Psychosocial risks - turn them to your advantage

Larsen Jensen and Bluestone HSE invite you to an innovative two day workshop which explores psychosocial hazards and risks in the workplace and the strategies, tools and techniques to turn psychosocial risk management into an opportunity.

Workplace psychosocial risk is like the silent scream of modern work life. It saps the strength of organisations and dwindles the potential of employees, yet it's often ignored or misunderstood.

- Anon.

Two Day Psychosocial Risks Workshop

To meet the growing business and legal challenges of managing psychosocial risk in the workplace, we need to shift our beliefs around what success looks like, and what we measure.

In addition, to bypass the pitfalls of compliance overload and box ticking, psychological wellbeing needs to be clearly addressed at an organisational and leadership level, not just at an individual level.

It's time for every organisation to recognise that mental health is as important as physical safety.

- Arianna Huffington

Shift The Paradigm

Optimising psychosocial risk management requires a paradigm shift in how we view people, responsibility and success:

  • People can’t be well and unwell at the same time.

  • Everyone has the capacity to be complete and show up mentally and emotionally fit for work.

  • It’s the environment that leads to the risk, so wellbeing needs to be defined at an organisational level, not just an individual level.

  • Everyone has an impact on the psychosocial ecosystem and needs to be involved.

Who Should Attend?

Health and Safety Professionals

Wellbeing Professionals

Senior Leaders and Managers

Project Directors &
Project Managers

All participants will have the opportunity to be part of a supportive network of like-minded peers who are developing their own strategies and systems to manage psychosocial hazards and risks in the workplace.

Create Your Own Blueprint

As well as discussing the legislative requirements of identifying, assessing and managing psychosocial risk, you will discover:

  • Three beliefs that underpin a positive psychosocial wellbeing culture.

  • Three principles of how we design work and workplaces that apply to every hazard, project, initiative, and team interaction.

  • The specific roles required at an organisational, leader, and team member level to build this culture.

  • A customised blueprint of how to integrate the beliefs, principles and roles and apply them to turn psychosocial hazards into business opportunities.

NOTE: Your workshop registration fee includes a one hour ‘learning pod’ to be held four weeks after the workshop to share and discuss insights, wins, and ongoing challenges.

Workplaces don't always have to be a source of stress, but instead can be a buffer against it.

- Leslie Hammer

Immersive Experience

The program will be an immersive experience with sessions aimed at deepening your understanding of the concepts and ideas being presented. The workshop will include:

  • Case Studies: Analyse the success of companies that have proven strategies to effectively manage psychosocial risks.

  • Lessons Learnt: Assess the lessons learnt from early movers in the space, including both successful and unsuccessful psychosocial risk management strategies.

  • Practical Tools: Introduce strategies and tools that shift the theory into practice and allow you to hit the ground running in addressing psychosocial risks.

  • Group Activities: Expect a healthy exchange of ideas, followed up by problem-solving scenarios and engaging activities aimed at embedding the fundamental concepts introduced throughout the program.

Our work lives pull so much from us, but health should never be one of the compromised.

- Emma Seppälä.

Program Outcomes

  • Define your organisation’s psychosocial wellbeing beliefs and measures.

  • Foster personal ownership and contribution.

  • Build a Psychosocial Risk and Opportunity Register.

  • Engage your organisation at all levels and create alignment.

  • Set your teams up for psychosocial wellbeing success.

  • Create meaningful appreciation initiatives.

  • Create a workplace environment of psychological safety.

  • Manage your own wellbeing.

In House Sessions

Contact us via our Contact page if you are interested in discussing either a one day introduction to psychosocial risks for your business, or running a two day workshop which explores your specific business related issues more fully.

One Day
Introduction

8 hours

Onsite / Offsite or Online

Minimum of 8 people

Two Day
Workshop

2 consecutive days

Onsite or Offsite

Minimum of 8 people

If the workshop is held offsite, we can arrange the venue and catering.

About Your Presenters

Pete Jensen

Pete has a burning passion to help business leaders create organisations that are great places to work in, where employees feel psychologically safe, fit and thriving. He is an internationally published author, and has been working in the culture transformation space well before the current demands surfaced.

Over the past 15 years he has worked with over 20,000 participants across the Asia Pacific delivering leadership development, culture transformation, behavioural safety leadership and enabling wellbeing masterclasses and programs.

Pete’s vision is to help shift organisational focus from a deficit mindset of trying to manage unwanted events and behaviour, to one of creating the presence of positives, thereby establishing a competitive edge of connection, productivity, performance, and improving quality of life.

Pete’s  unique edge lies in his ability to create meaning, awareness, conviction and inspiration for leaders and employees at all levels of the organisation. 

Rod Cameron

Rod is a health, safety and environment professional with over 30 years experience in heavy industry.  Rod’s depth of operational experience spans industries as diverse as mining, construction, electricity, rail and healthcare. 

More recently (in the past 7 years) Rod has assisted numerous businesses to adopt, embed and sustain the safety II approach to improving safety culture and outcomes.  He has been embedded in businesses during these culture change programs and has facilitated over 30 frontline learning teams across Australia and New Zealand, each aimed at resolving issues or leveraging opportunities to deliver real outcomes at the frontline.

Rod is a facilitator that gets participants thinking.  His priority is to deliver content and land new concepts in a way that is easily understood.  He focusses on practical tools and approaches to implementation that can be taken back and immediately applied in the workplace.