This psychosocial risk assessment webinar explores the emerging risks affecting Australian workplaces and what employers are still getting wrong.
Psychosocial risks are now one of the fastest‑growing compliance and cultural challenges facing organisations. With rising work complexity, constant change, and evolving regulatory expectations, employers are under pressure to manage psychological health with the same rigour as physical safety.
Yet real world assessment data reveals a consistent pattern. Most organisations are focused on the wrong risks and missing the controls that matter most.
Psychosocial risks are factors in the way work is designed, managed and experienced that can cause psychological harm to employees.
They arise from disruptions to how people think, feel or interact at work. These risks matter because employers have a legal obligation under Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws to eliminate or minimise them, and unmanaged risks can lead to fatigue, stress, absenteeism, and reduced performance.
Common psychosocial hazards include role conflict through receiving competing instructions, excessive workload or time pressure, and poor consultation or communication during change, all of which can create confusion, frustration and ongoing strain.
Across multiple psychosocial risk assessments conducted in Australian workplaces:
These gaps are not just cultural they create real exposure under:
For further guidance, see SafeWork Australia’s Model Code of Practice. Our Psychosocial Risk Assessment Survey is designed to help organisations identify and address these gaps early.
Spaces are limited for this psychosocial risk assessment webinar
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Michael is an accomplished, commercially focused senior human resource business partner and executive leader. He has a technical trade background and extensive human resource generalist experience in both the public and private sectors.
He enjoys working collaboratively with his clients to solve business problems, build organisational capability and improve business performance. Michael has experience leading organisations through change using contemporary models and methods such as Prosci and People Centred Implementation. He is accredited by TTI Success Insights and has attained DISC, Motivators and Emotional Quotient certification.
He is passionate about organisational development and the employment experience. Learning, engagement, safety and inclusion programs Michael has designed have delivered outstanding results. His work has been recognised through a number of national award programs.
Professional development is very important to Michael. He maintains and enhances his professional practice through association memberships and networking. He actively participates on Boards and various Committees.
Michael is a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, a former Board Director, the immediate past National President and current Divisional Council member of the Australian Institute of Training & Development and former Board Director of the Australasian Corrosion Association. He is a former executive committee member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Network.
Tertiary qualified with a Master’s in Business Administration, Michael is a commercially focused, pragmatic, authentic, resilient and visible leader with a customer service orientation and adaptive leadership style.
03-06-26
12:00 PM
Online Event
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