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How to Get Ahead with Heat Stress and Maintain Safety
After months of stay-at-home orders, businesses are finally starting to reopen - just as we prepare to face the dog days of summer. With construction sites and outdoor work resuming,...
How to Effectively Navigate Employees Back to Work After COVID-19
Across the country, provinces are slowing re-opening the economy and that means that many employees who are currently working from home or who are furloughed will be able to return to...
Reopening and Staying Safe at Work During COVID-19
With an abundance of information on COVID-19 available from various sources, TeksMed is working to curate and provide you with information relevant to your business. We have put...
Dealing with Panic and Uncertainty
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has people on edge would be an understatement. For many fear and anxiety have become a prominent and consistent feeling. With employees working from...
How to Support Employee Mental Health During COVID-19
Mental health is a topic that has been at the forefront for many employers and HR professionals for some time. And with good reason. According to the CMHC, 1 in 5 Canadians will face...
#GetReal During Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week runs from May 4 to 10 this year, and couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. Canadians have been under lockdown orders for nearly two months now in an effort...
Press Release: QuikCare Thrive
TeksMed Services Inc. has launched an app-based mental wellbeing program, called QuikCare Thrive, that is available to employers for free for the expected duration of the COVID-19...
Financial Relief from Workers’ Compensation Boards During COVID-19
During these times of economic uncertainty, many employers are understandably worried about the future of their businesses. With so many other concerns weighing on our minds – staying...
Key Elements of a Successful Disability Management Program
As an employer, you no doubt know the importance of maintaining a healthy workplace. But do you have a game plan for the eventuality that one or more of your employees might suffer...
COVID-19 and What it Means for Employers
The coronavirus pandemic has inarguably affected every facet our lives. Now more than a year into this pandemic, many regions across Canada are still facing restrictions, closures and...
COVID-19 – Short Term Disability Coverage & Sick Leave
For information about Workers Compensation Coverage please refer to this article. Originally posted March 13, 2020 Updated March 24, 2020 With the World Health Organization (WHO)...
COVID-19 – Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Originally Posted: March 13, 2020 Updated: April 7, 2021 With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, Canadian employers...
Supporting Employees with a Mental Health Plan
As an employer, you probably know that it is in your best interest – both from a legal and a financial standpoint – to protect the physical health of your employees. But have you...
How does the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Program Work?
A traumatic event may occur over a few hours or a few minutes, but the long-term effects that it can have on your employees and your business can be devastating. When serious mental...
Personal Days: Why Are They Important?
“Personal Days” can be a tricky topic for Canadian employers to understand. While “sick days” and “vacation days” are fairly self-explanatory, personal days are less so. Each province...
Introducing Thrive: The Mental Health App
A healthy workplace isn’t only about physical health, it’s about mental health as well. When employers treat mental health on an equivalent level with physical health and support the...
Plan the New Year: Put a Disability Management Process & Procedure in Place
The New Year is a time that we set personal and professional goals. If your company doesn’t have a disability management procedure – or you have one and it’s been a while since you’ve...
WSIB’s New Rate Framework: Are You Ready?
As an employer, you should have received within the past month or so a letter from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) providing you with a detailed breakdown of WSIB’s...