Worker’s compensation claims for psychological injury are on the rise, worker exodus is increasing & businesses are often left scratching their heads as to how to understand & address their Psychosocial Risk. Employ Health has utilized research from the working landscape across the country to bring psychosocial risk assessments into our service offering.

Expert risk managers

In-depth hazard analysis

Tailored reports

What Is A Psychosocial Risk Assessment?

A Psychosocial Risk Assessment involves the screening of tasks, environments and the workplace itself for underlying psychosocial risk. Employ Health uses evidence-based, validated screening tools to capture this risk and report back to the business in real-time. These assessments lay the foundation for controls and interventions to create a mentally safe workplace.

Employ Health uses two key tools: The People at Work assessment & the APHIRM (Participative Hazard Identification and Risk Management) toolkit. The People at Work assessment is Australia’s only validated psychosocial risk assessment survey. The survey assesses the most common psychosocial risks within your business and identifies and controls risks to psychological health at work. The APHIRM toolkit builds upon evidence-based workplace risk assessments by assessing not only the manual risk of a job but also the psychosocial risk.

Psychosocial Risk Factors At Work

  • Group task conflict
  • Emotional demands
  • Role conflict, overload & ambiguity
  • Group relationship conflict
  • Cognitive demand
Benefits of Managing Psychosocial Hazards In The Workplace

Improve workplace culture

Much like physical risk, identifying psychosocial risk allows you to put in place controls that mitigate their effects.

Compliance

WHS Laws require that employers manage risks from hazards, including work-related psychosocial hazards.

Employer of choice

Many workplaces aspire to be a place that people love to be a part of. Having a mentally healthy workplace is a bedrock of becoming an Employer of Choice.

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Why Employ Health?

Class leaders in risk management

At Employ Health, we pride ourselves on managing risk through our Worker, Work & Workplace paradigm. We utilize the latest evidence-based toolkits along with our real-time Data Management System to assess & deliver assessments across all areas of your business

Commitment to culture

We firmly believe that to become an Employer of Choice, you need to drive your systems & processes towards cultural improvement. Having a mentally safe workplace allows businesses to cultivate better relationships between workers, supervisors & managers.

Integrated systems

Great data is only as great as the controls that follow. At Employ Health, we pride ourselves on our involvement in the controls through integrating our Health Hub services into the process. From developing supportive & capable leaders through training to nationwide risk & cultural engagement initiatives, we leverage the power of our data to enact widespread solutions for business.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Poor supervisor/manager support
  • Poor co-worker support
  • Lack of job controls
  • Poor follow through on procedural justice
  • Lack of change consultation
  • Low praise & recognition

While having Mental Health First Aid Trainers is a boon to creating a mentally safe workplace, training is not essential in fostering this environment.

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