Managing psychosocial hazards helps employers maintain safe and healthy workplaces. Employers have a duty to ensure health and safety at work, including the psychological health of workers, so far as is reasonably practicable. Comcare’s Psychosocial Inspection Program supports employers to comply with work health and safety obligations and to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses.
This program is based on a successful pilot conducted in 2023 and 2024, Findings of the pilot indicated that it improved employers’ knowledge of psychosocial hazards and increased their commitment to workplace psychological health and safety.
As part of this inspection program Comcare will:
- review the employer’s systems for managing psychosocial hazards and risks
- meet with senior executives, human resources and work health and safety team, workers and health and safety representatives (if applicable)
- assess compliance with work health and safety laws and regulations
- report to the employer on its strengths, opportunities for improvement and any non-compliance.
Employers in the Comcare jurisdiction can also ask to take part in the inspection program by emailing [email protected].
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