What if your biggest hazard is on your leadership team?
Ask a group of executives to name their most significant hazards and you’ll hear about mobile plant, working at heights, stored energy and possibly the contractor everybody worries about. You’ll rarely hear “the way our supervisors talk to their crews at 3pm on a Tuesday.” That’s an expensive blind spot. Leadership behaves like a hazard […]
What Safe Work Australia’s 2024 Report Tells Us About Safety in the Workplace
Safe Work Australia’s latest report on work health and safety (WHS) shows we’ve come a long way, but also reminds us of the work still to be done. While Australia’s work-related injury rate has dropped to 3.5%, much lower than the global average, there are still serious risks, especially in certain industries. Work-Related Fatalities and […]
Practical Ways to Enhance Psychosocial Safety in Your Workplace
Across most states in Australia, new legislation has focused increasingly on psychosocial safety, requiring organisations to evaluate and manage hazards and risks. In the past, organisations have often approached this element of safety reactively after an injury or incident has occurred. This tick-and-flick mentality may have included rolling out yoga and free snacks in the […]
Introducing Solutions for Psychosocial Safety in Your Workplace
The safety landscape has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years, with perhaps the most substantial shift occurring more recently with the recognition of specific psychosocial hazards and psychosocial safety obligations. Globally we have seen the introduction of standards such as ISO45003. In Australia, Safe Work Australia introduced psychosocial health and safety model laws and code of practice, […]
The Perfect Pair: Why Risk Assessment and Climate Measurement Are Essential for Psychosocial Safety
Keeping the workplace safe has always been a priority for employers, but with the psychosocial side of safety now receiving more deliberate attention, it is vital that employers ensure they are creating a work environment that is conducive to their employees’ safety and wellbeing. The psychosocial safety of employees can be affected by a range […]
The New Frontier in Workplace Health and Safety: Taking the Lead on Psychosocial Safety
In 2023 and beyond, psychosocial risk management is expected to be a top priority on workplace agendas due to the release of Safe Work Australia’s model Code of Practice, ‘Managing psychosocial hazards at work’ (and the landmark ISO 45003 global standard, released in 2021). The release of this new code has been hailed as the […]