Psychosocial Risk Managem

Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

Gender Microaggression - What is it, and how does it impact women at work?

During a panel discussion of women leaders that I recently attended, the panelists were asked ‘what do you consider to be your biggest achievement?’

Without exception, every panelist responded ‘just surviving.’ One added ‘just managing to get to where she was.’ They gave the sense of having managed to move forward and reach their goals, but of having to perpetually push through a current, whilst dragging a parachute, to do so.

What was holding them back and how can we recognise gender discrimination in the modern workplace?

One Way to Manage Psychosocial Hazards for Women in the Workplace

One Way to Manage Psychosocial Hazards for Women in the Workplace

International Women’s Day 2023 has been and gone but the challenges that women face to experiencing equity in the workplace remain.

What are those challenges, and what would an environment that successfully controls for psychosocial hazards at work that particularly impact women look like?

Psychosocial Hazards and Community Trauma

Psychosocial Hazards and Community Trauma

When Psychosocial Hazards are outside your control, but are impacting your people, what can you do?

What if everyone at work is dealing with the same trauma simultaneously? How can leaders equip themselves to support their people through traumatic events that are impacting entire communities?

Psychosocial Risk Management and the Three Ghosts of Christmas

Psychosocial Risk Management and the Three Ghosts of Christmas

The weather is bitter, the poorhouses and the prisons are full, and a money-hungry employer is keeping a shrewd eye on the company’s heating bill while his overworked and shivering clerk tries to remain optimistic in the face of inflation.

The year is 1843, but it could as easily be 2022.