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Managing Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace: Why a Policy Alone Won’t Protect You

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What’s the real issue?  Having a psychosocial health and safety policy is not the same as managing psychosocial risk and regulators increasingly treat the gap as a breach. The most common mistake we see is treating this as an HR document rather than a WHS obligation owned by senior leadership exactly the “Band-Aid solution” the Model Code of Practice warns against.  A

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When HR Decisions Become WHS Risks: Managing the Intersection Between Psychosocial Safety Law and Employment Law

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Performance-manage an underperformer, restructure a team or investigate a bullying complaint, and you are no longer working within employment law alone. That decision now sits inside your work health and safety duty — and a process that is perfectly lawful under the Fair Work Act can still expose you under WHS legislation.  The answer is not to

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Everything About Work Is Moving at Once. That’s HR’s Moment to Lead

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I was recently named one of the 50 Essential Thought Leaders in Human Resources in Australia and New Zealand — a list that deliberately set out to recognise practitioners shaping the regional conversation on the future of work, people strategy and the profession itself.  I’m proud of that. But recognition isn’t the point. What it

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