The non-physical hazards of firefighting may be easily overlooked given the clearly more obvious physical risks these workers face. Less obvious, but no less deleterious, are issues such as stress, fatigue, and psychological trauma. In fact, it has been suggested that job-related deaths in this...
After identifying common potential psychosocial hazards across the Group – which include sexual harassment and assault; bullying; discrimination; fatigue and burnout; and workplace relations – our Australia region conducted an initial workshop in 2023 and developed risk assessment tools, which will even...
Psychosocial hazards (and associated risks) are defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO, 1986) in terms of the interactions among job content, work organisation and management, and other environmental and organisational conditions, on the one hand, and the employees’ competencies and ...
As new global standards and local regulations urge leaders to adopt a risk-management approach in addressing psychosocial hazards, the prevailing question is increasingly this: Is this the most effective route to supporting workplace well-being? After a year of close collabo...
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employers to ensure the psychosocial safety of their teams. Countries including Canada, the European Union, Mexico, Chile, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Colombia have passed legislation that directs organizations to identify, eliminate...
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On 19 October 2023, the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court fined Court Services Victoria (CSV) nearly $380,000 in relation to a toxic workplace culture and a range of psychosocial hazards that contributed to the suicide death of an employee lawyer at the Coro
The effects of psychosocial risk factors on population health and health inequalities has featured prominently in epidemiological research literature as well as public health policy strategies. We have conducted a meta-review (a review of reviews) explor
In addition, to test Hypothesis 4, we controlled for T1 physical hazards in an attempt to predict future work environments from prior work environments. We selected into this analysis workers from within the same organisation six years later (n = 269). The outcome was on an interval scale (...