PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS SELF-ASSESSMENT

Psychosocial risk is a regulatory priority and a board level liability. Do you know where your organisation stands?

Take our 5-minute pulse check to see how your organisation stacks up across key compliance areas. Built by Source’s workplace legal, safety and HR practitioners.

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Your legal exposure has increased. Has your organisation kept up?

Psychosocial hazards are aspects of work that have the potential to cause psychological or physical harm. This includes workload, bullying and harassment, poor role clarity, organisational change, exposure to trauma and more. Psychosocial risk management is a governance and board issue, not an HR nicety.

Since 1 July 2026, the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice has been an enforceable benchmark for NSW duty holders, and every state and territory now has similar and express obligations.

The Code provides a benchmark for compliance. Either follow the baseline, choose an alternative that meets or exceeds it, or demonstrate the effectiveness of your approach.

Regulators don’t need to wait for someone to be harmed. Inspectors can spot and act on failures in your safety systems long before an accident happens. Training can help, but it doesn’t fix poor work design. Know the difference before a regulator points it out for you.

This pulse check shows you, in 5 minutes, where you are strong, where you are exposed, and what to do next.

Psychosocial claims are the fastest-growing category in the country.

A psychological injury keeps someone away from work far longer than a physical one. Longer absences mean larger claims, that most often trace back to how work was designed and managed. These claims can can be prevented.

12%

mental health related

claims of all serious workers’ compensation claims

14.7%

increase

over the past year

161%

increase

over the past decade

Almost 5x

median time lost

compared with other injuries and diseases

Safe Work Australia, Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2025.

Compliance doesn't start and end with a policy and some training

Are you concerned that…

You created a policy from a template that nobody opened since.
Hazard registers are outdated or not even put in place.
A restructure happened without any proactive psychosocial risk management.
Your organisation's safety function is not properly resourced.
Board members and executives haven't been trained on their obligations and due diligence.

These are all issues the regulator will look at and can create exposure in your business.

Psychosocial risk is only one part of work health and safety.

Source supports clients across the entire workplace safety lifecycle, from policy reviews and compliance advice to pre-litigation disputes. That breadth of expertise means if a matter escalates, it doesn’t need to be rebriefed to another firm, saving time, cost and unnecessary disruption.

Everyday safety support

The safety dimension of your current work. Preventative, process-driven, and handled as part of our standard engagements.

Safety-related policy review and drafting
Manager and workforce WHS training
Terminations and restructures with a safety dimension
Managing ill and injured employees, and fitness for work
Misconduct with a psychosocial or mental health overlay

Frameworks and assurance

Auditing, building and testing your safety system before a regulator, an insurer or a tender asks to see it.

Psychosocial risk audits and framework design
Safety management system reviews
Workplace investigations, including sexual harassment, under legal professional privilege
Contractor and principal contractor compliance reviews
Officer due diligence briefings for boards and executives

Incidents and enforcement

When a safety issue occurs and you need legal representation we deliver this with our litigation partner, Hamilton Locke.

Serious incident response, where the first 24 to 72 hours are critical
Regulator investigations and enforcement action
WHS prosecutions and defended hearings
Industrial manslaughter matters
Complex workers compensation litigation

Why businesses choose Source to handle their workplace health and safety

Safety doesn't exist in isolation. Neither should your advice.

A safety issue in one part of the business can be shaped by decisions made somewhere else.

The way work is designed. How people are managed. A restructure. Contractor arrangements. Source provides holistic workplace legal, safety and HR support so you receive advice that takes all of your circumstances into consideration.

Practical expertise. Commercial perspective.

Confidence for your executives and Board that the business is managing safety as part of the bigger picture, not issue by issue.

We look beyond the individual issue.

Source brings together safety, legal and HR expertise to see the broader enterprise picture, connect the issues and provide advice that is consistent across decisions, teams and strategy.

Hear insights from our WHS experts

Understanding and managing psychosocial hazards

This session is designed for those building or pressure-testing psychosocial risk frameworks.

Managing psychosocial risk during change, restructures and redundancies

This session is designed for those going through a restructure, redundancy round or with other workplace change on the horizon.

Workers' compensation claims for psychological injuries

This session is designed for those who are managing, or about to manage, a psychological injury claim.

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