protection Equipment
- General Electrical Safety
- General Fire Safety
- Ground Disturbance and Excavations
- Heat Illness Awareness
- Hydrate Awareness
- Industrial Hygiene Hazards
- Ladder Safety Training
- Mental Health and Well-Being
- Mold Awareness
- Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
- Occupational Noise
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Power Line Awareness
- Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection
- Preventing Back and Other Workplace Injuries
- Productivity Diet
- Psychosocial Workplace Safety
- Respiratory Protective Equipment
- Spill Response and Recovery
- Standard First Aid Overview
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods
- Understanding Sleep
- WHMIS 2015 (GHS)
- Wildlife Awareness
- Working Alone Safety
- Working in Confined Spaces
- Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention 4 Employees
- Workplace Inspections
- Workstation Ergonomics
- Your Rights and Responsibilities at Work
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Service Hospitality and Tourism
Associated SWIFT eLearning Courses
- Cold Stress Awareness
- Distractions and Proactive Driver Training
- Driver Hours of Service Limits
- Energy Isolation
- Fall Protection Equipment
- Heat Illness Awareness
- Hydrate Awareness
- Industrial Hygiene Hazards
- Ladder Safety Training
- Mental Health and Well-Being
- Mold Awareness
- Occupational Noise
- Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection
- Preventing Back and Other Workplace Injuries
- Productivity Diet
- Psychosocial Workplace Safety
- Respiratory Protective Equipment
- SAHARA 4 Service Hospitality and Tourism
- Spill Response and Recovery
- Standard First Aid Overview
- Understanding Sleep
- WHMIS 2015 (GHS)
- Working Alone Safety
- Working in Confined Spaces
- Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention 4 Employees
- Workplace Inspections
- Workstation Ergonomics
- Your Rights and Responsibilities at Work
Click here to see the full list of eLearning courses.
SWIFT conducted a focus group with eight organizations in the service hospitality industry and concluded that the process for assessing hazards was completely disjointed, confusing, and frustrating for managers and supervisors, not to mention the employee. A formal process for assessing psychological health was non-existent.
The SAHARA 4 Service Hospitality and Tourism course is delivered free to high schools through the SiS Foundation. The SiS Foundation is a non-profit organization that has been delivering health, safety, environment, mental health and well-being courses since 2011, with more than 150,000 course completion certificates issued to date.
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Welding
Associated SWIFT eLearning Courses
- Bullying Prevention 4 Youth
- Cold Stress Awareness
- Emergency Response Planning (ERP)
- Energy Isolation
- Fall Protection Equipment
- General Electrical Safety
- General Fire Safety
- Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
- Heat Illness Awareness
- Hydrate Awareness
- Industrial Hygiene Hazards
- Ladder Safety Training
- Mental Health and Well-Being
- Occupational Noise
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Preventing Back and Other Workplace Injuries
- Productivity Diet
- Psychosocial Workplace Safety
- Respiratory Protective Equipment
- Welding Safety Awareness
- WHMIS 2015 (GHS)
- Working Alone Safety
- Working in Confined Spaces
- Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention 4 Employees
- Your Rights and Responsibilities at Work
Custom Solutions
We can customize SAHARA in a matter of days depending on your requirements! From regional HSE regulations, workplace settings and practices, specific worksite hazards to corporate office settings, we can custom develop SAHARA to meet your unique needs.
Both employees and/or employers can complete the hazard assessment for comparison reporting and continuous safety performance improvement opportunities. If a hazard is not listed, it can be added along with the likelihood and severity risk promoting a proactive culture and accurate real-time assessment of overall workplace risk.
With extensive reporting and data analytic capabilities we can help organizations educate, empower, and proactively mitigate mental health issues and, reduce incidents in the workplace – that is our mission.
SAHARA Web-enabled and Mobile App
- Customize existing SAHARA hazard matrices
- Customize or edit Personal Wellness Assessment
- Create corporate workplace specific hazard matrix
SWIFT eLearning Courses
- Customize any existing SWIFT course
- Develop new courses for SAHARA hazard matrix and/or Personal Wellness Assessment
- Integrate other third-party courses.
