From Evidence to Action: Designing Psychosocial Hazard Controls That Work

Part 2 of the myosh × Skodel Psychosocial Hazards series

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In Part 1 of this series, we covered what a psychosocial hazard is, how the law has changed, and what regulators expect, including two real enforcement cases where a policy existed only on paper and was never put into practice.

That raised the obvious next question: once you’ve identified and assessed your psychosocial hazards, how do you actually design controls that work, and prove they’re working?

That’s what Part 2 is about.

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Join myosh’s Kristina Shields and Skodel’s Ian Fagan, co-founder and director, and the person behind how Skodel’s hazard data gets turned into real, operational change, for a practical session on moving from evidence to action: designing controls that fit how your business actually operates, why staff consultation is a control in its own right, and how to monitor whether what you’ve put in place is genuinely reducing risk.

You’ll walk away able to:

• Turn hazard exposure-and-impact data into control measures that are operationally realistic, not just theoretically sound.

• Understand why asking staff what might help is itself a meaningful control, not just a consultation checkbox.

• Recognise the “predictable moments”, restructures, performance management, return to work, change of manager, that need a planned response before they become a hazard.

• Apply a practical approach to monitoring controls over time, so you can show they’re working rather than just assuming they are.

• Leave with a clear next step for closing the loop on your own identify-assess-act-monitor system of work.

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