Psychosocial risk management
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Fast-track your psychosocial hazard identification process with our free-to-download templates.
Risk matrix template
This risk matrix is based on two intersecting factors: the frequency and the duration of a risk. Use it to plot your individual hazards and visualise the impact of a potential risk from low, to extreme.
Risk assessment tools and resources
From employee survey questions to free guidelines and tools, we’ve gathered the most helpful resources that can assist you in this risk assessment step.
Our downloadable risk matrix and list of tools and resources will help you navigate the risk assessment process. Sonder’s VP of Member Support shares his tips on getting the most out of them.
Assessing the psychosocial risk
After you have identified psychosocial hazards within your organisation, the next step is to assess the associated risks.
In doing so, it’s important to consider the severity and likelihood of harm from exposure to these habits, as well as their frequency and duration, to help you build a complete picture.
Understanding the variance in risk
In this step of the process, you’ll need to invest the time to get into the details. The same hazards will have different impacts in different areas of your business.
Understanding these subtleties will set you up for success and help you build the most effective risk controls in step three.
"It's important to have an objective approach to assessing where psychosocial risk arises in an organisation from a data perspective rather than assuming where risks arise. From there, organisations need to apply a risk register using a systematic approach to wherever that risk arises, based on the data."
Katherine Morris
Health and Safety Specialist and Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright
The four steps to managing psychosocial risk
Sonder’s free-to-download tools and templates will help you identify, assess, and effectively control psychosocial risks. Use them to support your four-step process, and take proactive steps to support your employees’ psychological wellbeing.
Step one: Identify hazards
Understanding the risks that exist within your organisation is the first step towards managing them and creating a safer environment for your workers. This step often involves reviewing existing data and seeking new information, by talking and listening to your employees.
Step two: Assess risks
Once you have identified psychosocial hazards in your workplace, our risk matrix template will help you assess the risks they create. This will help you determine what is reasonably practicable in managing the risks.
Step three: Control risks
Once you know which psychosocial hazards are present and you have assessed the risks they create, you are in a position to control them. Try our control suggestion tool and examples to get you started.
Step four: Review control measures
If a control measure is not working effectively, it must be reviewed and modified or replaced. Our effectiveness matrix and question template will help you determine what’s working – and what should be modified.
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