Psychosocial Safety Framework
Identify workplace psychosocial hazards, understand your risks and establish a practical framework for safer work.
Assessing Psychosocial Hazards and Strengthening Workplace Safety
Gain an independent understanding of psychosocial risks across your organisation, gather workforce insights, investigate areas of concern and establish a practical roadmap for improving psychosocial safety.
Identify Psychosocial Hazards
- Organisational context and operating environment
- Leadership, management and frontline consultation
- Existing psychosocial risk assessments and controls
- Potential hazards requiring further attention
Validate Experiences
- Targeted psychosocial safety survey
- Workforce feedback and experiences
- Analysis of patterns and emerging concerns
- Validation of initial assessment findings
Investigate Priority Concerns
- Targeted focus groups and interviews
- Contributing factors and workplace context
- Additional evidence to inform risk assessment
- Opportunities to strengthen existing controls
Build Improvement Roadmap
- Consolidated assessment findings
- Psychosocial safety framework recommendations
- Policies, procedures and risk register improvements
- Prioritised actions and training requirements
Already completed some of this work?
If your organisation has already undertaken psychosocial risk assessments, workforce surveys or other relevant activities, we can use your existing information as a starting point.
Our approach is flexible and collaborative. We can work alongside your team, incorporating existing evidence and supporting activities undertaken internally to reduce duplication, minimise the level of external effort required and manage overall assessment costs.
Our AI Readiness Review & Action Plan helps organisations understand where AI is being used, identify opportunities for improvement, uncover risks and capability gaps, and establish a clear pathway for structured AI adoption.
Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment Inclusions
Our structured assessment of psychosocial hazards, workforce experiences, organisational controls and framework requirements includes:
Psychosocial Risk Assessment
A structured assessment of your organisational context, potential psychosocial hazards and existing risk management arrangements, informed by consultation with leadership, management and frontline representatives.
Workforce Survey & Analysis
Development of a targeted psychosocial safety survey, collation of workforce responses and analysis of findings to identify emerging concerns and validate initial assessment results.
Focus Groups & Facilitated Interviews
Where required, independently facilitated consultation to explore priority concerns, understand contributing factors and gather additional context surrounding identified psychosocial hazards.
Framework Review & Recommendations Report
A consolidated assessment report identifying key findings, gaps in existing arrangements and recommendations for establishing or strengthening your psychosocial safety framework.
Prioritised Improvement Roadmap
A practical roadmap outlining recommended actions across risk controls, policies, procedures, registers, governance arrangements and workforce training requirements.
How Our Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment Works
A structured, practical process designed to identify psychosocial hazards, validate workforce concerns and establish a clear roadmap for strengthening workplace safety.
Psychosocial Risk Assessment
We begin by understanding your organisation, operating environment, workforce profile and existing psychosocial risk management arrangements.
Through a review of organisational context and initial consultation with leadership, management and frontline representatives, we identify potential psychosocial hazards, existing controls and areas requiring further attention.
Where your organisation has already undertaken relevant risk assessments, we can incorporate that work to reduce duplication while providing an independent perspective.
An independent view of psychosocial hazards, organisational context and existing risk controls.
Workforce Survey & Validation
We develop a targeted psychosocial safety survey to gather workforce perspectives and understand whether additional concerns require consideration.
Survey findings are consolidated and analysed to identify patterns, emerging issues and potential hazards that may not have been captured through the initial organisational assessment.
This provides an additional source of evidence to validate findings and determine where further investigation may be beneficial.
Structured workforce insights to strengthen the evidence base and identify areas requiring attention.
Focus Groups & Facilitated Interviews
Where further investigation is appropriate, we facilitate targeted focus groups or interviews with relevant workforce representatives.
These discussions help explore identified concerns, understand contributing factors and examine the workplace conditions surrounding potential psychosocial hazards.
Independent facilitation can provide an environment that supports open participation, with appropriate confidentiality and reporting arrangements agreed before consultation begins.
Deeper understanding of workforce experiences and the organisational factors influencing psychosocial risk.
Report & Prioritise Action
We consolidate the risk assessment, survey findings and consultation outcomes into a structured report outlining identified psychosocial hazards, existing control considerations and priority areas for improvement.
