Psychosocial hazards and risk
Managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace
At Transitioning Well we can help you unpack the seemingly complex psychosocial hazard landscape.
We can help you:
- Understand psychosocial hazards
- Engage your employees is understanding hazards and managing risk
- Develop plans and risk registers
- Save time and deliver results.
What are psychosocial hazards?
Under Australian law all employers have a duty of care to provide their employees a safe working environment.
When employee are exposed to what we call psychosocial hazards, we know it can result in psychological or physical harm to the employee.
Moreover, the cost to the organisations can be enormous, with loss in productivity, potential loss of staff and potential compensation claims.
Psychosocial hazards
- job demands
- low job control
- poor support
- lack of role clarity
- poor organisational change management
- inadequate reward and recognition
- poor organisational justice
- traumatic events or material
- remote or isolated work
- poor physical environment
- violence and aggression
- bullying
- harassment, including sexual and gender-based harassment
- conflict or poor workplace relationships and interactions
The median compensation paid for mental health conditions was $58,615 per serious claim in 2020-21, compared to $15,743 per serious claim for all physical? injuries and diseases.
Psychosocial Hazards and Risk Workshops and Webinars
We're proud to offer a range of webinars and workshops that address topics around hazards and risk, such as:
- Psychosocial hazards and risk foundations, and the link to metal health and wellbeing
- How to identify and manage psychosocial hazards
- Cultivating psychologically safe workplaces
- Psychosocial hazard action planning – collaborative workshops that brings leaders together to solve and collaborate on a plan to mitigate hazards in the workplace.
We also acknowledge that providing a psychologically safe workplace is crucial in managing the risk around psychosocial safety. Covering such topics as change management, communications, mental health and wellbeing at work, and more all of our workshops and webinars are designed to create a mentally healthy workplace.
Contact us to discuss a solution to suite the unique needs of your organisation.
