Psychosocial safety · for people-managers

The hard conversation,
rehearsed before it's real.

Most managers were never taught how to talk to someone who's overloaded, struggling, or shutting down — so they avoid it, or get it wrong under pressure. Real Talk lets you practise the conversation safely, get honest feedback, and build a record that your organisation is managing psychosocial risk.

Built around the Australian WHS psychosocial hazard duties & Codes of Practice

Practise, don't panic

Step into a realistic conversation with a team member who's not okay. Every choice you make changes how much they open up — just like real life.

Feedback that coaches

A debrief scored against psychological-safety principles — what you did well, what shut the conversation down, and the exact line to try instead.

Evidence for the org

Conversations quietly roll up into a hazard register and training record — the defensible proof leaders need that psychosocial risk is being managed.

High job demands Low support Poor role clarity Conflict Bullying & harassment +10 more

Australian WHS law now requires PCBUs to manage psychosocial hazards — but the duty is discharged (or breached) in everyday manager conversations. Real Talk is where those conversations get practised and recorded.

Choose a conversation

Which one have you been avoiding?

Pick a situation to rehearse. You'll make real choices, see how the other person responds, and get a psychosafety debrief at the end.

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Maya Okafor
Senior Analyst · on your team 2 years
How open Maya feels
Guarded
The situation. Maya's usually sharp, but she's missed two deadlines this fortnight and barely spoke in Monday's stand-up. You've caught her at her desk at 7pm twice this week. You've asked her for a quick chat. She just sat down.
Your debrief
0Psychosafety

What this surfaced

Two psychosocial hazards, now on the record

Based on this conversation, Real Talk flagged the hazards below. In the full product you'd confirm before anything is logged — then it becomes evidence your organisation is meeting its duty to identify, assess, control and review psychosocial risk.

High job demands Low support
Step 1
Identify
Step 2
Assess
Step 3
Control
Step 4
Review
NORTHWIND GROUP · PEOPLE & SAFETY

Psychosocial risk, at a glance

Rolling 90 days ▾
Managers active
47/58
▲ 9 this month
Conversations practised
312
▲ 22%
Hazards surfaced
89
across 11 teams
Actions logged
64
72% actioned

Hazards surfaced by type

Where psychosocial risk is actually showing up — straight from real manager conversations, not an annual survey.

Team risk signals

Blended from conversation frequency, hazard mix & follow-through.

ElevatedClaims Ops14 hazards · 40% actioned
WatchData & Analytics9 hazards · 67% actioned
LowProduct4 hazards · 100% actioned
WatchField Sales11 hazards · 55% actioned
LowFinance3 hazards · 100% actioned
ElevatedContact Centre16 hazards · 38% actioned

Evidence log

Every surfaced hazard and the action taken — timestamped, attributable, and ready for a regulator or an ISO 45003 audit.

DateManagerHazardControl / actionStatus
21 Jul You · Data & Analytics High job demands Henderson deadline reset; intake meeting reassigned; Fri check-in Actioned
19 Jul P. Nguyen · Claims Ops Low support Escalated to workforce planning — team down 2 FTE Open
18 Jul S. Adeyemi · Contact Centre Conflict / poor relationships Mediation scheduled with HR business partner In review
15 Jul J. Fraser · Field Sales Poor role clarity Rewrote position outline; clarified targets in 1:1 Actioned

Illustrative data for this prototype. In production, individual conversation content stays private to the manager — only the hazard type, control and status roll up.