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Psychological health is part of your health and safety duty, not separate from it. The good news is you manage psychosocial risk the same way you manage any other hazard – identify it, assess it, control it, and review it. HazardCo gives you the tools to do that across the App, the Hub, your safety plans, and the Advisory Team.

Here’s where to find each piece

1. Your site specific safety plan (SSSP / WHSMP)

Your site-specific safety plan is the home base for how you manage psychosocial hazards on a project. When you build a plan in the Hub, you can record the psychosocial hazards relevant to your work and the controls you’ve put in place, things like how workloads are managed, how supervision works, and how people are expected to treat each other on site.

Start here if you want a written record of your approach that you can show clients, principal contractors, or a regulator.

2. Risk Assessments (App or Hub)

The step-by-step Risk Assessment in the App walks you through identifying a hazard, rating the risk, and choosing controls using the hierarchy of controls. Use it to assess a specific psychosocial hazard, for example high job demands during a tight programme, or an isolated worker arrangement and capture what you’re doing about it.

Each assessment is saved as a digital report, so you have proof of when you looked at the risk and what you decided.

3. Toolbox Meetings (App)

Toolbox Meetings are one of the simplest ways to bring psychosocial topics into everyday conversation. Run a toolbox talk on workload, fatigue, respectful behaviour on site, or how to raise a concern. The App captures who attended and what was discussed, which gives you a record that you’re consulting your crew.

Regular, short conversations do more for psychological safety than a one-off policy document and they’re easy to log.

4. Tasks (App)

HazardCo Tasks let anyone on site flag an issue and send it to the right person to fix. This isn’t only for physical hazards. A worker can raise a concern about something affecting psychological health for example,  an unreasonable deadline, a conflict, an isolated work setup and send it to a supervisor or manager. Tasks give your team a low-friction way to speak up.

5. Incident Reports (App)

If someone reports a psychological injury, or a psychosocial incident occurs, use the Incident Report in the App. It alerts the Advisory Team directly, and they’ll step you through your obligations and what to do next. Treat a psychological injury the same way you’d treat a physical one,  report it, support the person, and review your controls.

6. The Advisory Team (Phone support)

This is the part people forget. As a HazardCo member, you can call the Advisory Team for advice. If you’re dealing with a tricky situation like a bullying complaint, a worker showing signs of distress, or you’re just not sure what your duty is, just pick up the phone before it escalates. They’ve seen these situations before and can talk you through a practical next step.

7. The Knowledge Base and blog (Hub and website)

For background reading, the HazardCo blog and help articles cover what psychosocial hazards are, why they matter, and practical steps to reduce them on site. Use these to brief yourself or to share with your team.

Quick reference

The short version

You don’t need a separate system for psychological health. Your safety plan sets your approach, Risk Assessments work through specific hazards, Toolbox Meetings and Tasks keep your crew involved, Incident Reports handle the hard moments, and the Advisory Team is there when you need a hand. Same process, same tools, just applied to the risks you can’t always see.

Not sure where to start? Give our Advisory Team a call. That’s what they’re here for.