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This is the eleventh article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Governance establishes the accountability, oversight and decision-making architecture on which effective psychosocial safety depends.
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This is the eleventh article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Governance establishes the accountability, oversight and decision-making architecture on which effective psychosocial safety depends.
This is the tenth article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Organisations are not governed through individual initiatives. They are governed through operating models. Psychosocial safety, until now, has not had one.
This is the ninth article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Most organisations are not underinvesting in psychosocial safety. They are investing without an operating model capable of connecting that activity across the enterprise.
Workplace mental health is not a problem on the horizon. It is a crisis already underway, and the data is unambiguous. Safe Work Australia recorded 17,600 serious mental health compensation claims in 2023-24, the highest proportion ever recorded...
This is the eighth article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Organisations that would never let a critical physical control go unowned, unmeasured or unverified often govern psychosocial risk through wellbeing programs instead. The evidence shows the two are not separate risks running in parallel — psychosocial risk is a leading indicator of physical incident risk.
This is the seventh article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. Statutory duties, codes of practice, regulator guidance and the positive duty now establish clear expectations. What they do not provide is an integrated executive governance model for consistently translating those expectations into practice.
Safety teams deliver psychosocial hazards training. HR leads Respect at Work. DEI teams run inclusive leadership. Each may be valuable in isolation, but delivered separately they leave leaders to connect the dots themselves. The problem is not a lack of training — it is a lack of integration. How three foundations of a high-performing workplace can be built through one connected leadership pathway.
This is the sixth article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. While no Australian officer has yet been prosecuted for failing to exercise due diligence over psychosocial risk, section 27 of the model WHS Act provides the statutory basis. Directors and executives should examine whether the evidence required to discharge the duty would withstand regulatory scrutiny.
This is the fifth article in a weekly series on psychosocial hazard management in Australia. In December 2025 the Department of Defence was convicted and fined $188,000 — the first conviction of a Commonwealth employer for failing to manage psychosocial risks. The case exposed the gap between documented policy and the manager capability required to operate controls when psychosocial risk emerges during performance management.
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