Recommendations may include establishing or strengthening a psychosocial safety framework, improving policies and procedures, updating risk registers and identifying appropriate training requirements.
The findings are translated into a prioritised roadmap to support informed leadership decisions, practical risk control improvements and continual improvement.
Clear recommendations and a practical roadmap for strengthening psychosocial safety across your organisation.
Why Organisations Engage Us
Psychosocial hazards can be complex, interconnected and difficult to identify through traditional workplace reporting arrangements alone. Organisations may have existing policies, employee surveys or risk registers without a clear understanding of whether these arrangements adequately identify and manage psychosocial risks.
Our Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment provides an independent, structured approach to understanding workplace psychosocial hazards, gathering workforce insights and identifying practical improvements to risk controls, governance and organisational safety arrangements.
Is the Psychosocial Safety Framework Right for Your Organisation?
Our clients use this service when:
You Need to Identify Psychosocial Hazards
You want a structured assessment of workplace conditions and organisational factors that may create risks to psychological health and safety.
You Have Workforce Concerns Requiring Investigation
Employee feedback, workplace incidents or emerging concerns suggest that further assessment and consultation may be appropriate.
You Need Greater Confidence in Existing Controls
You have policies, procedures or risk registers in place but want an independent assessment of potential gaps and improvement opportunities.
You Want Independent Workforce Consultation
You need an external perspective and a structured consultation process that supports employees to share relevant workplace experiences.
You Need a Clear Framework and Improvement Roadmap
You want practical recommendations to strengthen psychosocial risk management arrangements and prioritise the next steps.
You Want to Build Psychosocial Safety Awareness
You want to strengthen workforce understanding of psychological safety through accessible, practical training.
Our Psychological Safety in the Workplace online learning course provides self-paced, general awareness training, with separate options for team members and managers. Organisations can enrol either audience or both, depending on their workforce development needs.
Identify psychosocial hazards. Strengthen workplace safety. Move forward with confidence.
Our Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment provides a structured, independent view of psychosocial risks, workforce experiences and existing control arrangements. Identify areas requiring attention, understand opportunities for improvement and establish a practical roadmap for strengthening psychological health and safety across your organisation.
AI Readiness Review Pricing
How do I get Started?
Start with a complimentary 30-minute Psychosocial Safety Discovery Session.
We use structured discovery questions to understand your organisation’s operating environment, current psychosocial safety arrangements, existing assessment activities and areas of concern.
Following the consultation, we will:
- Confirm the appropriate assessment scope and activities,
- Understand existing risk assessments, workforce consultation and organisational priorities,
- Identify opportunities to incorporate existing work or undertake activities collaboratively to reduce costs, and
- Prepare a tailored proposal outlining agreed deliverables and pricing.
There is no obligation to proceed. Where appropriate, existing assessment work can be incorporated into the engagement to reduce duplication and focus effort where it is most valuable.
A Simple Three-Stage Approach
The pricing below provides an indication of our Psychosocial Safety Framework assessment activities. Your final proposal will reflect your organisation’s size, existing risk assessment work, consultation requirements and agreed scope.
Psychosocial Safety Discovery Session
- A complimentary 30-minute structured consultation to understand your organisation, existing psychosocial safety arrangements, workforce concerns and assessment requirements.
Psychosocial Risk Assessment
- A structured review of organisational context, psychosocial hazards and existing controls, supported by consultation with relevant leadership, management and frontline representatives.
- Existing risk assessments and internal activities may be incorporated to reduce duplication and the level of external effort required.
Workforce Survey & Analysis
Development of a targeted psychosocial safety survey, collation of workforce responses and analysis of findings to validate initial risk assessment results and identify additional areas of concern.
- Indicative pricing is $2,500 for organisations with fewer than 50 people and $5,000 for organisations with more than 50 people. Pricing for exactly 50 people will be confirmed during scoping.
Focus Groups & Facilitated Interviews
- Independently facilitated consultation to investigate identified concerns, understand contributing factors and gather additional evidence where required.
Review & Recommendations Report
- A consolidated assessment report outlining key findings, psychosocial safety framework considerations and a prioritised roadmap for improvements to risk controls, documentation, governance and training.
Implementation & Training Support
Optional support to implement recommended improvements, establish or strengthen framework components and develop or deliver tailored training.
