Celebrating the finalists: Best Team Collaboration for Psychosocial Safety

Psychosocial safety doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s built when teams come together with a shared commitment, a clear strategy and want genuine collaboration to create change.

The Best Team Collaboration in Psychosocial Safety Award recognises cross-functional teams working together to embed psychosocial safety across the organisation. It includes P&C, WHS and leadership collaborating to implement controls that improve the safety and wellbeing of their workplace.

On Thursday 10 September we recognised 6 finalists and 1 winner - find out more about them below.

Meet the Finalists

Ausgrid Psychosocial Working Group

Ausgrid established a multidisciplinary working group bringing together Safety, People Partnering, Organisational Development, Change Management, Health and Wellbeing, Workers Compensation and Operations. Supported by executive sponsorship, the group uses shared decision-making to deliver a whole-of-business approach to psychosocial risk management, embedded within Ausgrid’s Health and Safety Strategy.

Find out more about their nomination here

Clarence Valley Council

The Safety and Wellbeing Team worked across the organisation and with external partners to deliver its annual Health and Wellbeing Expo. Collaboration included the Executive team, HS Committee, SafeWork NSW, NSW Health, EAP providers and local mental health services, with the Expo providing staff with practical resources, information and access to support.

Find out more about their nomination here

Queensland Police Service

Queensland Police Service established a Cross Functional Coordination Team to bring different perspectives together when responding to psychosocial hazards and risks. Coordinated by the Psychosocial Safety Team, the team addresses identified risks while also examining organisational systems, processes and practices that may be contributing to them.

Find out more about their nomination here

Revenue NSW

They brought together executive leadership, Operational Excellence, Education and Advisory, WHS, Risk and Resilience, and business units to deliver a coordinated approach to psychosocial risk. The work combined a Psychological Safety Learning and Development Program with a formal psychosocial risk assessment process.

Find out more about their nomination here

Wellness in Infrastructure Working Group

The Wellness in Infrastructure Working Group brings together more than 70 volunteers across 48 organisations in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia to develop industry-wide tools and programs informed by research and psychosocial risk data.

Find out more about their nomination here

And the Winner is…

Tweed Shire Council

Tweed Shire Council developed Part of your everyday, a staff-led initiative addressing public aggression and unreasonable conduct towards Council staff. A cross-functional working group of 10 staff from HR, WHS and Communications, supported by a frontline focus group of 13 staff, co-designed the campaign using staff experience to help reshape community attitudes.

Find out more about their nomination:

Meet the Judges

The Independent Judging Panel for this category were:

Kana'e Dyas is a multi-award-winning WHS and HR executive with 30 years of global experience across the resources sector. As the founder of Alchemy Workplace Solutions, she has pioneered award-winning programs in trauma-informed psychosocial safety, mental health, suicide prevention and inclusive wellbeing.

Spencer McCabe is Director of Insurer Supervision at the NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA), overseeing 78 insurers operating in the NSW workers compensation system. With 25+ years of experience across injury management, insurance and regulation in the UK and Australia, he brings a systems-level understanding of what happens when psychosocial risk is not properly managed.

Blyde Neser is the driving force behind Professional Coaching Solutions, specialising in workplace culture transformation and helping organisations unlock the full potential of their teams through holistic, human-centred leadership.

Thank you to Professional Coaching Solutions who sponsored the Teamwork category.