Managing psychosocial hazards as a leader

Category: Managing psychosocial hazards
Audience: leader
Format: microlearn
Duration: 10 minutes

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

Course overview

Managing psychosocial hazards is a key part of a leader's health and safety obligations, and it also supports organisational performance and productivity. This short module guides leaders through the four-step hazard management process: identify the hazards, assess the risks, control the risks and review the controls. A case study shows how the steps work in practice, tests understanding and builds confidence, and highlights the importance of consulting your team at every step. It works well as a refresher, or as pre-learning before a workshop.

Learning outcomes

Recognise your specific obligations as a leader in preventing psychosocial hazards
Recognise the key benefits of managing psychosocial hazards
Use the four-step process to identify hazards, assess and control risks, and review the controls
Understand why consulting your team matters at each step

Compliance outcomes

Strengthen understanding of obligations relating to psychosocial hazards
Demonstrate proactive steps toward identifying and controlling psychosocial risk
Support due diligence requirements for leaders