Articles tagged under ‘Preventing psychosocial hazards’

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• Breaking the Sound Barrier — Why David suffered in silence

  A call centre worker's throat discomfort reveals how workplace barriers can compound to transform a manageable health issue into a 6-month silent struggle that threatens wellbeing and career.

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• A GP's prescription for workplace health — A 5-step approach

  By bringing general practice principles to organisational health, Dr. Paula Conroy has a practical, evidence-based prescription for workplace wellbeing.

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• For mental health’s sake, don’t get hurt on the job

  Getting hurt on the job leads to worse mental health outcomes than if you were injured somewhere else.

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• Ground control to workplace health — Preventing psychological claims before they launch

  Research from SuperFriend reveals how measuring workplace experiences could help predict and prevent psychological claims before they occur.

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• Upstream is where it’s at — The case for systemic mental health reform at work

  To reduce psychological claims, organisations must move beyond surface-level interventions and address the upstream factors through better job design, enhanced leadership capability and systemic changes to workplace culture and risk management practices.

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• Where are we at? — psychosocial risk and regulation in Oz, the UK and the US

  How do Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States compare when it comes to regulating and enforcing the management of psychosocial risks and hazards?

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• How do Work Health and Safety psychosocial regulations line up with RTW laws? And how do employers comply with both?

  What should employers do to make sure they're complying with both Work Health and Safety psychosocial regulations and laws about return to work?

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• Webinar recording — The Uncomfortable Truths About Psychosocial Safety

  Best-selling author and workplace wellbeing teacher, Dr. Michelle McQuaid, talks us through how to understand, assess and minimise psychosocial hazards in the workplace.

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• Emotional demands — the invisible forces that influence the experience of work

  What are emotional demands in the workplace? And how do they affect workers' well-being? The answer is not black and white.

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• Webinar recording — Eliminating psychosocial risks

  Jacqueline Agius, the ACT’s WHS Commissioner, talks about what psychosocial hazards are, the impact they have on workers and others and how workplaces can manage the associated risks.

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• The personal, the professional and the psychosocial — A conversation with Jacqueline Aguis, ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner (Part 3)

  Jaqueline Agius, the ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner speaks to RTWM about codes, compliance and the costs of not addressing psychosocial hazards.

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• The personal, the professional and the psychosocial — A conversation with Jacqueline Aguis, ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner (Part 2)

  Jaqueline Agius, the ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner speaks to RTWM about the work the regulator is doing to help businesses address psychosocial hazards.

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• The personal and the professional — A conversation with Jacqueline Agius, ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner (Part 1)

  Jaqueline Agius, the ACT Work Health and Safety Commissioner, speaks to RTWM about the personal incident that informs her work and the messages we teach young people about violence if we don’t address psychosocial risks.

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• Tools to assess psychosocial safety in your workplace

  Free psychosocial risk assessment tools can be a valuable starting point for organisations that are looking to address psychosocial risks in the workplace.

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• Tipping points — are psychosocial hazards present in your workplace?

  Four groups of psychosocial hazards leaders need to look for, and what they can do practically to support their teams.

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• Building a culture of 'and' — balancing cultures of care and legal compliance for workplaces to flourish

  Complying with laws ensures a baseline level of safety. But people and teams do, and feel, better in workplaces that foster cultures of care alongside mitigating risk.

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• From hammer to toolbox — psychological safety is important, but not the only solution to workplace well-being

  ‘Psychological safety’ is not the only aspect of psychosocial risk management that's needed for holistic and sustainable workplace improvements.

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• Psychological safety in the workplace — Part 2: bridging the ‘safety gap’

  Research shows there's often a gap between the psychosocial support leaders say they’re providing and the hazards team members report they are experiencing. Why is this so? And what can we do to bridge that gap?

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• Psychological safety in the workplace — Part 1: moving beyond risk assessment and compliance

  To create psychologically safe workplaces, leaders need to go beyond just assessing risk and focus on leveraging existing strengths to eliminate or reduce these risks.

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• Upping the ante — what the new model code of practice expects of employers

  What exactly does Safe Work Australia’s new model code of practice, Managing psychosocial hazards at work expect of employers?

