Psychosocial safety
Alternative labels
Psychosocial hazards
Guide
Taking action guide: prevention of violence against women with disabilities
Women with disabilities experience the same kinds of violence experienced by other women but they also experience ‘disability-based violence.’ This guide provides information to increase awareness, skills, knowledge, and confidence to implement prevention of violence against women strategies in their workplace.
Discussion paper
NDIS participant safeguarding proposals paper
NDIS participants have the same right to safety as other members of the community, including when they use supports and services. This proposals paper provides information about what the NDIS Review has learned so far on NDIS Participant Safeguarding, and seeks feedback on its ideas to improve safeguards for participants.
Policy
Participant safeguarding policy
This policy document outlines the NDIA's commitment to support people with disability who engage with the NDIS to create or expand safeguards to improve their safety and minimise the risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Article
Psychosocial safety is everyone’s right and everyone’s responsibility
Psychosocial hazards in the workplace such as harassment, bullying and poorly managed supervision and training can result in stress, burnout and worse. This article outlines some of the laws and organisational cultural changes that can help identify, assess and eliminate or mitigate psychosocial hazards and risks.
Report
Own Motion Inquiry into Aspects of Supported Accommodation: inquiry report
The purpose of this inquiry was to enable the NDIS Commissioner to identify trends in issues that are occurring in supported accommodation, what is causing those issues, and how the NDIS Commission can use its powers to support the delivery of higher standards of support in these settings.