E6 | Effectively managing psychosocial risks through the Great Resignation and the New Normal | Workshop 3 hrs
Tracks
Track E | Grand Ballroom 3
| Thursday, July 7, 2022 |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM |
| Grand Ballroom 3 |
Overview
In-person live
Presenter
Dr Tessa Bailey
Director
The Opus Centre For Psychosocial Risk
Effectively managing psychosocial risks through the Great Resignation and the New Normal
11:20 AM - 3:20 PMPromotional description
With increasing awareness of work-related psychosocial risks, employers are responding by becoming more active in protecting worker mental health and promoting wellbeing. Evaluation of these initiatives can help us understand what works in creating an organisational climate for psychological health and safety that will attract and retain skilled labour while optimising productivity outcomes.
A psychosocially safe work environment will have systems for protecting worker mental health including reasonable strategies for management of work-related psychosocial factors (e.g., job demands, job control, job resources) and practical supports for a person suffering ill-health symptoms due to external factors (e.g., life events, personal health). Each organisation is unique and will need to determine psychosocial risk management policy and practice for their own workplace taking into consideration aspects such as organisation size, types of psychosocial factors, existing expertise, and resources.
This workshop will guide employers through implementing psychosocial risk management processes within their own organisation. Drawing on applied practice experiences of Dr Tessa Bailey, Director and Principal Consultant at The OPUS Centre for Psychosocial Risk, participants will learn how to integrate psychosocial risk management systems that reduce risk to worker psychological health and promote wellbeing to attract and retain skilled labour in their industry.
A psychosocially safe work environment will have systems for protecting worker mental health including reasonable strategies for management of work-related psychosocial factors (e.g., job demands, job control, job resources) and practical supports for a person suffering ill-health symptoms due to external factors (e.g., life events, personal health). Each organisation is unique and will need to determine psychosocial risk management policy and practice for their own workplace taking into consideration aspects such as organisation size, types of psychosocial factors, existing expertise, and resources.
This workshop will guide employers through implementing psychosocial risk management processes within their own organisation. Drawing on applied practice experiences of Dr Tessa Bailey, Director and Principal Consultant at The OPUS Centre for Psychosocial Risk, participants will learn how to integrate psychosocial risk management systems that reduce risk to worker psychological health and promote wellbeing to attract and retain skilled labour in their industry.
Learning outcomes
- Identify psychosocial factors that have the potential to become a hazard within their own organisation
- Understand how Covid is changing the psychosocial risk profile in our workplaces
- Learn processes for assessing levels of psychosocial risk via formal or informal methods
- Utilise existing resources, tools, and guidance materials to meet legislative requirements and achieve best practice for protecting worker psychosocial health
- Develop evidence based psychosocial risk interventions using the psychosocial hierarchy of controls
- Evaluate interventions to understand what works best in their own organisation
- Understand how Covid is changing the psychosocial risk profile in our workplaces
- Learn processes for assessing levels of psychosocial risk via formal or informal methods
- Utilise existing resources, tools, and guidance materials to meet legislative requirements and achieve best practice for protecting worker psychosocial health
- Develop evidence based psychosocial risk interventions using the psychosocial hierarchy of controls
- Evaluate interventions to understand what works best in their own organisation
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Dr Tessa Bailey is a registered psychologist who completed her PhD focusing on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) and psychosocial factors at work, for which she received the 2019 Ian Davey Award for the most outstanding PhD thesis at the University of South Australia. She is the Director and Principal Consultant at The Opus Centre for Psychosocial Risk where she works with industry to implement workforce health and safety systems that protect worker psychological health and promote wellbeing while optimising organisational productivity outcomes.
