Australian work health and safety policy for the regulation of psychosocial risks: perspectives from key informants

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dc.contributor.authorPotter, Rachel E.
dc.contributor.authorO'Keefe, Valerie
dc.contributor.authorLeka, Stavroula
dc.contributor.authorDollard, Maureen
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-09T12:02:28Z
dc.date.available2019-05-09T12:02:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-05
dc.description.abstractThe regulation of psychosocial hazards and risks, for the protection of psychological health, is a highly debated issue within work health and safety (WHS). Increasing work-related psychological illness and injury, alongside growing academic evidence and community awareness, has fuelled the need to better prevent and regulate psychosocial hazards and risks. Research must clarify challenges and improvements to policy and practice from stakeholder perspectives. We conduct a qualitative interview-based investigation with 25 informed participants on the effectiveness of Australian WHS policies for psychosocial risk regulation. Participants are active in diverse roles including policy development, program implementation, industry advice, and psychosocial risk inspection. Inductive analysis revealed divergent viewpoints that are categorized into three broad themes: (1) scant specificity in the current regulatory WHS policy framework, (2) compliance complexities and (3) the role of regulators in action. Tension points also emerged between these themes and subthemes, including: (a) how psychosocial risks should be addressed in legislation, (b) how to establish compliance, and (c) the role of the regulator in evaluating compliance, and facilitating education and better practice. Future research must continue to disseminate knowledge from WHS informants to guide better practice. Also, researchers should investigate organizational barriers that hinder WHS psychosocial risk regulation.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPotter, R. E., O’Keeffe, V., Leka, S. and Dollard, M. (2019) 'Australian work health and safety policy for the regulation of psychosocial risks: perspectives from key informants', Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, In Press. doi: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1590765en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14773996.2019.1590765en
dc.identifier.endpage33en
dc.identifier.issn1477-3996
dc.identifier.issn1477-4003
dc.identifier.journaltitlePolicy and Practice in Health and Safetyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7871
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14773996.2019.1590765
dc.rights© 2019 Informa Limited. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Policy and Practice in Health and Safety on 05 April 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14773996.2019.1590765en
dc.subjectRegulationen
dc.subjectPsychosocial hazardsen
dc.subjectPsychosocial risksen
dc.subjectWork health and safetyen
dc.subjectPsychological healthen
dc.titleAustralian work health and safety policy for the regulation of psychosocial risks: perspectives from key informantsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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