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CUPE’s approximately 170,000 members in the municipal sector work in water, roads, planning, public health, childcare and more. They make up just over 20 per cent of CUPE’s membership.

Ticks are small, spider-like creatures that can transmit diseases to humans. Their numbers are growing, which is a concern for CUPE members who work outside.

Mental health can be a difficult topic to engage with. This fact sheet provides a guide to engaging in a healthy dialogue with members about their mental health in a respectful and proactive way. It provides the groundwork for establishing a safe space to foster conversations about mental health at work.

Resilience is the ability to effectively manage situations, even the unexpected, as we go about our daily lives. This factsheet provides an overview of stress and stress-related illness in the workplace, as well as discussing proactive steps to develop and implement effective solutions at work.

Overwork is a health and safety hazard affecting more and more CUPE members. It occurs when workers have too many tasks, too little time to complete them and not enough rest. This factsheet provides an overview of overwork and its impacts on psychosocial health and safety at work. It then provides tips to mitigate and reduce the risks of overwork.

This fact sheet will help you identify psychosocially toxic work and develop effective mitigation strategies. Seeing the symptoms and using the right language to address psychosocial hazards helps to make a healthier work for everyone.

A critical incident is an event, or a series of events, that causes enough stress to overwhelm a person’s ability to cope and return to their normal state of well-being. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of critical incidents, and their potential effects on individuals. It also provides clear instructions for the prevention of, and effective response to critical incidents at work.

Workplace stress is a serious health and safety hazard that can have devastating effects. Stress occurs when there is a poor match between workplace demands and a worker’s degree of control.

Repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) are injuries that happen when you do the same motion over and over, causing stress to your body. These injuries usually affect parts of your body like muscles, nerves and tendons. Common places for RSIs are your wrists, elbows, neck and shoulders. They can cause pain, stiffness, numbness or weakness in these areas. RSIs are often seen in people who type a lot, use tools repeatedly or do other jobs that require the same movements many times.