Sector Insights
Psychosocial risk in aged care, construction, healthcare, government and contracting.
The site review that couldn’t find a safety failure — and the warning signs nobody acted on
A mature physical-safety system is built to find a broken control — a missing barrier, a failed lockout, a skipped permit. It is not built to find a…
When “that’s dementia” becomes the supervision response — and what it’s costing your facility
When a worker reports being assaulted by a resident and the in-charge answers "that's dementia", the response has done something measurable: it has…
When 87% of your ED nurses have been assaulted by a patient — and your wellbeing program still hasn’t changed
87% of nurses surveyed report experiencing patient-related violence (College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, cited Edith Cowan University, 2024) — and…
$1.75 billion in five years: what the NSW Auditor-General told the police force about its own wellbeing program
The NSW Auditor-General found that psychological injury claims made up 74% of NSW Police workers compensation costs over five years to June 2024 — roughly…
The Black Dog finding the aged care sector hasn’t acted on
The Black Dog Institute found 56% of residential aged care workers report elevated burnout, 35% anxiety symptoms and 24% probable depression (npj Mental…
Counselling after the incident, no prevention before it: the gap the NSW Audit Office named
The NSW Auditor-General looked at one of the country's most-resourced wellbeing programs and found it does the wrong thing well: it provides counselling…