SWIFT LMS
- Link inspections, audits, compliance, intelligent permits, and other resources
- Predictive Data Analytics implementing ML and AI functionality
- Custom Report
Integration
- External software systems such as HRIS or other LMSs
- Brain Gauge is a sensorimotor testing assessment integrated with the SWIFT SaaS Platform that measures specific spheres in the brain e.g., fatigue, speed, accuracy, plasticity, etc.
- Mental alertness, auditory, screen tracing dexterity, or visual challenge or games.
- Reaction time test or eye-tracking
- IoT e.g., biometric data such as heart rate, blood pressure, recorded sleep, recorded activity
- Inputting hazards via pictures or video
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SiS Youth
SAHARA was one of the most exciting new programs SWIFT launched for youth through the SiS Foundation of Canada . What started as a hazard risk app designed to educate youth about how to recognize hazards in the workplace has become a game changing technology that takes a novel and proactive approach to how we assess hazards on the job and in our daily lives.
We know that the highest rates of incidents in the workplace are between the ages of 18 and 24. Teachers are able to set up their students in over 70 industry-recognized courses including the SAHARA courses linked to the app. Students can download the free SAHARA App from the Google and Apple stores and begin learning about physical hazards in the workplace and how their mental health is a critical factor that impacts their safety!
The first version we launched was for the service hospitality and tourism industry where most young people get their first jobs. Teachers can register their students from the teacher dashboard.
SAHARA will empower young people to recognize how their mental health impacts the decisions that they make and, how that directly correlates to increasing their risk of sustaining an injury or, a dangerous situation in the workplace
SWIFT eLearning Library
HSE, Mental Health, Well-being and Active Lifestyle eLearning Library
- Alberta Driver Hours of Service Limits
- Alberta Off-Campus Education Safety Awareness,
- Alberta OH&S Awareness
- Asbestos Awareness
- Bear Safety Awareness
- Benzene Awareness
- Bullying Prevention
- Bullying Prevention 4 Youth
- CAP Concussion Spotting and Care Protocol
- Cold Stress Awareness
- Critical Incident Investigation
- Cyberbullying and Digital Citizenship
- Distractions and Proactive Driver Training
- Driver Hours of Service Limits (Federal)
- Emergency Response Planning (ERP)
- Energy Isolation
- Fall Protection Equipment (FPE)
- General Electrical Safety
- General Fire Safety
- General Fire Safety for Managers
- GHS (Globally Harmonized System)
- Green Office
- Ground Disturbance and Excavations
- Ground Disturbance and Excavations (IRP 17)
- H2S and Other Toxic Substance Awareness
- Hazard Assessment Procedures
- Hazard Assessment Procedures for Managers
- Hazard Recognition
- Health and Safety Committees
- Health and Safety Program Basics
- Heat Illness Awareness
- Heavy Machinery – It Always Wins,
- Hydrate Awareness
- Industrial Hygiene Program Training
- Internal Responsibility Systems
- Intro to Auto Shop Safety
- Job Safety Analysis
- Journey to Respect and Control
- Ladder Safety Training
- Mold Awareness
- Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material
- Overhead Power Line Awareness
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection
- Preventing Back and Other Workplace Injuries
- Productivity Diet
- Propane and Natural Gas Safety at Home
- Psychosocial Workplace Safety
- Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE)
- SAHARA 4 Service Hospitality and Tourism
- SAHARA 4 Energy, Resources & Industrial
- SAHARA 4 Welding
- Spill Response and Recovery
- Standard First Aid Overview
- That’s Got to Hurt! Lessons from the Workplace,
- The Hole You Dig,
- Tragedy at the Quarry
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG)
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods Awareness
- Understanding Sleep
- Welding Safety
- WHMIS 2015 (GHS)
- Wildlife Awareness
- Working Alone Safety
- Working in Confined Spaces
- Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention for Employees
- Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention for Managers
- Workplace Inspections
- Workstation Ergonomics
- Your Mental Health and Well-being
- Your Rights and Responsibilities at Work