Psychological Safety
The moment has shifted. Psychological safety is now a WHS obligation, not just a cultural aspiration.
Recent legislative changes now require organisations to identify and manage psychosocial hazards as part of their WHS obligations, placing them alongside physical risks. This marks a significant change in how risk is understood and governed at work.
For boards and executives, the implication is clear: oversight must now extend beyond visible hazards to include how work is designed, paced, supported and sustained.
The organisations that respond well will not add complexity — they will gain earlier visibility.
A practical vantage point on psychological safety
Psychological safety rarely emerges first through formal reports or complaints.
More often, it becomes visible through patterns in fatigue, recovery, and recurring injury, signals that reflect how work is experienced day to day.
Summit Industry Health is present in workplaces through onsite physiotherapy, working with employees during injury management and recovery.
Why Summit is well placed
Our practitioners have regular, ongoing contact with employees over time. This creates visibility of patterns that are not about individuals, but about systems of work.
We see when workload interferes with recovery, when pace exceeds capacity, and when support structures are not holding as intended. These indicators typically emerge well before issues escalate into formal processes.
Where others rely on lag indicators, this work occurs upstream.
From observation to insight
Summit translates these observations into aggregated, de-identified insights that provide leaders with a clearer view of psychosocial risk from a work design perspective.​
Each month, organisations receive a concise snapshot that outlines:​
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where psychosocial pressures are most evident
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whether indicators are stabilising, increasing or easing
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and which aspects of work design may warrant attention
The focus is on patterns and trends, not incidents or individuals.
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Why Businesses engage Summit
Boards and executive teams work with Summit because we:
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operate close to the lived experience of work
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provide insight before issues escalate
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understand the boundaries between care, risk and governance
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and deliver clarity without adding organisational burden
This is not about doing more. It is about seeing sooner and acting with judgement.
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