Psychosocial Risk Management Workshop

 

09.00 – 16.00 Tuesday 21 October 2025, Melbourne

Full Day Pre-Conference Workshop:

Designing effective interventions for workplace psychosocial risk management and wellbeing

Psychosocial wellbeing of employees is critical to mitigating the risk of serious injury, fostering positive workplace culture, and ensuring you get the best out of your people. Though many of the new psychosocial risk provisions have now been implemented in some form across Australia, psychological injury and mental ill-health continue to impact organisations of every size. It is more vital than ever that your approach to occupational safety and wellbeing is designed around the key psychosocial hazards and regulatory obligations facing all workplaces – before it’s too late!

This workshop will equip your safety team with the key tools and knowledge needed to create and implement comprehensive and meaningful psychosocial safety interventions. Framing the learnings of the 11th Psychological Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Congress the two days following, you will develop effective mechanisms which measure and address the psychosocial wellbeing of employees strategically, aligned with current WHS regulations, evidence-based tools, and operational best practice. Led by an expert workshop leader, with decades of experience in the psychological safety space, you will build effective and sustainable person-centred psychological safety strategies, based on the specific needs of your workforce, with particular insights including:

• Building your psych safety system around core components of workplace psychosocial wellbeing
• Identifying potential psychosocial hazards for early intervention and prevention
• Ensuring your psychosocial risk management approach is aligned with national best practice
• Investigating potential incidences of realised psychosocial risk with care
• Developing a comprehensive psychosocial safety approach which targets root causes
• Engaging employees and stakeholders in the development of meaningful psychosocial wellbeing programs
• Evaluating the success of wellbeing programs and making continuous improvements

 

Module One: Factors Impacting Workers Mental Health and Providing Support

This module introduces participants to the main factors impacting worker health and wellbeing. It examines job design components including job demands, resources and supports that impact worker health and productivity outcomes. Participants will learn how to apply models for worker psychological health relevant to the context in their own organisation.

• Work-related psychosocial factors impacting worker mental health
• Creating a climate for psychological health and safety
• Understanding psychological models for worker health and motivation

Activity: Identify factors impacting worker mental health in your organisation

 Module Two: Achieving your Legal Obligations through Best Practice Psychosocial Risk Management

Participants will review the latest regulations and codes of practice and learn how they can be applied through best practice psychosocial risk management in their organisation. This will include tools and methods for risk assessment, hazard management, consultation, evaluation and documentation. Participants will learn how to apply the policy and practice based on their organisational contexts.

• Legal obligations and international best practice psychosocial risk management
• How to apply the latest codes of practice and regulations in your region
• Review of tools for risk assessment including ISO 45003 audit, Guarding Minds, People@Work, PSC and PRC16

Activity: Examine existing regional codes and guidelines and how they can be applied based on industry and organisational contexts.

Module Three: Designing Evidence-based Control Strategies to Reduce Risk and Improve Wellbeing

This module examines some the of latest scientific evidence behind best practice psychosocial risk management, including how to design an intervention that will be effective at reducing risk. It will include examples of reasonable and practical controls at the organisational, leadership, job design, and individual levels that have proven to be effective at reducing risk to worker mental health and increase organisational productivity outcomes.

• Using the Psychosocial Safety Hierarchy of Control to examine existing safety systems
• Identifying gaps for targeted psychosocial risk and hazard management
• Case study review for evidence-based intervention design

Activity: Examine your organisations existing policy, procedure and practice and identify gaps for potential intervention

Module Four: Effective Integration for Sustainable Psychosocial Risk and Hazard Management

Participants will examine longitudinal case studies that demonstrate best practice process for psychosocial risk management and identify factors for successful implementation. This will include development of a psychosocial safety action plan for implementation including process for consultation, documentation and evaluation that can be integrating into the WHS systems in their own organisation.

• How to integrate psychosocial risk management into existing WHS systems
• Facilitators and barriers for reducing risk to worker health and promoting wellbeing
• Processes for consultation, documentation, and evaluation for ongoing continuous improvement

Activity: Draft a psychosocial safety action plan for implementation in your own organisation

 

Don’t miss this opportunity to ensure you don’t fall behind! Protect the mental wellbeing of your workforce, above and beyond your obligations!

 

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