Learning and Development Guide 2025

UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS For Workers The latest WA Work Health and Safety Act 2020 highlights psychosocial hazards in the workplace that have the potential to impact a person’s mental health and feeling of being psychologically safe. This course, aimed directly at those at the worker level, seeks to provide the knowledge and behaviours to identify these potential hazards for themselves and others, and provide some options for addressing those hazards. The course will also clarify the responsibilities of workers to ensure that are also not creating an unsafe environment for their work colleagues. Why attend? • Define a psychologically safe workplace • Understand your responsibilities under the WHS laws • Identify psychosocial hazards • Create a relationship with your supervisor that allows you to speak up • Understand how to find out if you’re part of the problem and what you need to do • Plan what you will do first. Who should attend? Workers and individual contributors, without direct reports, who wish to learn more about how to identify and respond to psychosocial hazards in the workplace. Course details: ½ day 9.00am – 12.30pm

PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK For Directors, Officers, Leaders and Managers Much has been said and written about the addition of psychosocial risks and hazards in the latest WA Work Health and Safety Act 2020. But most managers, leaders and supervisors have not had a resource to help them translate the legislative changes into practical behaviours in the workplace – until now. This course provides a toolbox of knowledge, skills and resources on what Officers (including Directors) and those in leadership positions Must know, Should know and Could know to create a psychologically safe workplace. Why attend? • Define a psychologically safe workplace • Understand your responsibilities under the WHS laws • Identifying psychosocial hazards • Prepare a psychosocial risk matrix • Identify potential risk mitigation strategies • Measure psychological safety in teams • Create an environment that allows people to speak up • Understand how to talk to staff about mental health • How to find out if you’re part of the problem and what you need to do • Identify Governance Issues for Boards and Officers • Plan what you will do first. Who should attend? This course is for the influential people in organisations, from Officers through to those in leadership and management roles, who are highlighted in the new WHS legislation as having a key responsibility for creating

a safe workplace. Course details: 2 days

9.00am – 4.30pm

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