SafeWork’s psychosocial push is a good sign for our industry
SafeWork NSW has stepped up its focus on psychosocial safety across construction, with its largest compliance operation on the topic to date. I’ll say it plainly: this is a good thing, and a sign of an industry moving in the right direction.
For a long time, the unwritten rule on many sites was to keep your head down and get on with it. If something wasn’t right, like too much pressure or a crew stretched past what’s reasonable, you learned not to say so. That’s changing, and it should.
I want to be part of an industry where working safely includes being able to say when conditions aren’t, and where nobody feels they’ll be marked down for it. Not a blame culture, but a confident one, where being heard is part of how a good site runs.
That belief is why I’ve been building WatchWell. Give every worker, your crews and your subcontractors alike, a protected way to be heard, and help the industry learn what makes a workforce safer, stronger and more productive. Never about any one person. Always about what works.
By David Montgomery, founder of WatchWell
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