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Psychosocial training for leaders

Confident leaders. Safer teams.

Live, specialist-led training and workshops that give managers the skills to recognise psychosocial hazards, support their people and meet their obligations.

Is this you?

Your managers are the control. Are they ready?

Most psychosocial hazards sit in how work is designed and led: workload, role clarity, support, fairness, conflict. Managers shape all of these every day, often without knowing their legal role.

Our training is delivered live by a psychosocial specialist, never as a click-through online course, and built around your organisation’s real situations.

  • New or newly promoted managers
  • Executive teams and boards
  • HR and safety teams
  • After an assessment or incident
  • Respect@Work obligations

Programs

Practical, live and specific to you.

Run as standalone sessions or as a series. Delivered face to face at your workplace, or live online.

Positive Duty briefings

What leaders must do under WHS laws and the Positive Duty, including taking reasonable and proportionate measures to prevent sexual harassment, explained plainly for executives and managers.

Identifying and supporting staff at risk

How to notice early warning signs, start the conversation and know where to go next.

Hazard identification and controls

How to spot psychosocial hazards in everyday work and put practical controls in place.

Reporting and compliance

How to respond to and record concerns so your systems work and your obligations are met.

Respect@Work and inclusion

Organisational justice and inclusion as safety controls, aligned to the Respect@Work framework.

Workforce awareness

Staff sessions on recognising hazards and using your reporting systems with confidence.

Example programs

Built for each level of your organisation.

Programs are tailored to your organisation, your hazards and the situations your people actually face. These examples show how they fit together.

  • 3 hours
  • Face to face or online

Senior leader session

For executives and officers. Builds shared ownership and a common way of thinking about psychosocial risk at the top.

  • Personal duties, including officer due diligence and the duty to consult
  • The risk management process and how to read a heat map
  • Rating current controls and placing them on the hierarchy
  • What a regulator or auditor would expect to see
  • Full day
  • Hands-on

Manager training day

For leaders with direct reports. Practical skills, practised on realistic scenarios rather than slides.

  • Spotting when someone is struggling, in person and remote
  • Having a supportive conversation, and what to avoid
  • Telling performance issues from mental health concerns, and the right process for each
  • Practical changes that ease pressure at its source
  • Flexible length
  • All staff

Whole-of-organisation session

For every team. A shared, plain-English understanding of psychosocial hazards and how to raise a concern.

  • What psychosocial hazards are and how they show up at work
  • Everyone's role in a safe, respectful workplace
  • How to use your reporting and support systems with confidence
  • Any length
  • Any audience

Fully customised program

Built from scratch around your organisation. We shape the content, length, format and audience to your hazards, your people and what you need to achieve.

  • Mix and match topics from any program, or add new ones
  • Board, executive, manager, team or workforce sessions
  • Single sessions, a series, or a program over several months
  • Linked to your risk register and assessment findings

Training with a consulting thread. Sessions can capture what your leaders and managers see day to day, feeding a short review of your top three hazards and a debrief with clear next steps. It turns training into evidence, and gives you a credible starting point for a fuller assessment.

What leaders leave with

Skills they use on Monday.

Every session uses examples from your own workplace, so it feels relevant from the first minute.

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  • A clear understanding of their legal role
  • Confidence to have early, supportive conversations
  • A practical way to spot and report hazards
  • Knowledge of the controls they own
  • Training records that support your compliance

Training alone isn’t a control. Capable leaders are.

On the hierarchy of controls, training is an administrative control: valuable, but not enough on its own. Regulators expect controls that change how work is done. That is why our training links directly to your hazards, your systems and your risk register, and helps leaders put higher-order controls in place.

Questions

Common questions.

Is this an online course?

No. Every session is delivered live by a specialist, face to face at your workplace or live online, so leaders can ask questions about real situations.

Can you tailor it to our organisation?

Yes. We build sessions around your hazards, your policies and the situations your leaders actually face.

Who should attend?

Anyone who leads people, from team leaders to the executive team and board. We also run sessions for HR and safety teams, and for the wider workforce.

Can training follow an assessment?

Yes, and that is where it works best. Findings from an assessment tell us exactly what your leaders need.

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