The Psychosocial Safety
Toolbox
60 evidence-based tools to help your leaders confidently assess, control, and review psychosocial safety.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS SAY:
You’ve probably noticed it — the tension that lingers after a difficult meeting, the team member anxiously sending emails at all hours, the quiet dread another change announcement creates. These are psychosocial hazards. And left unaddressed, they put people at risk of burning out.
Unfortunately, the emotional and social demands of work have never been more complex — which means the risks of getting it wrong have never been higher either. Which is why new codes and laws require workplaces to assess, control, and review risks as far as is reasonably practicable. This means leaders need to be able to spot the signals, have honest conversations about what’s happening, and know what to do about it.
What we know — from research with more than 1,000 workers — is that compliance alone isn’t enough. The workplaces with the lowest levels of psychosocial risk are also the most caring. Small, frequent expressions of care — at an individual, team, and organization level — are what help people feel safe enough to speak up and sort things out together.
This is what The Psychosocial Safety Toolbox is built to help your leaders do:
Assess: Help Your Leaders Spot The Signals
The Assessing Psychosocial Hazards Guide (PDF) — created in partnership with MinterEllison’s employment lawyers — gives your leaders a practical, plain-language guide to the signals to look and listen for across every major psychosocial hazard category. Cheat sheets and a ready-to-display hazards poster help them identify what’s happening in their team right now. The average psychosocial claim costs $85,000 and keeps people off work for 175 days. What leaders can’t see, they can’t address.
Control: 60 Evidence-Based Tools They Can Immediately Use
The Controlling Psychosocial Hazards Guide introduces CARE — four factors research shows help keep psychosocial risks in check: Compassion, Appreciation, Responsibility, and Emotional Wisdom. Each factor comes with practical, evidence-based tools leaders can use straight away, plus a beautifully designed poster to display or share digitally. And sharing this toolbox with your leaders is itself a documentable control — evidence that you have educated and resourced your people.
Review: Integrate Controls Into Existing Ways Of Working
The CARE Dynamic Map gives every leader a simple process to see where CARE is already being expressed, where the gaps are, and how to anchor new tools into the role modeling, rituals, routines, and rules that already exist. It makes it easy for leaders to check whether controls are working, adjust as circumstances change, and keep a record of what they’ve done.
Feel free to print and share with as many leaders as you need. All materials are available for co-branding or rebranding to fit your culture and context — we simply ask that you acknowledge The Leaders Lab as the original source.
Used by HR teams and leaders across construction, government (federal, state and local), retail, banking, energy, human services, schools, and more.
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An overview of everything included in The Psychosocial Safety Toolbox.
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Immediately download both guides, all posters, and the Dynamic Map.
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