Safety and Wellbeing Audits Against ISO45003 and People-Based Organisational Strategic Objectives - Glia Psychologists
Safety Audits and Wellbeing Assessments help organisations check the processes they put in place are working. We at Glia provide External Auditors and Evalutors to check in and see what your organisation is doing well and where your opportunity areas are when it comes to protecting peoples’s Mental Health.
Mental Health Risk Factors and Stressors in the workplace have been identified as a major contemporary challenge for organisations over the following decade, and in order for us to protect our people we must think of risk management not only in the ‘Physical’ sense, but also in the Psychological sense and the Social Sense.
It is now a legal imperative to support our people from psychosocial, wellbeing, and mental health in the workplace. Legislation in New Zealand implies risks / hazards need to be addressed to protect mental health, with legislation in New South Wales and Queensland (Australia) stating that psychosocial risks in the workplace need to be eliminated or minimised. A new ISO standard ISO 45003 has also been developed to help orgaisations meeting their obligations when it comes to the psychological health of those at work. Psychological health consulting is now very in demand due to these changes.
SAFETY AND WELLBEING AUDIT & RECOMMENDATIONS- AXON
Glia’s AUDIT Management Tool, AXON, aims to connect organisations with their people to better understand and support Hauora WELL-BEING / mental health.
Axon uses a range of evidenced-based well-being practices to approach the audit and assessment process strategically: Just like axons in the brain, AXON connects psychological health across different areas (business units) and the entire brain itself (the organisation).
AXON allows us to provide external an external audit and assessment function which helps organisations understand how they are going against ISO45003 and People-Based Organisational Strategic Objectives.
It can be done at a range of levels and is designed to scale up and scale down as you need.
Far from just another survey (let’s be honest, who is sick of those?!), our audit and assessment tool AXON allows us to work directly with your people to really understand what their needs are, or understand the policies and procedures you have in place that protect your people at work. Your organisation can then put in place not only measure how you are going against your strategic safety and wellbeing workplan, but against the recommendations set out in the ISO45003 standards. Our psychological health consultants essentially capture the voice and narrative of the people within your organisation.
It is the duty of all organisations to ensure that risks in both domains are assessed and controlled.
No need to panic! If you are thinking how on earth do I tackle this whole safety and wellbeing audit process in your workplace, no need to worry as we’ve got you! We have been supporting organisations with workplace safety and well-being and psychological health consulting for many years and we make sure we keep up with the latest research and developments in this area. This includes the latest ISO standard IS0 45003 in which we have been trained in. We actually started developing AXON long before the changes in legislation reached the legislative shores and the ISO45003 standard was created. So AXON is very tried and tested and it takes out all the hard work out of auditing and assessing for you (and potentially stress, we definitely don’t want you to stress over how to manage stress!). We will work with you using one of our very talented AXON-trained psychologists to give you and your people peace of mind. We love psychological health, it is our jam!
