free psychosocial safety readiness check

Find out where your psychosocial safety stands before a regulator does

A WHS manager in her early 40s sitting at her desk on a normal Tuesday morning, laptop open, coffee beside her, pausing before she starts her day. She has one hand on the laptop trackpad and the other resting on the desk, looking at the screen with the honest, slightly uncomfortable expression of someone about to find out something she probably should have checked sooner — not dread, not alarm, just the particular face of someone choosing to ask the question rather than waiting for someone else to ask it for her. The screen shows a clean, structured assessment interface — a short series of sections with progress indicators, the kind of thing that takes fifteen minutes — visible in layout but not legible. Her office is a normal, mid-sized Australian workplace: open-plan desks visible behind her, a colleague walking past with a folder, morning light through the windows. Everything is ordinary. The only thing unusual is that she is about to be honest with herself about where her organisation stands. The scene captures the readiness check as what it actually is — a fifteen-minute self-assessment that a real person takes at their real desk on a real morning, because knowing where you stand is better than guessing.

A psychosocial risk assessment, built for the regulation

This readiness check is a short, preliminary snapshot of where your organisation sits on psychosocial risk. It is not a formal psychosocial risk assessment; it is an initial benchmark, structured around the 17 hazard categories named in Safe Work Australia's model Code of Practice, that helps you see which areas warrant a closer look. ReFresh is the psychosocial operating system that turns preliminary visibility into ongoing management, so psychosocial compliance becomes a continuous operation rather than a one-off score.

Frequently asked questions

What is a psychosocial risk assessment?

A psychosocial risk assessment is the formal process of identifying workplace factors that can harm mental health, evaluating the likelihood and severity of harm, and deciding what controls are needed. Australian WHS regulations require employers to do this systematically across the 17 psychosocial hazard categories, including job demands, poor support, bullying, harassment, and low job control. This readiness check is not a formal risk assessment. It is a preliminary tool that helps you see where your organisation currently stands before undertaking the full assessment process.

How is this different from an engagement or wellbeing survey?

Engagement surveys measure how people feel. A psychosocial risk assessment identifies what hazards exist and whether your controls are adequate. The two produce different data for different purposes. Regulators ask to see hazard identification and control evidence, not sentiment scores. Different tool, different job.

What framework does this readiness check use?

The check is structured around Safe Work Australia's model Code of Practice for managing psychosocial hazards at work, the 17 hazard categories named in state WHS codes, and the principles of ISO 45003. As a preliminary tool, it gives you an initial view across the same territory a full psychosocial risk assessment would cover, so the output points clearly to where deeper work is needed.

What happens after I submit?

You receive a detailed PDF report with your findings, including areas of strength, areas that warrant closer attention, and which of the 17 hazard categories to prioritise. The report is a starting point for a formal psychosocial risk assessment, not a replacement for one. If you want to move from a preliminary snapshot to continuous management, the same framework underpins the ReFresh platform, and we can walk you through how that looks in a short demo.