Psychosocial Hazards and Your Positive Duty
PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS AND YOUR POSITIVE DUTY
Upcoming: Wednesday 16 October 2024
Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm (AEST)
A program designed to help you manage psychosocial hazards in the workplace
Delivery: Online
Course Overview
The Psychosocial Hazards and Your Positive Duty Workshop is designed for Directors, Board Members, Senior Executives and HR Leaders to help them identify what psychosocial hazards are in the workplace, and methods to address and reduce the potential harm to employees. Delivered by highly experienced facilitators in an online classroom, this workshop offers an interactive learning environment that will equip participants with practical skills and knowledge to be able to better identify and manage psychosocial hazards. The workshop provides participants with the opportunity to engage in case studies and group activities to deepen their understanding of how psychosocial hazards show up in the work environment, including recent case law examples to reinforce the significance of the learning material.
Workshop Learning Outcomes
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Understand the importance of mental health and how poor mental health contributes to psychosocial hazards
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Understand the changes to the Fair Work Act, Respect at Work Act and how these changes create a positive duty
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Explore the Safe Work Australia Code of Practice
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Understand the Human Rights Commission (HRC) guiding principle and the seven standards
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Learn about psychosocial hazards and how to manage them
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Learn about the benefits of creating psychologically safe workplaces
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Learn about psychosocial hazards and the law, including taking a risk management approach
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Better understand workplace bullying and how to manage your positive duty in bullying prevention
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Understand industrial manslaughter and how this can apply in cases where psychosocial hazards are not appropriately managed
Who should attend
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DIRECTORS AND BOARD MEMBERS
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SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND OFFICIALS
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HR LEADERS
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MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS
Workshop Learning Outcomes
UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS AND POSITIVE DUTY
The workshop will be delivered online.
Participants can join from the comfort of their own working environment. To enhance the learning experience, workshop numbers will be kept to a maximum of 16 participants.
Participants should join each workshop prepared to interact with other participants, as some case studies and group work enables them to share and gain unique insights into how psychosocial hazards are managed in other organisations.
A positive duty is a legal obligation for all employers to take proactive and meaningful action to prevent relevant unlawful conduct from occurring in the workplace or in connection to work. This means that leaders need to ensure they are at the forefront of best practice to protect their business and its employees.
A psychosocial hazard in the context of the workplace refers to any aspect of work that can potentially cause psychological or physical harm due to stress. Some common examples that can lead to psychosocial hazards are poor workplace relationships, sexual harassment, bullying, inappropriate job design and inadequate change management.
WORKSHOP MODULES
Each workshop is tailored to participants to make the learning experience contextual, relevant and valuable.
The following modules will be covered in each workshop:
Statistics and prevalence of mental health in Australia
Changes to the Fair Work Act and Respect @ Work Act
Codes of Practice: Safe Work Australia assist in managing positive duty, including exploring bystander effect and vicarious liability.
Understanding the Human Rights Commission (HRC) guiding principle and seven standards
Creating psychologically safe teams and work environments
Psychosocial hazards - how do they show up in the workplace?
Psychosocial hazards and the law
Risk management approach to psychosocial hazards as a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU)
Application of psychological concept the Yerkes-Dodson Law
Breaking down psychosocial hazards
Understanding and managing the psychosocial hazard of workplace bullying
WORKSHOP RESOURCES
Once registered, participants have access to the Psychosocial Hazards and Your Positive Duty Workshop online learning portal. This portal enables participants to connect with others in the workshop and access exclusive resources.
Participants are encouraged to download and read a copy of our FREE guide before attending the workshop.
Meet your facilitator
Linda Davey
SENIOR HR CONSULTANT AT HUMANIFY HR CONSULTING
Linda delivers this course drawing on her extensive real-world experience and technical expertise in senior HRM roles and workplace mental health. Linda has over 20 year’s HRM consulting and business partnering experience working across private industry, not-for-profit and government sectors including local Councils. Linda is an Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Certified Practitioner in HR (CPHR) and AHRI mentor and holds a post graduate degree in HRM. Linda also has accreditation in Human Synergistics lifestyles and organisational culture inventory (LSI/OCI) and IECL Organisational/Leadership coaching, along with being Mental Health First Aid trained.
The Psychosocial Hazards and Your Positive Duty Workshop is designed for Directors, Board Members, Senior Executives and HR Leaders to help them identify what psychosocial hazards are in the workplace, and methods to address and reduce the potential harm to employees and the organisation.
Still have Questions?
Please contact our team with any questions you have about this workshop.
Are you ready to equip yourself with the skills to better manage psychosocial hazards?
Psychosocial hazards can be tricky, but they don’t have to be. We’ve designed this course to help support leaders with the practical skills they need to protect their people and workplaces from the harm of psychosocial hazards.