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Legal and practical expertise for non-legal managers and professionals.
Under WHS law, the team carrying too much, the complaint sitting in an inbox and the investigation that has dragged on for months are all hazards, and managing them is now your duty. One plain-English day on what the law expects of you, how to find and assess hazards, and which controls regulators actually accept.
Managing Workplace Psychosocial Hazards is a one-day masterclass from The Leadership Institute for HR, WHS and risk professionals. It explains Australian psychosocial hazard law in plain English, how to identify and assess hazards, and which controls regulators accept. It runs in person in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth between 9 and 18 March 2027, and live online on 12 March. It earns 6 CPD hours, and you leave with five ready-to-use templates.
A full day with a room of HR, WHS and risk professionals working through the same problems you face.
The same day and the same exercises, delivered live from 9:00am to 5:00pm Sydney time.
Psychosocial risk is a whole-of-organisation duty. Train HR, WHS and your people leaders together so everyone works to the same standard.
In-person price shown at First In rates. Live online from $1,099 + GST. See all prices
We’ve written the request for you: why it matters, the dates and the price. Pop in your name and email to download it as a Word doc, and we’ll send you a copy too.
HR, WHS and risk teams learn more together. Group discounts apply to every price. For ten or more, we run the masterclass in-house for your organisation.
Somewhere in your organisation there is a team that has carried too much for too long, a manager who stopped answering email after 7pm because the replies only made it worse, and a complaint that has sat in an inbox for eleven weeks because nobody is sure what to do with it. None of it is dramatic. All of it is a psychosocial hazard, and the law now expects you to have found it, assessed it and controlled it.
Every Australian jurisdiction has psychosocial hazards written into its WHS regulations, and the regulators have moved from guidance to enforcement. In late 2025 the Department of Defence became the first Commonwealth employer convicted of failing to manage psychosocial risk. In March 2026 SafeWork NSW improvement notices that began with one employee’s complaint were upheld against every workplace the Department of Education runs. The policy existed. Nobody followed it.
The people who end up explaining this to an inspector are rarely lawyers. They are HR, WHS and risk professionals who inherited the duty along with everything else and were told to “do something about psychosocial” without being told what the law actually requires.
This one-day masterclass gives you the legal position in plain English, a method to identify and assess hazards that survives scrutiny, the controls regulators actually accept, and the templates to go back and fix what is sitting in that inbox.
Why it matters now: mental health conditions are 12% of serious workers’ compensation claims, up 161% in ten years, and they keep people off work five times longer than other serious claims. Source: Safe Work Australia, Key WHS Statistics Australia 2025.
Members of the Australian HR Institute, the Australian Institute of Health & Safety, the Governance Institute of Australia and the Risk Management Institute of Australasia may claim this masterclass as verifiable or structured CPD. The live online session earns the same hours. Every delegate receives a certificate of attendance.
Designed for the people who carry the psychosocial duty in practice, whether or not they have any legal training.
Your facilitator is a practising WHS or employment lawyer who has advised employers through regulator investigations, and who teaches the law to non-lawyers in plain English.
The same facilitator delivers every session, so every city and the online day receive the same content, the same materials and the same standard. We will announce them here shortly.
“It was an immersive experience and very practical as well.”Major Road Projects Victoria
“Incredibly knowledgeable.”
“Time well spent despite being in a time poor role.”
“I found the course very useful and am able to apply those techniques in my role.”
“Enjoyable and easy to understand in layman’s terms. It helped me a lot.”
“Excellent, it made a complex subject very accessible.”
All prices are per delegate and exclude GST.
Need sign-off first? We’ve written the request for you: why it matters, the dates and the price. Pop in your name and email to download it as a Word doc, and we’ll send you a copy too.
Get the manager approval templateBooking 3 to 9 people? Group discounts apply to every price above. Ten or more? We run it in-house for your organisation.
Request a group or in-house quoteThe agenda, dates, pricing and terms in one PDF, ready to share with your manager.
Everything in one six-page PDF: the agenda, every date, venue and price, and the terms.
Download the brochure (PDF)Questions? Call (02) 8294 2044 or email info@theleadershipinstitute.com.au.
Registration opens at 8:30am and the day runs 9:00am to 5:00pm. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are provided; let us know any dietary requirements at least 5 working days ahead. Dress code is business casual.
Delivered live on Zoom from 9:00am to 5:00pm Sydney time (AEDT), which is 8:00am–4:00pm in Brisbane and 6:00am–2:00pm in Perth. You take part in every discussion and exercise and receive the same templates, certificate and CPD hours.
You’ll need a computer with a stable connection, a quiet room, a webcam and a headset with a microphone.
No. The masterclass is designed for HR, WHS, risk and people leaders, and no legal training is assumed. The law is explained in plain English.
Yes. The live online session on Friday 12 March 2027 runs from 9:00am to 5:00pm Sydney time, with the same exercises, templates, certificate and CPD hours as the in-person days.
At First In rates (until 20 November 2026) it costs $1,199 + GST in person or $1,099 + GST online. Early Bird rates (until 5 February 2027) are $1,499 or $1,299, and Standard rates are $1,699 or $1,449. Groups of 3–4 save 10% and groups of 5–9 save 15%.
In person at Karstens Sydney (9 March), Cliftons Canberra (10 March), Karstens Melbourne (16 March), Karstens Brisbane (17 March) and Karstens Perth (18 March 2027), and live online on Zoom on 12 March 2027.
Yes, six hours. Members of the Australian HR Institute, the Australian Institute of Health & Safety, the Governance Institute of Australia and the Risk Management Institute of Australasia may claim the masterclass as verifiable or structured CPD. Every delegate receives a certificate of attendance.
A practising WHS or employment lawyer who has advised employers through regulator investigations. We will announce the facilitator on this page shortly. The same facilitator delivers every session.
Registration opens at 8:30am and the course runs 9:00am to 5:00pm. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are provided. You also leave with five templates: a psychosocial risk register, a hazard identification checklist, a consultation plan, an investigation timeline protocol and a one-page officer briefing.
You can send a substitute at no cost, or transfer to another Leadership Institute event. Cancellations emailed to us receive a credit note valid for 12 months; within 14 days of the event the credit note is less a $300 service fee. We do not provide cash refunds.
Yes. Groups of 3–4 save 10% and 5–9 save 15%. For ten or more, we run the masterclass in-house for your organisation, at your office or online and tailored to your sector. Call (02) 8294 2044 or request a quote on this page.
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