


Prevention-first, practical Psychological Health and Safety (PHS) solutions tailored for small and medium employers.


Work shouldn’t cause harm. But too often, organizations only respond after it happens when the damage is done, morale is low, and relationships are strained.
FIX THE WORK NS™ is my signature approach to Psychological Health and Safety (PHS). I help organizations identify psychosocial risks, redesign harmful systems, and embed clarity, fairness and respect into the way work gets done not just into policy binders.
Grounded in the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (CSA Z1003), ISO 45003:2021 and HR best practice, this work focuses on prevention, not reaction, so you can protect your employees and strengthen your culture before issues and impacts arise.
Services include:
- PHS Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments
Structured reviews of psychosocial hazards aligned with the National Standard (CSA Z1003), ISO 45003:2001 and HR best practice. An actionable assessment of what’s working, where risks are hiding, and what’s missing. - PHS Risk Management Strategies
Actionable roadmaps to address and mitigate psychosocial risks, helping you reduce harm and create a safer, healthier workplace. - Workplace Assessment and Culture Audits
Practical tools to understand what’s supporting your culture, what’s causing harm and what you need to do. - Respectful Workplace Policies and Harassment Prevention Programs
Custom-designed policy development and approaches that go beyond compliance to support the respectful culture you want to create. - Respectful Workplace and Harassment Prevention Training
Grounded, relevant learning that helps leaders, teams, and employees create a culture of respect and prevent issues, not just react to them. - PHS Leadership Assessment, Coaching, and Training
Support for leaders to understand their role in creating psychologically healthy and safe work environments. - FIX THE WORK NS™ Tools, Resources, and Learning Labs
Custom designed interactive workshops, field guides, and tools that translate PHS and HR best practice into everyday practice that fits your organization.
Want to prevent workplace harm, burnout, and complaints? Let’s fix the work, not just tick the boxes. Move beyond compliance and create healthier workplaces where people want to be and contribute.
FIX THE WORK NS™ is a prevention-focused framework created by Carla Hurley, HURLEYHR, Hurley Management Consulting and Leadership Coaching and grounded in both Psychological Health and Safety (PHS) principles and Human Resources best practice. Its products and services are designed to help organizations build legally compliant and healthier workplaces.
FIX THE WORK NS™ is the original framework and intellectual property of Carla Hurley, HURLEYHR, Hurley Management Consulting and Leadership Coaching. All rights reserved. Any logos or materials may not be referenced, copied, modified, or redistributed without written permission.

The Prevention of Harassment Workplace Partnership: HR Meets OHS

With Nova Scotia’s new Prevention of Harassment legislation effective September 1, 2025, what was once primarily a cultural HR issue is now a legal OHS requirement. Effective prevention requires HR and OHS to work together like never before.
Through the partnership between HURLEYHR and Sprout Safety, we provide a practical approach for Nova Scotia workplaces, combining HR systems, programs, and people-focused strategies with OHS expertise in risk management and compliance to create healthier workplaces.
Our collaborative work helps workplaces:
- Align HR and OHS policies and processes to meet legislative requirements.
- Protect employee confidentiality while maintaining safety and compliance.
- Clarify roles and responsibilities for prevention, reporting, and investigation – HR, OHS, JOHSC, People Leaders.
- Strengthen leadership development, training and workplace programs to proactively reduce psychosocial hazards and prevent harassment.
As subject matter experts, we have co-authored our “Now What?” series which translates this legal change into practical guidance, making it real for your workplace.
Each article focuses on role clarity, collaboration, and prevention strategies, showing how HR’s people lens and OHS’s systems lens can work together to reduce harm and create healthier, safer workplaces.
Articles in the series:
- Nova Scotia’s Harassment Legislation Provides Opportunity for HR, OHS to Partner
- Nova Scotia’s New Workplace Harassment Prevention Legislation: What JOHSCs Need to Know
- Leadership Accountability Expands Under Nova Scotia’s OHS Harassment Rules
By combining HR and OHS perspectives, HURLEYHR and Sprout Safety are creating healthier and safe workplaces where prevention is embedded in daily operations, not just policy documents.
What’s Coming to Support Harassment Free Workplaces:
- Resources to help
- Professional development
- JOHSC training and compliance toolkit
- Manager tools for the new reality
Need support to create a workplace free from harassment? Be part of the conversation – same hazard, two lenses, better prevention outcomes, healthier workplaces.


