Chevron supports One Step Better: National Depression Screening Day

At Chevron Canada, protecting people and the environment is one of our core values. We work hard to make sure everyone returns home safely each day.

The mental health and well-being of each person plays a critical role in the safety equation. The ability to stay focused on the present task, evaluate risk, share ideas, and make clear decisions, starts with a persons’ mental state.

The working environment we operate in today has changed dramatically. Advancements in technology have been a gamechanger for society, but its affects play out on our mental health. We have information available instantaneously, requiring us to process more information at once and make decisions faster. It’s a lot for us to grapple with on top of societal pressures and managing the day-to-day challenges of life.

Supporting Well-being

Our employees have told us mental health is important. And together, we are listening and learning. We play an important role in creating a psychologically safe, inclusive culture that supports our employees’ well-being, and helps us collectively achieve our goal of ensuring everyone goes home safely each day.

As a company, we currently support our employees’ well-being in three key areas: awareness and prevention, coaching support and crisis management.

Creating awareness of mental health and the impact of well-being is an important first step. We offer a suite of self-guided tools, including a mental health screening tool and online resources through a digital platform designed to build resiliency.

When someone is in a challenging situation, we offer resources like remote one-on-one mental health coaching to help work through life’s challenges before they become too large. We also provide training and coaching to leaders and peers to learn how to have difficult conversations. And if a situation becomes critical, our Employee Assistance Program provides the crisis support needed.

Having an excellent suite of resources is a luxury. But our challenge is getting our folks to use them. How do we encourage our employees to feel safe? to use the resources we have? to engage in difficult and constructive conversations with leaders? to feel empowered to bring their full self to work each day?

We are exploring the answers to these questions in conversation with our employees and through events like the Calgary Chamber of Commerce National Depression Screening Day Community Forum. We look forward to the conversation and opportunity to learn on October 5.

About Chevron Canada

For 85 years, Chevron Canada has been responsibly developing Canada’s energy resources. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Chevron Canada has interests in oil sands projects and shale gas acreage in Alberta as well as exploration, development and production projects offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.  Chevron Canada takes great pride in providing the affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy needed to improve lives and power the world forward. We aim to grow our traditional oil and gas business, lower the carbon intensity of our operations and explore new lower carbon businesses in renewable fuels, hydrogen, carbon capture, offsets and other emerging technologies.

More information about Chevron Canada is available at canada.chevron.com

Want to join Chevron as a sponsor at one of our events? Contact sponsorships@calgarychamber.comfor more information.