Identifying and addressing the workplace conditions that cause psychological harm in youth and community sector roles.
Understanding Psychosocial Hazards Psychological injury is often a product of how work is designed, not of how resilient a worker is. The ILO and WHO describe psychosocial hazards as the interaction between the work environment, job content, organisational conditions and workers’ capacities and needs. In the social and community sector, Read more
One standard, two systems: Addressing Psychosocial Hazards Every employer in Australia now has a legal duty to manage psychosocial hazards in the same way they manage physical ones. That much is settled. What is not settled, at least for anyone working across state borders, is how that duty is written, Read more
Five tools for supporting recovery after psychological injury (and how to stop it happening again) The average employee recovering from a work-related psychological injury misses 35.7 weeks of work. That is nearly five times longer than the average absence for any other type of workplace injury, according to Safe Work Read more