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• From duty to action — how to comply with the law to ensure psychosocial safety

  Managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace is an important responsibility for employers, particularly human resources managers. What laws apply? And what things should employers consider?

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• Can you hear that sound? It’s the wake-up call for employers to manage psychosocial hazards

  The era of prioritising mental health and psychological safety in the workplace has arrived. There’s been a transformative shift in what employers are expected to do to manage psychosocial hazards at work.

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• Is your organisation ready for regulatory change? — the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of psychosocial risk assessment and control

  This is Part 2 of a 2-part article that summarises a presentation by Professor Angela Martin at the 2022 Workplace Mental Health Symposium. Part 1 dealt with the ‘what’ about how organisations can prevent harm to people's mental health at work’. This part looks at the ‘why’ and the ‘how’.

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• Is your organisation ready for regulatory change? — the ‘what’ of psychosocial risk assessment and control

  This is Part 1 of a 2-part article that summarises a presentation by Professor Angela Martin at the 2022 Workplace Mental Health Symposium. It looks at the ‘what’ about how organisations can prevent harm to people's mental health at work’.

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• Psychosocial safety qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better *

  What is ‘psychosocial safety’? And how does it fit in with legal developments in the area of workplace health and safety?

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• Managing psychosocial triage and intervention — challenges and considerations

  In a recorded presentation for It Pays to Care Symposium on early psychosocial screening and matched care, Associate Professor Ross Iles highlights key challenges and considerations when it comes to managing and improving return-to-work processes.

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• How an occupational safety approach can prevent vicarious trauma

  A Churchill Fellowship report calls for a fundamental shift in how organisations view and manage vicarious trauma.

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• ‘You look much prettier when you smile’ — emerging psychosocial risks in the hospitality industry

  A study identifies some new psychosocial risks in hospitality jobs and proposes a way to assess them.

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• Let’s (not just) get physical — psychosocial hazards play a role in musculoskeletal disorders too

  Three recent studies show how important it is for workplaces to focus on identifying and controlling psychosocial as well as physical hazards if they want to reduce musculoskeletal disorders.

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• Do you see what I see? — there’s safety in unity

  A study suggests that when employers and workers agree on what workplace risks are and how to deal with them — especially psychosocial risks — it can lead to a safer and healthier work environment.

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• A Wysa approach to recovery from work-related injury

  A study of an AI drive app shows that digital psychosocial interventions can improve recovery for people with work-related injuries.

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• Do inspections by regulators prevent psychosocial risks at work?

  A study found that visits by inspectors can improve how companies manage psychosocial risks

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• Be a caring climate engineer — a roadmap for cultivating healthier and more successful workplaces

  Evidence shows that a caring environment can have a powerful impact on workers’ mental health outcomes.

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• Can work health and safety management systems address psychosocial risks?

  Using anonymous data in workplace risk assessments, taking the results seriously and having a systematic approach to managing them can help organisations deal with psychosocial risks.

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• Workplace bullying and sick leave — a 2-way street

  Bullying increases the risk of workers getting sick and taking time off from work, both in the short term and the long term.

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• How do regulators respond to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards? And how should they? — Part 2

  A recent study reveals that when it comes to workplace hazards, work, health and safety inspectors treat psychosocial hazards differently from physical and musculoskeletal hazards.

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• How do regulators respond to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards? And how should they? — Part 1

  A recent study reveals that when it comes to workplace hazards, work, health and safety inspectors treat psychosocial hazards differently from physical and musculoskeletal hazards.

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• Mind and mood — how psychosocial factors shape recovery from surgery

  Research shows that our emotional and mental state can influence how well we heal and bounce back from surgery.

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• Job demands as psychosocial hazards — reducing the risks through the power of nature and virtual reality

  A study suggests that taking a break, getting some exercise and spending time in nature — either in reality or virtually — can help to control the psychosocial risks associated with job demands.

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• The 'wicked' problem of addressing psychosocial hazards — lessons from abroad

  What makes it so hard to effectively assess and implement measures to address psychosocial hazards in the workplace? A study offers insights into the challenges and barriers and how to overcome them.