Category Archives: safety

I’m often told by Boards that they struggle with psychosocial risk management. It’s complex and messy. It overlaps into multiple areas and can be difficult to get a handle on. “Where do I start?” “How can I tell if something is an effective control?” “What should I look for?” So, we’ve published a short guideContinue reading “Psychosocial Risk Governance – FREE Guide”

The subscriber only launch discount for our Psychosocial Risk Management guide and toolkit finishes soon. Don’t miss the chance to get this toolkit packed with useful information, guidance and (obviously) tools for less than the travel expenses to get someone to come and talk to you about it. More info on the discount here

There is a lot to think about when we get into the world of psychosocial risks. It is highly complex, with many factors to consider. Those of you wrestling with this will recognise that as a great candidate for understatement of the year! One of the core ideas that runs throughout our new guide andContinue reading “Safe and Sustainable Conditions Model”

There are numerous different frameworks and approaches within our new Effective Psychosocial Risk Management Guide as you can see in the picture above. These combine across the 10 steps and the supporting tools to bring a total system view that is fully coherent, with all the parts working together for better outcomes. We will alsoContinue reading “Psychosocial Risk Management Frameworks”

There has been a lot of angst over here in New Zealand about proposed changes to the primary H&S legislation. Much has been written about the pros and cons of the changes (largely cons) and I’m not going to repeat that here. There is an issue, though, that maybe we have not been quite introspectiveContinue reading “Only Ourselves to Blame”

Psychosocial Risks The most common question I have had over the last 18 months when working with boards and executives is how they should manage psychosocial risks. I always tell them that it is a separate discipline and to treat it with the respect it deserves by bringing in specialists with the requisite know-how. ButContinue reading “Effective Psychosocial Risk Management”

There has been quite a lot of discussion recently (on LinkedIn particularly) about some stuff that I thought we’d mostly kind of moved on from – zero harm, counting injury metrics and the like. I would like to believe we are a bit more sophisticated than that and when somebody threw one of my quotesContinue reading “Think Harder”

The Pike River movie launches today. I haven’t seen any previews and have no current plans to go and see it yet, but it got me thinking a little about how (if at all) we have progressed in our approach to health and safety here in New Zealand since the disaster. Short answer – inContinue reading “Pike River (again)”