Overview of the Psychosocial Hazard Work Re-design Tool (PHReD-T)

Anticipated competencies

It is anticipated that this suite of resources will help to develop: 

  • Understanding of the concept of mentally healthy workplaces 

  • Knowledge of psychosocial hazards 

  • Skills in identifying psychosocial hazards  

  • Knowledge of work design processes, tools and methods 

  • Skills in identifying work design tools appropriate to psychosocial hazards  

  • Skills in planning the re-design of work 

Intended outcomes 

These resources are intended to build your capabilities to identify psychosocial hazards and undertake a work re-design intervention in your workplace. After using the resources and PHReD tool (PHReD-T), you will be able to: 

  • Describe the role of organisations in providing a mentally healthy workplace 

  • Communicate the relationship between work design and psychosocial hazards in your workplace 

  • Identify psychosocial hazards in aspects of your workplace  

  • Analyse workplace scenarios to identify potential work re-design solutions 

  • Assemble a plan to re-design work, including evaluation of the plans 

  • Build and communicate a case for implementation

What you will achieve  

The materials and activities in these resources build toward the main task of developing an action plan for re-designing a work task or scenario at your workplace. You can implement this plan and use it later as a model for other task re-design projects.

About 

The aim of the Psychosocial Hazard Work Re-Design suite of resources and Tool (PHReD-T) is to help you develop understanding and skills to identify psychosocial hazards at work, and to design or re-design work to create mentally healthy workplaces in alignment with the NSW Government’s Code of Practice for Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work. This will have a positive and protective impact on people’s health and wellbeing, benefitting you and your workplace.  

The resource suite is designed to be self-paced, in that there is flexibility regarding when you complete each element. We recommend completing the activities in the background materials, the tool, watching the videos and listening to the audio resources in the order outlined here.

This might not always be possible an you may need to complete more or less of the activities at times that are convenient for you.