The BC Centre for Women in the Trades, in partnership with the BCFED Health & Safety Centre, will be hosting a FREE Show Up for Safer Workplaces training at the TRU School of Trades and Technology in Kamloops on March 9-12, 2026.
This innovative new program helps participants become leaders in identifying where psychological safety issues are hurting too many people who work in the construction trades. Show Up supports participants, industry leaders and organizations with practical strategies and tools... helping people recognize and support mental health and substance use concerns, prevent toxic workplace culture, and become active partners in creating healthier and more stable work environments.
Show Up for Safer Workplaces, designed as a four-day comprehensive training program and delivered through a train-the-trainer model, uses interactive scenarios, discussions and skill-based learning to empower and prepare participants to transfer their skills back into the workplace – providing the soon-to-be leaders and trainers with presentations, short “toolbox talks” content and other resources they can share or deliver in their workplaces, organizations, training institutes, unions and communities.
Topics covered will include psychological safety, mental health first aid and suicide awareness, substance use and the toxic drug crisis, and bullying, harassment and discrimination - including strategies on how to build more respectful, stable and healthier workplaces. In addition to the more fulsome training recognition and take-away tools, participants will also attain a certificate in Mental Health First Aid, as developed and recognized by the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Find out more and apply: bccwitt.ca/showup
