Psychological Safety and Psychosocial Risk for Leaders and Managers

Leaders play a central role in shaping environments where people feel safe to speak up and work without fear of harm.

This course helps you understand your responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act and gives you practical tools to lead with clarity, reduce psychosocial risks and create a culture where wellbeing, respect and trust are part of everyday work.

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What to expect

The Work Health and Safety Act now places a clear legal responsibility on leaders to eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks. This course supports you to understand what that means in practice and how to create psychologically safe environments where people feel able to contribute, collaborate and raise concerns without fear. You will explore the foundations of psychological safety and how leadership behaviours shape people’s experiences at work.

You will learn how to identify psychosocial hazards, assess risk levels and apply effective mitigation strategies using practical tools such as risk matrices and consultation frameworks. The program also helps you reflect on how your own actions and decision-making influence psychological safety, and how to strengthen communication and engagement within your team.

With a focus on clarity and practical implementation, you will build a tailored action plan to support compliance and foster a safer, healthier and more accountable workplace. This ensures you leave with both understanding and a clear pathway to apply the legislation with integrity and confidence.

Is this course for you

This course is ideal for leaders and managers seeking to foster psychologically safe workplaces and meet their responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act.

This course is suited to individuals who want to:

build and sustain psychologically safe workplaces
understand and meet obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act
identify and manage psychosocial risks at work
lead with greater awareness of mental health and wellbeing

What you will explore

During this training course, you will develop the knowledge and leadership capability to create and sustain a psychologically safe workplace. The course focuses on understanding WHS obligations, identifying and managing psychosocial hazards, and applying practical tools and leadership behaviours that support engagement, open communication and effective risk management.

By the end of this training course, you should be able to:

Define and lead a psychologically safe culture
Understand and meet your obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act
Identify and assess psychosocial hazards
Evaluate risks and apply effective mitigation strategies
Use tools such as a psychosocial risk matrix and consultation frameworks
Strengthen team engagement and communication
Reflect on how your leadership approach influences psychological safety
Build a clear, practical action plan for implementation

Where this course can take you

During this training course, you will explore what a psychologically safe workplace looks like and understand responsibilities under WHS laws, including duties for officers and boards. You will learn how to measure psychological safety in teams, identify psychosocial hazards, assess associated risks, and prepare and use a psychosocial risk matrix to support informed decision making.

The course focuses on practical mitigation strategies to reduce psychosocial risk and create environments where people feel safe to speak up. You will reflect on personal contributions to workplace issues, develop strategies for improvement, and build an implementation plan to support ongoing WHS compliance in your workplace.