1st Edition
Well-being and Wellness Psychosocial Risk Management
Well-being and Wellness: Psychosocial Risk Management is a companion to Health and Safety: Risk Management, which describes the techniques and background knowledge for preventing injury and ill health in the workplace. This book instead describes the techniques and background knowledge for preventing impairment of worker well-being and wellness.
These techniques differ from those required for the prevention of injury and ill health because of the need to take into account individual differences in susceptibility to psychosocial risk sources, and the fact that psychosocial risk sources can provide opportunities as well as threats. The book is in divided into two parts: Part 1 describes the required background knowledge, including the nature of psychosocial harms to individuals, what can trigger these harms, and what can be done to mitigate these harms, and also deals with the necessary psychological background and the role of individual differences in reactions to psychosocial risk sources. Part 2 describes an outline psychosocial management system based on the ISO 45001 specification and the guidance in ISO 45002 and ISO 45003. However, the nature of the psychosocial risk sources being dealt with means that the ISO 45001 requirements must be extended in a number of ways, for example by having threat and opportunity assessment rather than risk assessment.
Written primarily for OH&S professionals who wish to extend the scope of their management system to include well-being and wellness issues, the book is also directly beneficial to human resources (HR) professionals who have responsibility for managing psychosocial hazards such as bullying and harassment. Additionally, it can be understood and applied by managers in all sectors who want to improve the well-being and wellness of their team, and will be relevant reading for students on OH&S, HR or management courses.
1.Preliminaries Part 1 - The background information 2. Part 1 overview 3. The harms 4. The disorders 5. The hazards and risk sources 6. The elimination and control 7. The triggers 8. The improvers 9. The psychology 10. The people 11. The psychosocial management system terminology 12. The documented information Part 2 - The practicalities 13. Part 2 overview 14. What is already in place? 15. Purpose, intended outcomes, scope, policy and psychosocial objectives 16. Needs and expectations 17. The psychosocial management system manual 18. SWOT analysis 19. Consultation and participation 20. Competences 21. Awareness and communication 22. Psychosocial risk sources 23. Psychosocial threat and opportunity assessment 24. Psychosocial threat and opportunity management 25. Psychosocial measurement, analysis and evaluation 26. Psychosocial monitoring, auditing, nonconformity, correction and corrective action 27. Psychosocial investigation 28. The role of top management 29. Management review 30. Psychosocial planning and continual improvement 31. Change, procurement and emergencies 32. The psychosocial management system development plan
Biography
Tony Boyle was a freelance consultant specialising in research and development aspects of health and safety. He has extensive consultancy, lecturing and training experience in Europe and has also worked in Hong Kong, Thailand and the USA. Tony is a Chartered Fellow of IOSH, a Chartered Psychologist, a Registered Occupational Psychologist and a Certified Risk Professional. He has held various occupational safety and occupational psychology research and lecturing posts. Until 1998 he was chairman of the health and safety consultancy Hastam and remained a non-executive director of the company until 2022.
Fiona Charlton has more than 20 years’ experience in operational and strategic health and safety positions. She holds a masters in occupational health and safety from Queens University, Belfast and a professional doctorate from Sunderland University that examined the impact of workplace cultures on health and safety management. Fiona continues to work full-time in the private sector, is a Chartered Member of IOSH, and sits on viva panels for doctoral students at Sunderland University.
