Psychosocial risk and hazards
Managing psychosocial risk and hazards to improve wellbeing across your organisation
At Transitioning Well we can partner with you to provide a proactive organisational-wide wellbeing solution that includes:
- Conducting an expert review of existing psychosocial procedures, policies and processes (stocktake)
- Applying leading practice that looks beyond the now to address psychosocial risk management into the future
- Preparing your organisation to identify, monitor and manage psychosocial risk
- Co-designing innovative and proactive evidence-based strategies to protect and promote wellbeing
- Strengthening leaders’ confidence and capability to self-manage team and their own wellbeing
- Supporting HR / HSW teams to address the unique needs of your workforce.
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 Risk and Hazards 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
- Customised sessions focused on unique hazards (e.g., ‘Trauma Informed Practice’ addressing traumatic events or material, ‘Challenging/Complex Customers’ addressing customer violence and aggression and ‘Navigating Change’ for change management).
- Psychosocial hazard action planning – collaborative workshops that brings leaders together to solve and collaborate on a plan to mitigate identified hazards in the workplace.
We also acknowledge that providing a psychologically safe workplace is crucial in managing the risk around psychosocial safety. Our 'Cultivating Psychologically Safe Workplace' session is one of our most popular sessions.
We also have a wide section of other workshops and webinars designed to create a mentally healthy workplace.
Contact us to discuss a solution to suite the unique needs of your organisation.
