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Practical, in-house workshops for leaders, teams and WHS professionals: build a culture where people speak up, and meet your psychosocial hazard obligations. Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or online.
Two things organisations ask for, and how they connect. Psychological safety is the culture side: people raise problems, admit mistakes and challenge decisions without fear. Psychosocial safety is the WHS side: the hazards employers must now identify and control, such as high workload, poor support, conflict and exposure to trauma. Essemy trains leaders and teams in both, in your workplace, with facilitators who do this work for a living. Workshops are grouped by who they are for; with the price, duration and a link to the profile of the facilitator.
Psychological safety is not a soft concept — it is a measurable team condition with direct links to productivity, retention, innovation, and wellbeing. It is also an emerging compliance consideration under Australian psychosocial safety legislation, making it an.
Facilitated by Caroline Crosbie, based in Perth
This workshop provides participants the opportunity to dive into the concept of psychological safety and understand its importance as a support for reducing psychosocial risks in the workplace. Participants will gain an understanding of the difference between psychological.
Facilitated by Ruth Kent, based in Brisbane
This practical and engaging workshop equips leaders, managers, and HR professionals with the tools to recognise, assess, and manage psychosocial risks in the workplace. Participants explore how stress, workload, conflict, and culture can impact psychological health, and how.
Facilitated by Sandy McCristal, based in Brisbane
Difficult conversations are essential for authentic leadership and a psychologically safe workplace, yet many leaders avoid them. This interactive workshop empowers leaders to embrace courageous communication by developing the skills and tools needed to navigate brave conversations effectively..
Facilitated by Julie Loveny, based in Perth
This 2-day program, "Empowering Leaders: Fostering Growth Mindset and Psychological Safety," is designed to help leaders cultivate a growth mindset and create a supportive, psychologically safe team environment. Participants will gain enhanced self-awareness recognising areas where they can.
Facilitated by Dr Nancy Pavisich, based in Perth
An unwell, burnt out, and disconnected culture breeds quiet quitting, loud quitting, diminishes a sense of trust, and increases the risk of people experiencing psychosocial hazards. Persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must eliminate risks of these.
Facilitated by Charlotte Jameson, based in Sydney
Psychological safety is the foundation of high-performing teams. Neuroscience reveals that the human brain is programmed to scan the environment five times a second, posing a critical question: “Am I safe here or am I in danger?” When.
Facilitated by Suzie Whitfield, based in Perth
The 'Fearless Teams' program develops team Psychological Safety for Health, Safety and Performance. Utilising the licensed 'Fearless Organization Scan' tool, the program includes a series of short sessions to facilitate team discussion, reduce fear and promote voice in.
Facilitated by Alastair Milne, based in Perth
Psychological Safety is a term that we all hear. How many of us truly understand what the term means, and the importance to building high performing teams? This 90 minute interactive and experiential workshop will provide an engaging.
Facilitated by Fran Cormack, based in Perth
This interactive, thought provoking and practically oriented workshop lays out the foundations and business case for promoting a psychologically safe work environment that will enhance engagement, alternative viewpoints and promote a safe culture to speak up in. An.
Facilitated by Steven Ball, based in Melbourne
This Psychological Safety in the workplace workshop aims to create an environment where individuals feel safe to express their thoughts, take risks, and make mistakes without fear of judgment or retaliation. The outcomes of such workshops can vary.
Facilitated by Julia Maddison, based in Sydney
While most organisations have focused on measuring and planning for employee engagement, there is an element of psychological safety that has been identified as necessary for high performance teams. Ensuring that we can bring out the best in.
Facilitated by Suzy Roche, based in Perth
Psychosocial hazards are experienced differently by individual employees based on their personal situations and resilience at the time of experiencing the hazard. A psychosocial hazard for one person may not necessarily be a hazard for another. To manage.
Facilitated by Sharlie Morrison, based in Perth
WHS and HR professionals are routinely exposed to some of the most psychologically demanding work in organisations - investigations, traumatic disclosures, conflict, occupational violence and critical incidents. Over time, this cumulative exposure creates a real risk of burnout,.
Facilitated by Tenneile Manenti, based in Brisbane
Investigations into workplace incidents, complaints and misconduct can unintentionally escalate distress, compromise evidence and increase organisational risk—particularly where trauma, stress or psychosocial hazards are present. This workshop provides WHS and People and Culture professionals with a practical, evidence-based.
Facilitated by Tenneile Manenti, based in Brisbane
OVA is often treated as a frontline behaviour issue or an unavoidable part of customer-facing work. In practice, prevention is most effective when organisations strengthen systems including work design, environments, governance, leadership expectations and reporting processes. This workshop.
Facilitated by Tenneile Manenti, based in Brisbane
The codes of practice name the common psychosocial hazards. Our leader and WHS workshops teach managers to recognise each one in their own team, consult about it and act.
