Using a hierarchy of controls to manage psychosocial risk

Revolutionaries of Wellbeing

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As your organisation becomes more mature in its approach to wellbeing, you may start using a more formal risk management methodology to address the psychosocial hazards in your workplace.

In the same way that you can use a risk-based approach to understand physical safety risks in your workplace, you can identify, assess and develop controls for psychosocial risks.

And, much the same as physical safety risks, not all controls are created equal.

Many of you will be familiar with the hierarchy of controls, which is a way of determining which actions will best control an exposure to harm.

But did you know that with a little adjustment, you can also apply the hierarchy of controls to psychosocial risks? Check out our psychosocial hierarchy of controls below: