NSWM 2024 week 2 - Psychosocial risks

Controlling psychosocial risks

In deciding how to control psychosocial risks, you must consider:

• the duration, frequency and severity of the exposure of workers and other persons to the psychosocial hazards
• how the psychosocial hazards may interact or combine. 

You must also consider the things you can change to control the risks of psychosocial hazards in your workplace including:

• the design of work, including job demands and tasks
• the systems of work, including how work is managed, organised and supported
• the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of the workplace and workers’ accommodation
• the plant, substances and structures at the workplace 
• workplace interactions or behaviours
• the information, training, instruction and supervision provided to workers.