Supercharging Your Psychosocial Safety Risk Register
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Release Date: 03/04/2025
Leading Human-Centered Psychosocial Safety Changes
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Addressing psychosocial safety requirements often creates additional change and potential stress in organizations. This episode explores how to implement safety initiatives without creating the very risks you're trying to prevent. We share practical approaches that reduce overwhelm, build genuine psychological safety, and transform defensive reactions into productive conversations. Discover simple language frameworks and team activities that help normalize uncertainty while maintaining momentum, even during complex organizational transitions. 0:00:35 Katie explains how addressing psychosocial...
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The Nervous System Toolkit For Psychosocial Safety
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Do your people need more tangible skills to manage their own emotional and social responses at work? This episode explores evidence-based tools to help people understand their nervous system responses—whether they're in the "red zone" (urgency), "blue zone" (withdrawal), or "green zone" (connection)—and offers simple techniques like oxytocin shots and bridge-building that restore safety even during challenging moments. 0:00:35 Katie and Chelle breakdown the responsibilties of employees and contractors for psychosocial safety. 0:07:25 Chelle explains how we can build psychological safety...
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Building Psychological Safety Between Leaders & Teams
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Studies consistently find that psychological safety reduces workplace hazards. In this episode, we explore concrete ways to strengthen safety at the "We” level (leaders and teams). We break down our Psychosocial Safety Lego Challenge that transforms abstract concepts into tangible team experiences, discover dynamic techniques to improve role clarity, and help team members find meaning during difficult organizational changes. 0:00:38 Katie and Chelle breakdown the responsibilties of leaders for psychosocial safety. 0:03:31 Chelle explains why psychological safety has consistently been found...
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Supercharging Your Psychosocial Safety Risk Register
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Need to meet organizational psychosocial safety requirements without just ticking boxes? Join us as we explore how OH&S, HR, and wellbeing teams can collaborate on creating risk registers that drive real change. We share practical examples from organizations that have turned compliance into opportunity, engaging leaders and teams in meaningful safety conversations. Discover strategies that not only satisfy regulations but genuinely improve workplace wellbeing. 0:00:59 Katie shares the psychosocial safety responsibilities that must now be met by workplaces in Australia. 0:04:00 Chelle and...
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What Boards & CEOs Need To Know About Psychosocial Safety
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
Boards and CEOs are still learning how to meet psychosocial safety requirements in a way that is both practical and effective. Uncertainty around roles and responsibilities can lead to fragmented efforts and increased risk. This episode explores how HR, OH&S, and wellbeing teams can align their efforts to create workplaces that are both legally compliant and genuinely supportive of employee wellbeing. 0:00:55 Chelle and Katie share the recent concerns of boards and CEOs when it comes to implementing psychosocial safety requirements in their workplaces. 0:03:08 Chelle and Katie explore...
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Addressing Inadequate Reward & Recognition
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
At our core, we all have the same basic psychological needs for respect, value, and appreciation. Yet, the diversity in how, when, and where we would like these needs to be met can make the task of ensuring adequate rewards and recognition challenging. But regular informal feedback and formal development reviews can make all the difference. Find out how. [00:38] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing inadequate reward and recognition in their workplaces.\ [1.18] Paige and Michelle explore why lack of reward and recognition...
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Improving Low Job Control
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
We all have certain tasks we dread at work. Unfortunately, doing well in our jobs often hinges on our ability to handle these mundane tasks as proficiently as the more interesting ones. Despite our best efforts to make work more engaging, low job control can make tasks more tedious than they need to be, but five simple job crafting questions give us more freedom? [00:39] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing low job control in their workplaces. [2:34] Paige and Michelle explore why lack of job control isn’t just about...
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Minimizing Lack of Role Clarity
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
When it comes to completing our work, we all want to do well. Succeeding, however, depends on us having a clear set of expectations and measurable outcomes that deliver value for our team, clients, and organization. Despite clear communication, the complex and dynamic nature of our work can result in a lack of role clarity, but could a dynamic job description template could deliver the flexibility we need? [00:40] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing lack of role clarity in their workplaces. [03:10] Paige shares why role clarity...
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Navigating Unachievable Job Demands
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
A never-ending to-do list with no breaks in sight, a lack of the right training and support, and long, irregular, and unpredictable working hours can leave people feeling anxious and overwhelmed. The risk of unachievable job demands can be hard to navigate, but what if a simple job demands journal made it easier to see and prioritize? You'll learn: [00:15] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings about how frequently workers report experiencing unachievable jobs demands in their workplaces. [03:00] Michelle shares why the hazard of unachievable job demands is more than just...
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How are workplaces practically supercharging safety, wellbeing & performance?
Making Leadership Work - Fostering Psychosocial Safety at Work.
In this bonus episode of Making Leadership Work, Dr. Paige Williams and Dr. Michelle McQuaid share their ‘ah-ha’ moments from their research with more than 1,000 Australian workers, on their levels of burnout, psychosocial hazards, and psychological safety and how this is impacting safety, wellbeing and performance in their workplaces. You'll learn: [00:39] Michelle and Paige discuss the research findings that suggest two-thirds of Australian workers are experiencing burnout. [07:01] Michelle and Paige discuss how burnout is having an impact on psychosocial hazards. [11:44] Paige shares...
info_outlineNeed to meet organizational psychosocial safety requirements without just ticking boxes? Join us as we explore how OH&S, HR, and wellbeing teams can collaborate on creating risk registers that drive real change. We share practical examples from organizations that have turned compliance into opportunity, engaging leaders and teams in meaningful safety conversations. Discover strategies that not only satisfy regulations but genuinely improve workplace wellbeing.
0:00:59 Katie shares the psychosocial safety responsibilities that must now be met by workplaces in Australia.
0:04:00 Chelle and Katie explore who "owns" creating and maintaining the psychosocial safety risk register in most workplaces.
0:07:02 Chelle shares the example of how the wellbeing champions at a non-profit organization used the PERMAH wellbeing survey tool to measure psychosocial risks and debrief the results with leaders to co-create the risk register.
0:14:12 Chelle shares an example of how the OH&S and HR team at a local council use a survey insights, leadership workshop, a reporting template to co-create their risk register over a few hours.
0:18:22 Chelle shares an example of how OH&S, HR and wellbeing teams came together at a large construction company to help leaders and their team members co-create their risk register together during a practical workshop.
0:23:10 Chelle shares an example of how OH&S, HR, wellbeing, and legal teams came together a national energy company to design a Stop For Safety week for leaders to spend one hour with their teams identifying risks, co-creating controls, and reporting their insights and commitments for the risk register.