Description

The Regulatory Reality

Psychological injury is now the fastest-growing category of workplace compensation claims in Australia and comparable jurisdictions. Regulators have responded. Australia’s WHS Act 2011, Safe Work Australia’s Code of Practice (2022), and ISO 45003:2021 — the first international standard dedicated to psychological health and safety at work — are unambiguous: hazard elimination and control, not symptom management, is the legal obligation.

Leaders who understand that bullying creates liability but have not yet grasped that workload design, role ambiguity, management behaviour, and organisational culture also create liability have not registered the full scope of their duty.

What the Evidence Actually Says

Karasek’s Demand-Control model. Johnson and Hall’s social support extension. Siegrist’s Effort-Reward Imbalance model. Bakker and Demerouti’s Job Demands-Resources framework. Over four decades of research converge on one point: the conditions that produce psychological injury are structural. They are built into the way work is designed, managed, and led.

Work Without Harm translates that evidence into a practical framework you can apply in your organisation right now.

What’s Included

Eight self-paced modules covering:

• The science of psychosocial risk — what it is, what causes it, and why conventional approaches miss the point
• Your legal obligations under Australian and international frameworks
• Hazard identification — mapping the specific conditions that create risk in your workplace
• Risk assessment using established methodologies
• The hierarchy of controls applied to psychosocial hazards
• Leadership behaviour as a risk factor — and as a control
• Culture, psychological safety, and organisational conditions
• Defensible decision-making: how to demonstrate you understood the risk and acted on it

Each module includes a knowledge check quiz. The course closes with a 25-question Final Assessment (80% pass mark, 45 minutes).

You also receive:

• The Work Without Harm Student Guide — a comprehensive reference document you keep after the course
• Six case study videos drawn from real workplace incidents and prosecutions across Australian and international jurisdictions
• A certificate of completion on passing the Final Assessment

Who This Is For

Leaders, HR professionals, health and safety practitioners, and anyone with formal or informal responsibility for designing work, managing people, or making decisions that affect working conditions. If you have a duty of care — and most people in organisations do — this course is for you.

About Tom Bourne

Tom Bourne is a practitioner, not an academic. His work sits at the intersection of evidence, law, and leadership accountability. He has spent years working with organisations on psychosocial risk management, leadership behaviour, and the systemic conditions that either create or prevent workplace harm. Work Without Harm distils that work into a structured, evidence-based course with immediate practical application.

This is not a wellness programme. It is a risk management course built for people who take their legal obligations seriously and want to do the work properly.