Work Health and Safety (Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work) Code of Practice 2024
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A PCBU must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, workers and other persons are not exposed to risks to their psychological or physical health and safety. A PCBU must eliminate psychosocial risks in the workplace, or if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise these risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
A PCBU must manage psychosocial risks in accordance with Part 3.1 of the WHS Regulations.
Under the WHS Regulations, to manage psychosocial risks, a duty holder must:
\- identify reasonably foreseeable hazards that could give rise to psychosocial risks
\- eliminate risks, so far as is reasonably practicable
\- if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risks – minimise the risks so far as is reasonably practicable
\- maintain implemented control measures so they remain effective, and
\- review, and if necessary, revise, control measures so as to maintain, so far as is reasonably practicable, a work environment that is without risks to health and safety.
In determining control measures to be implemented, a PCBU must have regard to all relevant matters, including:
\- the duration, frequency and severity of the exposure of workers and other persons to the psychosocial hazards
\- how the psychosocial hazards may interact or combine
\- the design of work, including job demands and tasks
\- the systems of work, including how work is managed, organised and supported
\- the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of the workplace, including the provision of:
o safe means of entering and exiting the workplace
o facilities for the welfare of workers
\- the design and layout and environmental conditions of workers’ accommodation
\- the plant, substances and structures at the workplace
\- workplace interactions or behaviours, and
\- the information, training, instruction and supervision provided to workers.
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