From December 1, 2025, Victorian employers must treat psychological health like any other safety risk. The new Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations 2025 and Psychological Health Compliance Code require employers to identify psychosocial hazards, control the risks and keep those controls working, so far as reasonably practicable.

With new regulations in place, it’s time to make managing psychosocial hazards a top business priority

With new regulations in place, it’s time to make managing psychosocial hazards a top business priority

Gavin Morse

For employers in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and other jurisdictions that have already introduced psychosocial hazard duties and codes of practice, this is less a new idea and more a reminder that the real work now is about everyday human behaviour, not just a legal checkbox.