Psychosocial risk management
Step three: How to control psychosocial risks
By implementing best practice risk controls, organisations can safeguard themselves against enforcement actions and proactively foster a safe, supportive and healthy workforce. Check out our risk control examples and interactive control effectiveness estimator to help you with this step.
The four steps to managing psychosocial risk
Implementing proactive risk controls
With recent changes in legislation, it is no longer acceptable to be simply reacting to workplace incidents and identified hazards.
Wherever possible, you should eliminate the risk. If this is not possible, focus on implementing proactive control measures that'll help you get ahead of psychosocial risks.
Tailoring risk controls to your industry
While you'll find some handy examples below, tailoring your risk control strategies to your specific industry, and needs of employees, will give you the best chance to improve control effectiveness - and demonstrate the businesses commitment to employee wellbeing.
Try out our free tool below to help you estimate how effective your control measures might be.
"It is very important that an organisation understands the effectiveness of their controls because, from a legal point of view, it is part of demonstrating satisfaction of their duties and it is required by regulators."
Katherine Morris
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Control effectiveness estimator
If you want to estimate the effectiveness of your controls, try out our interactive tool. It's designed to help you with this all-important step of the psychosocial risk management process.
Risk control examples
These hypothetical examples show which kind of risk controls might be put in place to manage five common psychosocial hazards.
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