Respect At Work Interview with Karen Maher
The great resignation or the great reshuffle?
How a global pandemic shaped a new era for psychological health and safety at work The New Era As we enter 2022, we continue to navigate our way through the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic; one of the most significant events in modern history affecting individuals...
Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be
Author : Amy Zadow - Research Fellow in Organisational Psychology, University of South Australia What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening? Perhaps something urgent pops up, we are tidying up an issue from the day, or trying to get ahead for...
Is It Possible That Bushfires and COVID Can Actually Help Improve Wellbeing at Work?
One Australian study of worker psychological safety in public and private workplaces has proven that wellbeing can actually improve during turbulent times. Researchers from the University of South Australia and the Centre for Workplace Excellence found that worker wellbeing can improve during not only COVID, but bushfires too.
Top 7 Psychosocial Hazards Putting Your Workers’ Health at Risk
Psychosocial (psychological + social) hazards have a detrimental impact on worker mental and physical health. So how do we reduce the risk of these hazards occurring? And when we can’t get rid of them how do we minimise their impact on health? First, we need to understand them so let’s break them down.
Here are the top 7 psychosocial hazards that may be putting your worker’s health at risk:
Can I ‘Put Off’ running a risk assessment survey?
We all know that psychosocial risk needs to be identified and managed to prevent the harmful effects of work-related factors on staff health, workplace productivity and the bottom line, but organisations are still willing to ‘put off’ the risk assessment. The reasons...
Three Important questions that HR and WHS Professionals are now asking
While awareness of hazardous psychosocial factors such as excessive job demands, inadequate resources, bullying and harassment is widely known, Human Resource and Workplace Health and Safety professionals are starting to ask three very...
Creating a Climate for Psychological Health Protection
For over 40 years academic researchers in the field of workplace psychology have shown the link between mental health and work-related factors (e.g., job demands, job control, job resources). Internationally the nature of work has shifted away from physical demands towards more cognitively complex demands.