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Psychological Risk Assessment
Psychosocial appropriateness for a job type, assessed at the level of the work and at the level of the person.
What this is
This assessment considers whether a person is psychosocially appropriate for a job type. It identifies the occupational hazards present in the work, and it assesses individual resilience for that job type. Where it is appropriate, particularly following absence or where someone is on modified or alternative duties, it can extend to a personal health risk assessment.
The Health and Safety Executive developed psychological risk assessment in 2004, by building on the established model for physical risk assessment. Many health and safety professionals remain uncomfortable assessing psychosocial risk. Our position is straightforward: the risk still has to be managed, internally or externally, rather than avoided.
The Health and Safety Executive Management Standards. Equal segments: no weighting is implied and no figure is shown.
Who this is for
What it assesses
- Occupational hazards across Demands, Control, Change, Role, Relationships and Support, as a minimum.
- Individual resilience for the job type in question.
- Personal risks, including personality and resilience.
- Personal health risk, where an extension to that is appropriate.
When employers use it
- Where psychosocial appropriateness for a job type needs to be established.
- Following a period of absence.
- Where someone is on modified or alternative duties.
- Where an organisation has no internal capability to assess psychosocial risk.
What you receive
- Identification of the occupational hazards present, across the Management Standards areas as a minimum.
- An assessment of individual resilience for the job type.
- A personal health risk assessment where the scope has been extended to include one.
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