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Understanding Psychosocial Hazards For Workers
Enhance your understanding of psychosocial hazards, the role you play in reporting them and discover effective measures to mitigate their impact. As a worker, you may be exposed to these hazards. This course will offer strategies for how you can respond efficiently. This course runs in Perth and select regional locations.
1/2 Day
Overview
The latest WA Work Health and Safety Act 2020 highlights psychosocial hazards in the workplace that have the potential to impact a person’s mental health and feeling of being psychologically safe.
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to proactively identify potential hazards for both you and your colleagues. Additionally, the course will explore practical solutions for addressing these hazards, while clarifying the responsibilities of workers to help maintain a safe working environment.
Who will benefit
Workers and individual contributors, without direct reports, who wish to learn more about how to identify and respond to psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
Content
- Define a psychologically safe workplace
- Understand your responsibilities under the WHS laws
- Identify psychosocial hazards in the workplace
- Create a relationship with your supervisor that allows you to speak up
- Evaluate your role in contributing to workplace issues.
Learning Outcomes
You will learn to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of your responsibilities in compliance with WHS laws
- Identify and assess psychosocial hazards within your work environment
- Establish an effective communication rapport with your supervisor, enabling open dialogue and the ability to voice concerns
- Determine the necessary steps for resolving workplace issues
- Develop a strategic plan for addressing workplace concerns, including prioritising actions and tasks.
Psychosocial hazards can affect anyone, and understanding them is an important part of staying safe at work. This course helps you recognise risks such as high job demands, low support or bullying, and understand how they influence mental health.
You will learn what to look for, when to speak up and how you can play an active role in creating a safer, more respectful workplace."
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.
Create safer, more respectful work environments
This course equips you with practical tools to recognise, respond to and reduce the effects of unhealthy workplace behaviours while building a culture of respect and psychological safety.
Health and Safety Representatives play a vital role in creating safe, well-functioning workplaces. This course builds the confidence and skills needed to represent your work group effectively, communicate clearly about risks and support safer practices.
You will learn how to meet your responsibilities under the WHS Act and contribute to a culture where everyone’s safety is taken seriously."
Readiness for the new legislation in your organisation
