Psychosocial Risk Advisory for Melbourne & Australian Business.
Every business in Australia now has a legal duty to identify, control, and review psychosocial hazards. Safeground Advisory delivers end-to-end psychosocial hazard consulting. We conduct comprehensive workplace risk assessments, build auditable risk registers, and serve as your ongoing retained adviser. Based in Parkville, we provide direct on-site consultation across Greater Melbourne and strategic advisory across Australia.
27 Royal Parade, ParkvilleHealthcare, NDIS and allied healthFixed price audits from $6,900
Psychosocial risk used to sit under wellbeing programs. Now it sits under the law. Regulators expect the same structured, documented approach you already apply to physical safety. Most businesses have written a policy. Very few could show an inspector a working system behind it.
Victoria. The Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations 2025 took effect on 1 December 2025, alongside a WorkSafe Compliance Code.
New South Wales. The WHS Regulation 2025 replaced the 2017 version, and since August 2025 the hierarchy of control must be applied to psychosocial risks.
Since 1 July 2026. Approved NSW codes of practice are binding benchmarks, not guidance, under section 26A of the WHS Act.
Every state. The national direction is identical: proactive, documented, ongoing management of psychosocial hazards.
The message from regulators is simple, and it changes everything for your business. An employee assistance program does not count as a control. A wellness newsletter does not count either. Nor does a single training day.
The regulation requires businesses to use higher order controls. That means redesigning how work is done and addressing structural causes, then reviewing those controls and keeping evidence that you did so.
Safe Work Australia · model code of practice
What that requires is not a product. It is a person who understands your workplace, maintains your records, responds when something happens, and can stand behind your business if the regulator asks what you did.
Twelve questions, scored instantly against the four step process regulators expect: identify, assess, control and review. It runs entirely in your browser, asks for no details, and gives you a written position you can keep.
Safeground is led by Jonathan Riley. He works with owners, boards, executive teams and people leaders on the psychosocial hazards that now sit squarely inside their legal duties under the Work Health and Safety Act.
His background combines organisational psychology, workplace investigations and regulatory compliance. He has advised on the design of psychosocial risk frameworks, led hazard identification and control processes aligned to the Safe Work Australia model code of practice, and worked directly with leadership teams to close the gap between a compliant policy on paper and a workplace that actually functions differently day to day.
That combination is what separates a genuine risk management response from a wellbeing initiative. The real test is not whether the paperwork looks right after the fact. It is whether people in the room make different choices because of it.
03 Where to begin
Most businesses start with an audit
You do not need to commit to ongoing support straight away. The right starting point is a psychosocial risk audit, which gives you an accurate picture of where your business currently stands. It is delivered as a formal risk register together with a practical action plan, ready to present to a regulator if you are ever asked.
Pricing is fixed based on your number of employees (starting at $6,900), so you'll know the exact requirements and cost upfront. If you want ongoing retainer support afterward, we can arrange that, but there's zero obligation.
Beyond the audit, you are not buying sessions by the hour. You are retaining ongoing coverage: a maintained risk register, availability for your people, incident response, quarterly workshops, and the documentation that proves your business is meeting its duty.
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The responsibility already sits with your business. The question is who shares it alongside you.
A first conversation is private and carries no obligation. We work out where your business stands against the new regulations and whether an audit, a retainer, or neither is the right fit.
