1 July 2024 Deadline: Is Your Business WHS Psychosocial Compliant?

Upcoming WHS Psychosocial Law Changes: Are You Prepared?

Recent updates to Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws have brought significant changes, particularly around managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace. These new regulations vary across states and require immediate action to ensure compliance and maintain a healthy work environment with a looming 1 July deadline.

What Are Psychosocial Hazards?
Psychosocial hazards are elements of work and management that can lead to stress and harm workers' mental and physical health. These can stem from poor workplace relationships, high job demands, and insufficient support. Effectively managing these risks is essential for a productive workplace.

Urgent Compliance Requirements:
Significant changes to WHS laws are already in effect, and there's an urgent deadline approaching on 1 July 2024. Here's what you need to know:

April 2023 Updates:
The Commonwealth Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 have been revised to focus more on identifying and managing psychosocial risks. 

September 2023 Changes:
The Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2022 brought critical updates:

• Expanded offences to include negligence
• Banned insurance for monetary penalties
• Increased inspector powers
• Extended prosecution request deadlines
• New training options for Health and Safety Representatives

July 2024 Deadline: The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Act 2023 introduces severe penalties, including up to $18 million fines for corporations and 25 years in jail for individuals.

What Does This Mean for Your Organisation?
You must act now to ensure your organisation is compliant by 1 July 2024. This involves:

• Establishing safe work systems
• Creating mentally healthy work environments
• Providing adequate training and resources
• Monitoring worker health and workplace condition

Non-compliance can lead to severe penalties, including hefty fines and imprisonment.

How can we help?
To be compliant, you first need to be able to answer the question: “Where are we now?". REACH can help you answer that question using Psychosocial and Safety surveys.

How long will it take?
From a system perspective, we can have you live in as little as 10 minutes.

 What will I get?

• A customised survey that will assess all of the critical scores to ensure you are compliant
• An email communications template to communicate with the workforce
• Powerful demographic heat mapping and reporting
• AI-powered sentiment analysis and themes analysis
• The ability to drill down to identify where needs require most focus
• Prioritised plan with AI-delivered ‘where to focus’ and ‘actions to take’

How much will it cost?
$990 – Includes up to 90 minutes of customisation and implementation support, as well as ‘actions to take’ report. 

Upgrade options:
Do It All for Me! ($1,595 extra) – We’ll handle everything for you, including customisation, communications, follow ups, reporting, presentations, debriefs, etc. You get the outcomes without the effort.

2-Year Peace of Mind ($495 extra) – Buy two years upfront and get the second year half price.

Don't wait until it's too late. Contact us today to learn how our software can simplify compliance.

Call our expert team on 1300 92 29 29 or click here to make a time to talk and find out more.