Psychosocial Hazard Risk Register or Risk Assessment

Psychosocial hazard registers and risk assessments kept by a person conducting a business or undertaking under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld) Part 3.2 Division 11 (s 55A meaning of psychosocial hazard, s 55B meaning of psychosocial risk, s 55C duty to manage psychosocial risks, s 55D determining control measures) and the Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work Code of Practice 2022 (in force 1 April 2023). Register rows record a hazard (job demands, low job control, poor support, aggression from customers, remote or isolated work), a risk rating, controls and an owner for a team or work area. Most rows are aggregate; the higher tier is reserved for rows that identify an affected worker or link a complaint, grievance or claim. The Code's own text and example register, blank registers and training material are decoys. Complements au-workplace-harassment-psychosocial-complaint, which covers individual complaints.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the WHS Regulation Division 11 terms and the Code of Practice vocabulary are distinctive, and a populated rating plus hazard or control field separates a working register from guidance, but the Code itself publishes an example risk register with the same columns and training decks reproduce it, so guidance and training wording is excluded and blank fields are placeholder-guarded. Most registers are aggregate (team or work-area level), so 85 is reserved for rows that identify a worker or link a complaint, grievance or claim. Employee and complaint number formats are organisation-defined and loosely shaped. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld), Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work Code of Practice 2022 (Qld), Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: employment, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 6
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\bpsychosocial\s+(?:hazards?|risks?|safety|health\s+and\s+safety)\s+(?:(?:and\s+control\s+)?registers?|(?:risk\s+)?assessments?|identification|logs?|matrix|matrices|profiles?|(?:action|management|control)\s+plans?)\b|\b(?:WHS|risk|hazard)\s+register\s*[:-]\s*psychosocial\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

psychosocial hazard, psychosocial risk, risk rating, likelihood, consequence, control measures, risk owner, affected worker

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Psychosocial risk register - Customer Contact Centre Hazard: exposure to aggressive and abusive callers Risk rating: High Controls: call escalation procedure, debrief after critical calls, EAP referral Affected worker: Jordan Teston (complaint ref: GR-2026-0144) Risk owner: Casey Testwell, Contact Centre Manager Review date: 30/10/2026 — Register row with hazard, rating, controls, owner and a named affected worker linked to a complaint (85 tier)
Psychosocial hazard assessment - Fleet workshop Hazard: poor organisational change management Residual risk rating: Medium Employee number: 208871 raised concerns during restructure consultation; linked grievance number: GRV/2026/031 Action owner: Riley Teston — Assessment row linking an employee number and grievance to the hazard (85 tier)
Psychosocial risk assessment - Corporate Services Hazard: high job demands during end of financial year Likelihood: likely Consequence: moderate Controls: workload review, temporary staff, flexible start times Risk owner: Director Corporate Services — Aggregate team-level register row with rating, controls and owner, no individual (75 tier)
WHS register - psychosocial Hazard: remote or isolated work at pump stations Risk score: 12 Target date: 15/12/2026 — Register row with hazard, numeric score and target date (75 tier)

Should not match

This Code provides practical guidance on managing psychosocial risks. Appendix C sets out an example risk register. Hazard: high job demands; Likelihood: likely; Risk rating: high; Controls: review workloads with workers and their representatives; Owner: supervisor. A psychosocial risk assessment should be reviewed when controls change. — Code of Practice text with its example register (excluded)
Psychosocial hazard register Hazard: ______________ Risk rating: [High / Medium / Low] Controls: ______________ Risk owner: ______________ Affected worker: ______________ — Blank register (65 only)
Slide 6 - Psychosocial risk assessment in practice Learning outcomes: identify hazards, rate risks, choose controls. Hazard: poor support from supervisors Risk rating: Medium Controls: regular one-on-one check-ins with team members — Training slide with an illustrative row (excluded)
Inspectors issued improvement notices after finding the hospital had no psychosocial risk assessment for its emergency department staff. — News about a missing assessment (65 only)

Known false positives

The Code of Practice, WorkSafe guidance and Safe Work Australia material, including the Code's example risk register. Mitigation: Guidance exclusion on this Code / this Code of Practice / example risk register; enforce tiers need populated rating and hazard or control fields.
Training decks and workshop exercises that fill in an illustrative register row. Mitigation: Excluded on learning outcomes, facilitator notes, training module, workshop activity, case study and the shared template-exclusion dictionary.
Individual harassment or bullying complaints that mention a psychosocial risk assessment. Mitigation: These rarely carry a rating field; they are covered by au-workplace-harassment-psychosocial-complaint.
Genuine registers that cite the Code by the words "this Code" (for example in a quoted requirement). Mitigation: Suppressed within the 300-character window; accepted false negative.