Psychological health and safety in the workplace - Prevention, promotion, and guidance to staged implementation
Scope:
This Standard specifies requirements for a documented and systematic approach to develop and sustain a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, and provides complimentary information in Annexes A to G. This Standard provides a framework to create and continually improve a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, including
- the identification and elimination of hazards in the workplace that pose a risk of psychological harm to a worker;
- the assessment and control of the risks in the workplace associated with hazards that cannot be eliminated;
Note: For example, stressors due to organizational change or reasonable job demands. - implementing structures and practices that support and promote psychological health and safety in the workplace; and
- fostering a culture that promotes psychological health and safety in the workplace.
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