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Executive Psychosocial Risk Governance package: briefing slides and board risk reporting example
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Executive Psychosocial Risk Governance

For the owners and directors who resource the work and need to know whether the controls are working.

  • AudienceBusiness owners, directors and senior managers
  • Duration90–120 minutes
  • CodePRRR-04
  • Version1.0 · 2.7 MB ZIP

About this package

Owners, directors and senior managers decide the resourcing, structure and priorities that create or remove psychosocial exposure across the business. This briefing equips them to oversee the risk, ask the right questions and recognise when reporting is telling them nothing.

It covers governance responsibilities, assurance, leading and lagging indicators, and how to monitor significant control failures. Officer duties are covered accurately for each jurisdiction, including Victoria, where the law takes a different form.

Learning outcomes

After the session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the governance responsibilities for psychosocial risk, and how officer duties differ between jurisdictions
  • Explain how organisational decisions on resourcing, structure and change create or reduce exposure
  • Interpret psychosocial risk reporting critically, and recognise reporting that tells them nothing
  • Distinguish leading from lagging indicators, and know the limits of each
  • Recognise and respond to a significant control failure
  • Accept exposure only knowingly: named, owned and time-limited
  • Set clear accountability for psychosocial risk controls, and ask 'how do you know?'

Training outline

MODULE 1

The green paper

  • What boards typically receive
  • What it hides
MODULE 2

What governance requires

  • Three things the board must know
  • Four questions, and 'how do you know?'
  • Officer duties by jurisdiction, including Victoria
  • Materiality, and accepting exposure knowingly
MODULE 3

Reporting

  • What the board should receive
  • Reading a report that tells you something
  • Leading and lagging indicators
MODULE 4

Assurance

  • How a dashboard stays green
  • The implementation moment
  • Is your assurance real?
  • A restructure, stage by stage

What is in the package

Briefing

  • Editable 28-slide executive presentation with speaker notes, plus PDF
  • Facilitator guide with running sheet, slide notes, debrief and model answers
  • Session plan
  • Executive briefing workbook

Governance tools

  • Risk reporting example: a typical green board paper and the same organisation reported properly
  • Governance scenario: the restructure that never ended
  • Assurance checklist with the executive question set
  • Board report template

Assessment and administration

  • Ten-question knowledge check and answer guide
  • Completion certificate template
  • Attendance register
  • Training evaluation form

Start here

  • Read Me First guide
  • Product overview
  • Permitted use terms
  • Version information

Practical activities

  • Read the report: executives compare a typical green board paper with the same organisation reported properly, and name the decisions it calls for
  • The restructure: a board-approved restructure worked through four stages, from the decision to 'delivered on budget'
  • The executive question set: applied to the organisation's own current reporting

Delivery requirements

  • A facilitator who can brief at executive level, typically the senior WHS or risk lead
  • A screen for the presentation, or a video meeting platform
  • Suits a board, executive team or leadership meeting

File formats

  • PowerPoint (.pptx), editable
  • Word (.docx), editable
  • Excel (.xlsx) for registers and records
  • PDF copies of every guide and workbook
  • Delivered as a single ZIP download
Book 1: Control the Work, Not the Worker

The book behind this package

This package follows Book 1, Control the Work, Not the Worker, from The Psychosocial Risk Series. Read it for the full method and the reasoning behind each step.

Book 1 on Amazon · The full series

Questions about this package

Is this suitable for a small business owner?

Yes. It works as a briefing for an owner and their managers, a small leadership team or a board, in under two hours, and stands on its own.

Does it cover Victoria?

Yes. Victoria's OHS Act takes a different form from the harmonised WHS laws, including how officers can be liable, and the briefing explains the difference rather than assuming one model.

Can we edit the documents?

Yes. Presentations, guides, workbooks and templates are supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them to your workplace. The copyright notice must stay.

Can we use the packages outside Australia?

Yes. The method (assess the work, control the risk, check the controls work) applies in any workplace and draws on ISO 45003, the international standard for psychological health and safety at work. The legal content refers to Australian work health and safety laws, so a business elsewhere should replace those slides with its own country's requirements. The materials are editable for exactly that.

Do participants get a certificate?

Yes. The four training packages each include an editable completion certificate template, plus an attendance register or training records spreadsheet, so you can keep proof of who completed the training for your WHS records. It is a certificate of completion issued by your business, not a nationally recognised qualification. The Implementation Toolkit is a set of workplace tools rather than a course, so it has no certificate.

Can we deliver it face to face and online?

Yes. The packages are designed for face-to-face sessions and work over a video meeting platform. The facilitator guide notes where an activity needs adjusting for online delivery.

Can we run it more than once?

Yes, as many times as you like, for your own organisation's workers.

What is your refund policy?

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected. See the Refund Policy for how we handle a package that is faulty, not as described, or not what you ordered.

Do we get future updates?

You keep the version you bought for as long as you use it, and corrections to that version are made available to you. A new edition, for example following a significant change in the law, may be sold separately.

More answers on the home page, or contact us.

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