Psychological harm risk assessment tool

What is psychological harm

Psychological harm refers to a negative impact on a person’s mental health and wellbeing. In a workplace, there are many factors that can have either a positive or negative effect on employees’ psychological health. These psychosocial factors can be harmful if they contribute to stress, anxiety, injury, or other negative outcomes.

How Radius helps

Radius is a custom-built tool that assesses the risk of psychological harm related to 18 job-specific psychosocial factors. It helps organizations recognize hazards and create plans to control them. With it, you can:

• evaluate risk of psychological harm at the job level
• collaborate across all levels in your organization to identify risk and create actionable solutions
• monitor the progress of job-specific action plans
• inform risk mitigation strategies to keep your workplace and workers safe

To access the tool, all you have to do is create an account.

When you should use Radius

• use it to proactively assess and address risk areas
• if high rates of worker injury (physical or psychological) are reported
• if high rates of absence (sick time, short or long-term disability) are reported
• if workers are disengaged or there is poor team morale
• when specific concerns arise at the job level

Benefits of assessing job-based risk

• creates awareness of psychosocial factors and related risk of harm
• supports conformance with the CSA Z1003 standard for psychological health and safety in the workplace
• determines if existing control measures are adequate or if future controls are required
• prevents injuries or illnesses through job design and planning
• informs the development of safe work practices