Harm By Design: Psychosocial Risk Management at Work

Work is a human system-and it can harm people long before anyone calls it ＂risk.＂

This book gives leaders, safety professionals and organisations a practical way to see how psychosocial harm is produced-and how to stop outsourcing it to individuals.

Using the 4D Human Work System-Design, Demands, Dynamics and Defences-you’ll learn how to move beyond wellbeing theatre and build controls that actually reduce exposure. It shows why two teams can face the same workload and still have wildly different outcomes, how leadership behaviour under pressure becomes a primary hazard, and why support programs alone cannot compensate for broken work.

You’ll get a clear, credible approach to assessment, control design, monitoring and governance, plus guidance for emerging realities like remote work, algorithmic management, precarious employment, climate stress and crisis-facing roles.

If you’re ready to design work people can live with-year after year-this is your playbook.