A policy analysis of occupational stress injuries in two Atlantic provinces

In Canada, little attention has been paid to current compensation and organizational occupational stress injury and disability policies in the Atlantic region. Most policy analyses have concentrated on Central or Western Canadian provinces. The report focusses on three occupational groups – the police, correctional officers and child protection workers, and examines their current compensation and organizational policies in two Canadian Atlantic provinces: Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) and Nova Scotia (NS). These occupational groups were selected because:

• they are composed of government employees who are engaged in security or protective safety work and
• in response to the growing evidence of significant stress injury problems among these government public safety workers and the relative prominence in media and public discussions about the need for legislative and policy reform specific to mental health.