S10 E03: Predicting Risk: Why Psychosocial Safety Needs a New Playbook
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The episode discusses the evolution of psychosocial risk management and the need for a new approach in the rapidly changing occupational landscape.
Season 10 Episode 03: Predicting Risk: Why Psychosocial Safety Needs a New Playbook WARNING: This episode refers to sexual harassment and occupational psychosocial risks – we advise listener discretion. Meep-meep. The roadrunner—an analogy for the rapidly changing occupational sociocultural landscape. What happens when psychosocial risk management, industrial relations, human rights, and WHS law intersect? In this episode, Alan Girle, Trajce Cvetkovski, and Sara Pazell explore the evolution of psychosocial risk management—from the decommissioning of PAWS to the development of PRAiSE (Psychosocial Risk Assessment and Integrated Solutions for Employers) and the PRA (Psychosocial Risk Analyser) feature in ErgoAnalyst, an integrated task-based risk assessment and work re-design decision support software system. The discussion examines survey bias, the challenges of measuring psychosocial risk, acute versus cumulative exposures, predictive analytics, and the shift from lag indicators to leading indicators. This is a practical discussion about moving beyond compliance to build organisational capability to design better, healthier, productive work. Along the way, the team reflect on…
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