Psychosocial hazards at work
Parts of work that can harm mental health, and physical health too.
Common hazards
Safe Work Australia's model Code of Practice, Managing psychosocial hazards at work (2022), lists common hazards. They include:
- High or low job demands
- Low job control
- Poor support
- Lack of role clarity
- Poor change management
- Poor workplace relationships and conflict
- Bullying
- Harassment, including sexual harassment
- Violence and aggression
- Traumatic events or material
- Remote or isolated work
- Poor physical environment
What you need to do
Treat these hazards like any other safety risk. Find them. Assess the risk. Put controls in place. Then check that the controls work.
How we help
We run psychosocial risk assessments. We talk to staff, not just survey them.