Sustained workload, time pressure and emotional demands that exceed what people can recover from.
Little say over how, when or with whom the work is done.
Managers or colleagues who are unavailable, untrained or unwilling to help.
Restructures and new systems announced without consultation or clear reasons.
From customers, patients, the public or co-workers, including threats and abuse.
Repeated unreasonable behaviour, including sexual harassment and discrimination.
Working alone, at night or far from help, with limited contact.
Exposure to distressing incidents or material, directly or through the work of others.
The WHS duty on psychosocial hazards is real, recent and enforceable. This is what it asks of a manager, without the legal language.
Since 2022 the model WHS laws treat psychosocial hazards the same way as physical ones: a business must identify them, assess the risk and control it so far as is reasonably practicable. Safe Work Australia’s model Code of Practice, Managing psychosocial hazards at work, sets out how.
Western Australia adopted this through the Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 and its own code of practice on psychosocial hazards in the workplace. New South Wales has had its Managing psychosocial hazards at work code since 2021, Queensland made its code mandatory in 2023, and Victoria has brought in its own psychological health regulations.
In practice, “reasonably practicable” for a manager means knowing the common hazards (high job demands, low control, poor support, poor change management, violence and aggression, bullying and harassment, remote or isolated work), consulting workers about them, acting on what comes up, and being able to show you did. Training is one of the controls the codes name, and it is the one that changes what managers do on Monday.
Since December 2023 employers also carry a positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act to prevent sexual harassment and hostile workplaces, which overlaps with the psychosocial duty. Our leader and WHS workshops cover it where it applies.
We run sessions at your workplace, at a venue we can help arrange, or online. The facilitators listed below are based in each city, which means local delivery without travel costs and a facilitator who knows that market and its regulator.
Perth. Essemy is headquartered in Perth and has a large team of workplace psychologists and WHS specialists.
Sydney. Sydney-based facilitators deliver across New South Wales, on site or online.
Melbourne. Melbourne-based facilitators deliver across Victoria on site or online.
Brisbane. Three of our safety facilitators are based in Brisbane and cover Queensland workshops, including the WHS and HR sessions.
We start with what you already know: incident and complaint patterns, survey results, turnover, and a conversation with the person who owns the outcome. A psychosocial risk survey or one of Essemy's culture and workforce surveys can support delivery outcomes.
We choose the workshops and the facilitator, then contextualise the cases and exercises around your hazards, your industry and the situations your leaders actually face. Design normally takes one to two weeks.
Half-day, full-day or multi-day sessions, on site or online, for leaders, teams or WHS and HR. We agree what a good result looks like before we start to ensure delivery is aligned to expectations.
Our facilitators are practitioners first: workplace psychologists, WHS and HR specialists, and former leaders who have managed the hazards they teach. Every workshop above names its facilitator, and every facilitator has a profile you can read before you decide. If you would rather we match one to your brief, tell us the situation and we will propose two.
Teams with psychological safety raise problems early, learn from mistakes and hold each other to account. Psychosocial hazards left unmanaged show up as absence, turnover, complaints and claims. Training gives leaders and teams a shared language and practical tools for both, and it is one of the controls the WHS codes of practice expect employers to use.
How it benefits your organisation:
Managers know the hazards, consult their people and act early, so problems are handled before they become injuries, complaints or claims.
When it is safe to raise a concern or admit a mistake, teams fix issues while they are small and leaders hear what is really going on.
Training is a recognised control. You can show regulators, boards and your own people what you did, and when.
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Straight answers to the questions WHS, HR and people leaders ask before they book.
Psychological safety is a team climate: people feel able to speak up, ask questions, admit mistakes and challenge decisions without fear of embarrassment or punishment. Psychosocial safety is a WHS obligation: identifying and controlling the aspects of work that can harm mental health, such as high job demands, low support, poor change management, conflict, bullying and exposure to trauma. Good leaders need both, which is why our workshops connect them.
The WHS laws do not name a compulsory course, but they require employers to manage psychosocial hazards so far as is reasonably practicable, and the codes of practice list training and information for managers and workers as a control. In practice, if your managers cannot recognise the hazards or consult their teams about them, it is hard to show the duty is being met.
Introductory sessions run for two to three hours, most workshops run for a half day or a full day, and team or leadership workshops can run across two days or several sessions. Each workshop above shows its duration.
Yes, almost all of our workshops are delivered in-house, at your workplace, or a venue we arrange, in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or elsewhere in Australia, and online for distributed teams.
Where it applies. The positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act overlaps with the psychosocial duty on harassment and hostile workplaces, and the leader and WHS workshops address it. For dedicated respectful workplace training, please contact our team and we can share the options available.
Each workshop page shows its price for an in-house group, from about $990 for a short introductory session to $6,500 for multi-day workshops. Customisation, travel and multi-session pathways are quoted after the discovery call.
