Mentorship

We Match People Not Profiles

The WOHS Mentorship Program will help you network, grow and exchange ideas. The initial mentorship agreement can be for 3, 6 or 12 months and provides our mentors and mentees the opportunity to work together on conquering career goals, breaking gender specific barriers and refining your leadership and coaching skills. We also have mico mentoring opportunities for those waiting in the mentorship queue for their pairing.

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Mentorship Update

To ensure we provide the best possible experience for our members, we have temporarily paused the mentorship application process while we complete the pairing of current applicants and review opportunities to enhance the program.

During this time, we will be refining both the application and matching processes and exploring new options to better support mentors and mentees.

The mentorship program is expected to reopen in January 2027 with an updated process and enhanced offerings.

Thank you for your patience and continued interest in the program. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer to the relaunch. Stay tuned for updates!

Have questions or need assistance? We would be happy to help. Please feel free to contact the WOHSS Mentorship Team at  mentorship@wohss.com, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Programme Announcement

We are pleased to introduce INSPIRE – Innovation, Networking, Skills, Professional Readiness & Empowerment, a new WOHS initiative created to build confidence and readiness for those at the beginning of their occupational health and safety journey in Canada.

INSPIRE target audience is:

  • Recent graduates entering the health and safety profession

  • Newcomers to Canada navigating the Canadian safety landscape

  • Professionals transitioning into health and safety roles

Designed as a mentorship readiness program for those with 0-3 years of experience in Canadian OHS, INSPIRE is a stepping stone into WOHS mentorship programme, preparing emerging safety professionals for a strong and confident start.

INSPIRE focuses on:

  • Developing key soft skills, including communication, professional presence, and workplace confidence

  • Building foundational safety competencies and industry awareness in Canadian OHS

  • Supporting career readiness, including resume development, interview preparation, and understanding professional expectations

  • Creating networking opportunities with like-minded safety professionals

Cost of the program is $60 for 1 year. 

Types of Mentorship

The WOHS Mentoring Program is for WOHS members only. All levels of membership can participate as Mentor or Mentee or both.  If you are not a member or have let your membership lapse, join WOHS today!

Short/Long-Term Mentoring

This matches experienced WOHS members with up and coming OH&S professionals across Canada. It provides an opportunity for mentors to coach mentees who are serious about increasing their OH&S/HSE knowledge and/or leadership skills. Topics will depend on the wants of mentors and mentees and are individual to each relationship.

Micro Mentoring

These micro mentoring sessions provide opportunities for a mentee to pick the mentors’ brains for an hour or two via a speed mentoring group event, or a 1:1 one-time phone call. Preference will be given to those already in the mentorship program; however, we will open events like the speed mentoring to other WOHS members if there is space.

Become a mentee/mentor today!
The application will always be available and our mentorship selection process will take place quarterly. Wait times can be anywhere from 3 weeks to 12 weeks depending on when you apply!
Our Mentorship Committee reviews each application in detail and as a team we discuss the best possible match for both the Mentor and the Mentee. Figuring our which pairings will work well, especially since we have such a diverse membership comes from having a good understanding of the people who are applying. Knowing their experience, skill set and background; their industry experience, career path, education and their personal sets of values and beliefs allows us to create matches for our applicants that encourage and enhance professional growth.

Want to Know More?

Download the Mentorship Handbook.

Mentorship Handbook

A Word From the Mentorship Committee

The mentoring relationship is focused on the professional development of a Mentee through coaching and guidance with an experienced mentor. The relationship develops on a foundation of mutual trust and respect. A successful mentoring relationship should lead to positive outcomes for both the mentee and the mentor through the expansion of knowledge, skills development, creativity and networking. The mentoring relationship provides a safe and confidential forum to discuss work related issues. As such, it should be viewed as a partnership, where both parties openly and freely exchange ideas, discuss challenges and explore potential solutions.

Mentorship Feedback

We need your feedback!

Please use the following form to give your input to our Mentorship Committee on how you felt about your mentorship.

It may also be used at any time to report conflicts or concerns you are having in your current relationship that you would like help addressing.

Mentorship Feedback
"My mentor has been such an incredible catalyst in my life and has helped me excel in my health and safety practice and leadership."
Laura
"I’m not sure who has benefited more from our mentorship arrangement!  I enjoy all of our conversations on a wide variety of topics that have ranged from professional development goals to philosophies and approaches to health and safety."
Denise
"I am so grateful for the WOHS Mentorship program, and my mentor. The main take away for me, is being able to have someone I can reach out to at anytime to ask for advice on dealing with anything from developing forms & directives, getting suggestions on how to resolve issues that arise at work, and ensuring my professional development makes sense for the path I am interested in pursuing."
McKenna
McKenna
"In addition to the value of sharing experiences with a mentee, mentoring also provides us the opportunity to have someone challenge our own preconceived notions and biases. It’s extremely beneficial to collaborate on a problem together and find new solutions that either one of us, independently, may not have found on our own."
Ryan
Ryan
“The WOHS Mentorship Program allows for both the development of the mentor and the mentee. This mutually beneficial program is well designed and well worth the involvement of professions seeking to improve their knowledge and skills.” 
Alan
Alan
"I have been a mentor for most of my working career. Not because I have so much to share, but because I have so much to learn. Being a mentor has helped me to understand myself. The people I have been fortunate enough to share my experiences with have continuously challenged me to “step outside the box”. This has helped me to examine what I think and why; it has shaped me into the safety professional I am today. This has been especially true of my experience as a WOHS mentor."
Holly
Holly
"Based off my pairing, the program will provide much needed coaching, resources and skills training to assist in career and leadership development that you could never learn in the classroom or on the job as a sole practitioner.  It has become a natural extension of my safety education and I would be slightly lost without it."
Erin
Erin