When High Performance Cultures Create Psychosocial Hazards

Across Australia, businesses are being told to make their workplaces psychosocially safe. Very few have been told what that means in practice, or where to look first. So the obligation becomes a survey, a policy, a training module – and the daily experience of the people doing the work stays exactly where it was.

Written by a Fractional HR Leader and former Chief People Officer, this article names what sits underneath the framework: in a startup or scale up, most psychosocial risk is built into how work is designed – unclear roles, decisions that default upward,