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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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