Psychosocial Safety Training helps employees and managers understand psychosocial hazards, recognise how they can arise at work and build practical skills for creating psychologically healthier and safer workplaces.

BetterWorkLife’s training focuses on real workplace situations and helps participants understand their role in recognising concerns, managing risks and supporting psychosocial safety.

Psychosocial hazards are aspects of work that may cause psychological or physical harm. Examples can include high job demands, low job control, poor support, lack of role clarity, poor organisational change management, bullying, harassment, conflict and violence or aggression.

Psychosocial hazards can occur individually or interact with each other, potentially increasing the level of risk.

Yes. Australian work health and safety frameworks require organisations to manage risks to psychological health and safety, including risks arising from psychosocial hazards.

Requirements vary between jurisdictions, so organisations should consider the WHS legislation, regulations, codes and guidance applying to their workplace.

Effective Psychosocial Risk Management Training should help managers understand psychosocial hazards, identify and assess risks, select appropriate controls and review whether those controls are effective.

BetterWorkLife’s manager training also explores work design, workload, support, role clarity, change, workplace relationships, consultation, documentation and escalation through realistic workplace scenarios.

The hierarchy of controls is an approach to managing workplace risk that prioritises eliminating hazards where reasonably practicable and, where elimination isn’t possible, minimising risk through effective controls.

For psychosocial risks, this means looking at the work itself and the sources of risk, rather than relying only on individual strategies such as resilience or wellbeing training.

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No. Mental Health Training generally builds awareness and skills around mental health, recognising concerns and accessing support.

Psychosocial Risk Training focuses on hazards arising from work and how organisations and managers identify, assess, control and review those risks.

Both can be valuable, but mental health awareness or resilience training does not replace an organisation’s responsibility to manage psychosocial hazards at their source.

Psychological safety generally refers to whether people feel able to speak up, ask questions, acknowledge mistakes, raise concerns and challenge ideas without fear of interpersonal consequences.

Psychosocial safety is broader and relates to protecting psychological health and safety by identifying and managing psychosocial hazards and risks arising from work.

They are related, but they are not the same thing.

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Managers and supervisors can play an important role in identifying and managing psychosocial risks because their decisions can influence workload, role clarity, support, change, communication and team functioning.

Psychosocial Risk Training for Managers helps people leaders recognise hazards, understand their responsibilities and make better decisions about prevention, controls, consultation, documentation and escalation.

Yes. BetterWorkLife tailors Psychosocial Safety Training to your organisation, industry, workforce and psychosocial risks.

Workplace scenarios and activities can reflect the situations your managers and employees actually encounter, making the training practical rather than theoretical.

Yes. BetterWorkLife delivers onsite Psychosocial Safety Training across Australia, as well as live online workshops for remote and geographically dispersed teams.

Workshops can be tailored to your workplace, audience and learning objectives.