Psychological Safety

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Psychological Safety - Recording

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Training & Consulting

Need help creating psychological safety in your workplace? Mindarma provides tailored expert training and consulting. Equip your team with an understanding of the psychosocial risk management process, their duty of care and the practical actions they can take to create a climate of psychosocial safety. To find out more please contact us via info@mindarma.com

Resources

Key Work Health and Safety (WHS) Statistics Australia 2025 (Safe Work Australia)
Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) Strategy 2023 – 2033 (Safe Work Australia)
National Workplace Initiative (2024): Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces.
Mental Health and The Workplace:Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) (2022)
Designing Work to Manage Psychosocial Risk(SafeWork NSW Guide 2024)
Principles of Good Work Design: A Work Health and Safety Handbook (Safe Work Australia)

Codes of Practice in Australia for managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace

Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
ACT
Tasmania
South Australia | South Australia has adopted Safe Work Australia’s Model Code of Practice
Western Australia
Northern Territory

Research

Dollard, M. F., Loh, M. Y., & Potter, R. (2024). Psychosocial safety climate. In Elgar encyclopedia of occupational health psychology (pp. 157–160). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Amoadu, M., Ansah, E. W., & Sarfo, J. O. (2024). Preventing workplace mistreatment and improving workers’ mental health: A scoping review of the impact of psychosocial safety climate. BMC Psychology, 12(1), 1–12.
O’Keeffe, V., Howard, S., Neall, A., Cebulla, A., & Hordacre, A.-L. (2024). Harmful Behaviours in the Workplace: A Literature Review. Flinders University.
Potter, R., Afsharian, A., Richter, S., Neser, D., Zadow, A., Dollard, M., & Lushington, K. (2024). Longitudinal investigation of restructuring, psychosocial safety climate and burnout in Australian universities during COVID-19 2020–2022. Journal of Industrial Relations, 67(2), 224-248.
Deady, M., Sanatkar, S., Tan, L., Glozier, N., Gayed, A., Petrie, K., Dalgaard, V. L., Stratton, E., LaMontagne, A. D., & Harvey, S. B. (2024). A mentally healthy framework to guide employers and policy makers. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1430540.
Potter, R. E., Zadow, A., Dollard, M., Pignata, S., & Lushington, K. (2022). Digital communication, health & wellbeing in universities: a double-edged sword. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 44(1), 72–89.
Dollard, M. F., & Bailey, T. (2021). Building psychosocial safety climate in turbulent times: The case of COVID-19. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(7), 951.
Escartín, J., Dollard, M., Zapf, D., & Kozlowski, S. W. (2021). Multilevel emotional exhaustion: psychosocial safety climate and workplace bullying as higher level contextual and individual explanatory factors. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(5), 742-752.
Johnson et al., (2020). A review and agenda for examining how technology-driven changes at work will impact workplace mental health and employee well-being. Australian Journal of Management. 45(3), 402-424.
Petrie, Joyce, Tan et al., (2018). Framework to Create More Mentally Healthy Workplaces: A Viewpoint. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 52(1), 15-23.
Becher, H., & Dollard, M. F. (2016). Psychosocial safety climate and better productivity in Australian workplaces: Costs, productivity, presenteeism, absenteeism. Safe Work Australia.
Bond, S. A., Tuckey, M. R., & Dollard, M. F. (2010). Psychosocial safety climate, workplace bullying, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Organization Development Journal, 28, 37–56.
Dollard, M. F., & Bakker, A. B. (2010). Psychosocial safety climate as a precursor to conducive work environments, psychological health problems, and employee engagement. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology, 83(3), 579-599.