- Organisations can also access our Psychological Safety in the Workplace self-paced online learning courses for managers, team members or both.
Pricing is indicative and subject to the agreed scope of work. Existing assessments, internally completed activities and collaborative delivery arrangements may reduce the external effort required. Any additional work and associated costs will be agreed before proceeding.
Benefits of a Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment
Our structured approach helps organisations understand psychosocial hazards, strengthen risk management arrangements and establish practical priorities for improving workplace psychological health and safety.
Understand which psychosocial hazards may be present across your organisation. Gain a clearer view of workplace conditions, contributing factors and existing controls that require consideration.
Understand employee experiences and concerns through structured consultation. Bring workforce perspectives into the assessment to identify issues that may not be apparent through existing management processes.
Identify opportunities to strengthen policies, procedures and psychosocial risk management arrangements. Understand where existing controls and governance processes may need improvement.
Turn assessment findings into practical priorities for action. Receive structured recommendations to guide framework development, risk control improvements and targeted training.
Understand which psychosocial hazards may be present across your organisation. Gain a clearer view of workplace conditions, contributing factors and existing controls that require consideration.
Understand employee experiences and concerns through structured consultation. Bring workforce perspectives into the assessment to identify issues that may not be apparent through existing management processes.
Identify opportunities to strengthen policies, procedures and psychosocial risk management arrangements. Understand where existing controls and governance processes may need improvement.
Turn assessment findings into practical priorities for action. Receive structured recommendations to guide framework development, risk control improvements and targeted training.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Psychosocial Safety Framework Assessment?
How is this different from an employee wellbeing survey?
A wellbeing survey can provide useful information about workforce experiences, but it does not necessarily constitute a complete psychosocial risk assessment.
Our approach combines organisational risk assessment, existing evidence, workforce consultation and control reviews to develop a broader understanding of workplace risks.
Can you use our existing workforce survey results?
Yes. We can review relevant existing survey findings, risk assessments and organisational information to determine whether further consultation or analysis is required.
Will the assessment identify whether our organisation is compliant with WHS legislation?
The assessment can help identify gaps in psychosocial risk management arrangements and inform improvement priorities.
It does not, by itself, constitute legal advice or guarantee compliance with applicable work health and safety legislation.
Do you provide psychological safety training?
Yes. IGS offers tailored training support and self-paced Psychological Safety in the Workplace courses for team members and managers.
What are psychosocial hazards?
Do we need to complete every assessment activity?
No. The assessment is tailored to your organisation's circumstances, existing information and identified requirements.
Some organisations may require a comprehensive assessment, while others may benefit from targeted consultation or a review of existing arrangements.
Do you provide independent focus groups?
Yes. We can facilitate targeted focus groups or interviews where additional workforce consultation would assist in understanding identified concerns.
Can you help implement the recommendations?
How do we get started?
Make a Booking to Get Started
Book Your Complimentary AI Discovery Session
Not sure where your organisation stands with psychosocial safety?
Start with a complimentary 30-minute Psychosocial Safety Discovery Session. We’ll take you through our structured discovery questions to understand your organisation’s current psychosocial risk management arrangements, existing assessment activities, workforce concerns and opportunities for improvement.
During the session, we will:
-
Understand your organisation’s operating environment and existing psychosocial safety arrangements,
-
Explore any known psychosocial hazards, workforce concerns and current risk controls,
-
Identify existing assessments, surveys or consultation activities that could be incorporated to reduce duplication and costs,
-
Discuss opportunities for collaborative delivery, including activities your organisation may undertake internally, and
-
Determine the most appropriate assessment activities, scope and next steps.
There is no obligation to proceed. If you decide to move forward, we will prepare a tailored proposal outlining the recommended activities, deliverables and associated pricing.
Select a suitable date and time to continue.
Download Our Psychosocial Safety Framework Brochure
Learn how our structured assessment helps organisations identify psychosocial hazards, understand workforce experiences, evaluate existing risk controls and develop practical recommendations for strengthening psychological health and safety.
Contact Us
We would love to connect.
Based in Melbourne’s CBD, our management consulting team currently travel across Australia and New Zealand to support our clients. We also provide consulting & advisory through any online channels you are using in your business.
We would love to hear from you to find out how we can support you and your team.
530 Little Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000, Australia