Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion
9:30 am
Dr. Adrienne Duff:
It includes bullying and work-related stress. We recently held two webinars where we had over 600 attendees and these were about managing conflict in the workplace and trying to mitigate conflict arising in the workplace by taking one step back to prevent it happening. We also focus on education and as part of our e-learning, we have included psychosocial risks and hazards in our short awareness-raising courses so that employers and employees can take these courses and begin to identify and deal with psychosocial risks and hazards. We also have two online tools. One is called WorkpositiveCI which enables employers to carry out a psychosocial risk assessment in their workplace. Then we are building out for smaller businesses, SMEs, our BeSMART online tool which again will enable risk assessments to be developed considering psychosocial risks.