Workplace Impairment - National Safety Council

The National Safety Council promotes employer policies and procedures that define workplace impairment as anything that could impede one's ability to function normally or safely, regardless of cause. Impairment can be caused by chemical factors, such as legal or illegal substances; physical factors, like fatigue; and psychosocial factors, like mental distress and stress.

Impairment Basics

Learn about the many different causes of impairment.

What You Can Do

Get tools to learn how impairment affects your team and what to do about it.

Understand the Impact

Leverage the data behind impairment to help your employees.

Train Your Team

Train your supervisors to spot the signs and address workplace impairment.

Join the Wellbeing and Safety Advisory Board

The Wellbeing and Safety Advisory Board is a volunteer group of industry, academic and government experts, as well as thought leaders, who strategically advise the Council's efforts in addressing wellbeing-related risk and impairment at work. It informs NSC projects by providing expertise, insight and access to networks that enrich the initiative, shape outreach and events, and engage external parties to broaden the initiative’s reach and impact.

Want to share your expertise or experience with addressing impairment or workplace wellbeing? Join the Wellbeing and Safety Advisory Board. Email wellbeing@nsc.org to learn more and get involved.

Impairment Affects Safety On and Off the Job

Employers who address impairment directly support worker wellbeing – and save money.

Impairment Basics

What You Can Do

Understand the Impact

Train Your Team

Join the Wellbeing and Safety Advisory Board

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