Australia
Identifying & Controlling Psychosocial Hazards: Manager Practical Guide
Identify hazards in work design, consult workers, prioritise controls and review whether changes reduce exposure.
Identifying & Controlling Psychosocial Hazards: Manager Practical Guide
Identify hazards in work design, consult workers, prioritise controls and review whether changes reduce exposure.
For
People managers, supervisors, operations managers and HR
Learning outcomes
- Recognise interacting hazards such as demands, low control, poor support and role ambiguity
- Assess exposure by duration, frequency and severity with worker input
- Redesign work and verify controls before relying on resilience or awareness training
Delivery options
- 45 minutes: three 15-minute modules with decision scenarios
- Two 2-hour interactive workplace scenario labs
- 1-day, 6.5-hour practical workshop with hazard register development
Educational draft for review, not legal advice, accreditation or proof of compliance. Confirm current Commonwealth, state or territory law and relevant industrial instruments. Training supports, but does not replace, effective risk controls. Suggested learning durations and refresh reviews are programme recommendations, not universal statutory requirements.
Outline
1. Manager practice and work design
- Recognise interacting hazards such as demands, low control, poor support and role ambiguitytext
- Assess exposure by duration, frequency and severity with worker inputtext
- Redesign work and verify controls before relying on resilience or awareness trainingtext
2. Scenario lab and practical tools
- Decision scenario: choose a safer responsetext
- Workplace toolkit and action commitmenttext
3. Knowledge check
- Apply the learning: four-question assessmentquiz