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Redesigning work for isolated and over-worked workers

Redesigning work to eliminate psychosocial risks can involve making a series of small changes that improve work in concert, under a process that must be integrated into decision-making throughout a company, including among its accountants and finance officers, a safety expert says.

University of NSW Associate Professor Carlo Caponecchia says that new WHS regulations across Australia have "elevated" existing requirements on PCBUs to tackle psychosocial risks, with the changes emphasising their duties to control the way work is organised, supervised and managed, as well as where and how it's done...