Managing psychosocial hazards as a leader

Addressing psychosocial hazards is not only a key part of your health and safety obligations as a leader, it helps improve organisational performance and productivity. This learning bite, ideally for use as a refresher or workshop prelearn, guides leaders through the four-step hazard management process aimed at identifying the hazards, assessing the risks, controlling the risks and reviewing the controls. A case study is used to demonstrate how the steps can be applied, giving the opportunity to test understanding and instil confidence and readiness, while highlighting the importance of consulting with team members at each step of the process.

This microlearn will help leaders to:

• recognise their specific obligations in relation to psychosocial hazard prevention
• recognise the key benefits of managing psychosocial hazards
• identify ways to identify, assess and mitigate hazards using the four-step risk management process