Safe Work Australia

🔎On Monday we looked at identifying psychosocial hazards. Once these hazards have been identified, employers should do a risk assessment to assess the risk.

⚠️ Consider the duration, frequency and severity of workers’ exposure to psychosocial hazards and how these hazards may interact and combine.

🧠🌿Find out more on assessing psychosocial risks in the model Code of Practice on managing psychosocial hazards at work: https://bit.ly/3BrnjvZ

Managing psychosocial hazards is an essential part of creating a healthy and safe workplace. Employers must take proactive steps to prevent harm to workers’ mental and physical health.

Identifying psychosocial hazards is the first step of the risk management process. Workers may talk about their exposure to psychosocial hazards in different ways. For example, they may say they feel stressed, burnt out or emotionally exhausted from their workload.

Download our poster to help you recognise the signs of psychosocial hazards: https://bit.ly/4ofG4ck

🧍🏼‍♂️Men’s Health Week is a reminder that safety at work plays a major role in long-term health and wellbeing.

Our WHS and workers’ compensation data shows men are more likely to experience serious injuries and fatalities at work.

This week, we encourage you to start a conversation about what safety improvements could make the biggest difference in your workplace.