Everyone is feeling more overworked and burnt out than ever before. Workplaces are pushing for greater productivity and managing constant change. The world of work is rapidly transforming through AI, automation and global competition, job demands are shifting from being physical in nature to more cognitively demanding.

While established organisations have decades of experience in managing physical hazards, many are less prepared to confidently meet psychosocial risk management obligations.

Never has this been clearer than during the COVID-19 pandemic, as work has shifted online and out of the office, bringing a new set of psychosocial health and safety challenges.

Hear about the new evidence-based methods for proactive management of psychosocial risk, giving organisations a competitive advantage through retention of good staff and increasing productivity.

This Masterclass led by leading psychosocial pracademic Dr Tessa Bailey, explores the practical implementation of psychosocial risk management in organisations of all sizes and industries. Hear about key research and case studies that will help you solidify a psychosocial risk management plan for your own workplace. Hear about best practice workplace resources and successes of other organisations.

Masterclass Agenda

Topic 1: Understanding how ‘Best Practice’ Psychosocial Risk Management can Drive Better Health, Productivity, and Retention Outcomes

· What is psychological health and wellbeing and why is it important?

· Discuss the psychosocial factors and how do they impact workplace wellbeing

· Prevention through job design: How can job design impact bullying in the workplace?

· The theory of stress at work

· Activity: Identifying psychosocial risk factors affecting workplace health and safety

Topic 2: How to Identify Psychosocial Hazards in Your Organisation

· Discussing on why are we hearing so much about psychosocial factors?

· Looking at when does psychosocial factors become hazards?

· What are the differences between psychosocial hazards and risk?

· How to utilise lead indicators for psychosocial risk and to predict future trends in workplace health and safety (WHS) and wellbeing

· Using Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) as a leading of employee’s health

· Activity: Gap analysis of your workplace psychosocial identification process

Topic 3: Exploring Several Psychosocial Risk Assessment Tools to help you to Respond to Psychosocial Risk in Your Workplace

· ISO standard 450003

· Guarding Minds at Work

· People at Work

· Psychosocial Safety Climate

· Proactive Reactive Climate

· Activity Explore the risk assessment tools, their strengths and their weaknesses

Topic 4: Review Case Studies Highlighting Specific Strategies that Successfully Reduced Psychosocial Risk at the Individual, Team, and Organisational Levels

· Research based programs for multiple employers and industries

· Understanding the Psychosocial Safety Hierarchy of Controls (PSHoC) and how to use it

· Explore the employers’ activities and frameworks used

· Examples of effective actions to include in action plans

· Key learnings from the case studies

· Activity: Identify possible controls for your workplace using the PSHoC

Topic 5: Develop a Psychosocial Intervention Plan that you can Start to Implement Immediately

· Learn about the action planning tool to bring back to your workplace

· Complete an action plan for hazards in your workplace

· Get tips and tricks on taking effective action

· Explore some of the barriers to success and how to ensure ongoing evaluation

· Activity: Share and receive feedback on your Action Plan