Insights & Intelligence: Navigating Modern Workplace Risks
Queensland Has Quietly Rewritten Procurement - and Most Businesses Aren’t Ready
Queensland has quietly reshaped government procurement, making Domestic & Family Violence (DFV) capability a measurable requirement in 2025–26 tenders. With DFV and psychosocial safety weighted at up to 20% in some evaluations, organisations must now demonstrate real operational readiness - not just policy. This article breaks down what changed, what procurement teams expect, and where most suppliers are unprepared.
What Psychosocial Safety Actually Means Under Australian WHS Law (2024–2025)
Psychosocial safety is now a core WHS obligation. This article breaks down what the law defines as a psychosocial hazard, why it carries the same legal weight as physical harm, and what employers must do to stay compliant in 2025.
Safety Assist in Action: When the Threat Follows You Home
When personal threats spill into the workplace, psychosocial risk becomes real. See how Safety Assist turned crisis into protection.
The Fifth Stage: Why Psychosocial Risk Needs More Than Awareness
Psychosocial risk has overtaken physical safety as the biggest challenge facing Australian workplaces. The next evolution of best practice must include an extra stage - Response - bridging prevention and protection in real time.
Why Every Business Needs to Understand the New Psychosocial Safety Laws
Psychosocial safety is now enforceable under WA’s WHS Act.
This one-page cheat sheet breaks down your key legal duties, regulator expectations, and the real-world risks every business must control - from workplace bullying to burnout and violence.
The Psychosocial Shift: Why Support Can’t Wait Until Monday
Some people work in spreadsheets. Others work inside trauma.
In Episode 1 of The Psychosocial Shift, Grant Killen takes Anthony Moorhouse inside the world of frontline domestic and family violence response — and why psychosocial support can’t wait until Monday.
Closing the Gap Between Care and Capability
Some people see crisis from the headlines. Others live it. Grant Killen has spent years responding to domestic and family violence across Australia. Now, through VUCA Risk’s Safety Assist program, he’s helping bridge the gap between care and capability — ensuring businesses can act fast when every moment matters.
When Something Happens to One, It Happens to All
When something happens to an employee, their family feels it too. In our conversation with Will Schofield, we explored how Safety Assist bridges the gap between crisis and care - protecting not just workers, but their loved ones, with insurer-backed support that activates instantly when the unthinkable happens.
A Day in the Life of a People & Culture Manager: Carrying Everyone’s Risk But Their Own
HR leaders are now the first responders to workplace crises - managing violence, trauma, and psychosocial risk in real time. Yet the systems meant to support them only work before or after an incident. VUCA Risk was built to protect the missing middle - the first 48 hours when every decision counts.
People Risk Isn’t One Program, It’s an Ecosystem
Workers’ Comp, EAPs and wellness programs were never built to handle real-time psychosocial crises. With new WHS duties making boards accountable, businesses need a fourth layer of protection. Discover how VUCA Risk bridges the gap with insurer-backed, immediate response when people and brand are at stake.
Another Headline. Another Assault. Why Retail Can’t Ignore Psychosocial Risk Anymore.
WA has become the worst state in Australia for retail crime, with violence against frontline staff now called endemic. As psychosocial safety becomes a legal duty, businesses must move beyond training and EAPs. Learn how insurer-backed crisis response can protect people, brand reputation, and boards from growing legal exposure.
Workers’ Comp Wasn’t Built For This
Workplace risk has changed. The biggest claims aren’t from slips or falls anymore - they’re from domestic violence, stalking, and harassment spilling quietly into the workplace. These psychosocial incidents don’t begin with a claim. They begin with silence. And by the time they escalate, the costs - financial, cultural, reputational - are far greater than most leaders imagine.