The WPSQ — From Assessment
to Actionable Intelligence.
A science-backed, validated psychometric instrument that measures psychosocial hazards and organisational strengths — giving leaders a complete picture, not half of one. Produces compliance-grade documentation, prioritised action frameworks, and a repeatable baseline for tracking real change.
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Psychosocial Safety Domains
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Repeatable for ongoing tracking
From Data to Decisions
Everything you need to understand risk, prioritise action, and lead with confidence
The WPSQ transforms complex psychosocial data into clear, structured outputs — designed to guide action at every level of your organisation.
- Clear Diagnostic Reporting Visual, structured insights into psychosocial risks, strengths, and organisational trends — all in one place.
- Prioritised Action Plans Know exactly what to address first, what to monitor, and where to focus for maximum impact.
- Compliance-Ready Documentation Board-level reporting aligned with WHS standards — built for governance, audits, and decision-making.
What the WPSQ Actually Measures.
Structured around four validated domains, each independently scored. This granularity is what makes the data actionable — and what separates it from generic engagement surveys.
WHS Compliant
Safe Work Australia ISO 45003:2021
Repeatable
Ongoing pulse tracking
SURVEY INVITE
Your voice shapes your workplace.
Take 8 minutes to complete the Psychosocial Safety Survey. Responses are confidential and inform meaningful workplace improvements.
Leadership Commitment
Measures how clearly leadership values psychological safety and supports it through action, priorities, and decision-making.
Communication
Assesses whether people can speak openly, raise concerns safely, and access clear, relevant information.
Participation
Looks at how involved employees are in decisions that affect their work, wellbeing, and sense of control.
Deliverables
What You Receive From
a WPSQ Deployment.
Structured, decision-ready outputs designed for different audiences — from board governance to frontline managers. Each translates organisational psychology into clear priorities.
01 – REPORT
Comprehensive Hazards & Resource Report
Structured diagnostic report presenting psychosocial hazards, protective resources, and organisational strengths in a clear, visual format. Includes benchmarking against normative data and trend analysis where repeat measurement exists.
Board-ready
Benchmarked
Visual format
Trend analysis
02 – FRAMEWORK
Prioritised Action Framework
Tiered recommendations mapped across primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels. Identifies what to address first, what to monitor, and what strengths to protect — with specific, actionable next steps.
Tiered priorities
Prevention-mapped
Actionable
03 – DOCUMENTATION
Compliance & Risk Documentation
Procurement-ready, executive-grade reporting formatted for governance review, risk committees, and WHS management system integration. Includes hazard identification findings and control measure recommendations aligned to Safe Work Australia frameworks.
WHS-formatted
Prevention-mapped
Procurement-ready
Deliverables
Established Frameworks & Research
Research Framework
Job Demands–Resources Model
The leading model for understanding how job demands and resources interact to produce strain, motivation, and performance outcomes.
Research Framework
Science of Psychology & Wellbeing
Widely validated across 30+ countries, the JD-R model is the science engine that underpins the WPSQ. Along with Self-Determination and other Evidence-based Research Models.
Research Framework
Edmondson Psychological Safety
Harvard’s team-level psychological safety constructs — establishing psychological safety as the primary driver of team performance and learning.
When to Deploy
Six Moments That Call
for Measurement.
The WPSQ is designed for moments where leaders need objective, defensible data — not intuition.
Regulatory Compliance
When your organisation needs to demonstrate proactive psychosocial hazard identification to satisfy WHS obligations under Safe Work Australia’s model regulations.
Post-Incident Response
Following a psychological injury claim, bullying complaint, or significant resignation. The WPSQ provides systematic data on contributing conditions — not just individual circumstances.
Culture Change Baseline
When beginning a transformation program and needing an honest baseline to measure against — or when you need to prove what changed after intervention.
Monitored Effectiveness
Comply with Australian Psychosocial Safety organisations must effectively monitor effectiveness. Use the WPSQ to set baseline then Team Excel Pulse Survey for heat map monitoring.
Annual Governance & Reporting
Boards in healthcare, financial services, and government are increasingly expected to demonstrate systematic psychological safety monitoring as part of their duty of care obligations.
Leadership Development Anchoring
When deploying a leadership program and wanting to connect individual leader growth to measurable cultural outcomes. The WPSQ shows whether behaviour change is producing cultural shift.
The Science Behind Our Approach
WPSQ Assessment Model
Organisation
How work and information is organised through Systems, Workflow, and Efficiencies.
Human Interactions
How people communicate, interact, support each other, and work effectively together.
Environment
Working conditions, remoteness, impact on life outside working hours, physsical environment.
Outcomes
Describe your people’s level of optimism, feeling connected, meaning with work, and intention to stay with organisation
11 Factors
46 sub-scale Working Characteristics measured with 156 survey items, plus Employee Wellbeing and Flourishing outcomes.
Meta-Factor
Leadership Resources (giving energy and supporting wellbeing) and Leadership Demands (taking energy and negative imapacting wellbeing).
Levels of effectiveness
Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing Interventions
The WPSQ is aimed at measuring and addressing psychosocial factors at the Primary, most effective level – removing or reducing Stressors in the first place!
Primary (Oreventative)
Preventative and Structural Interventions
Focus: Identify, reduce or prevent, and monitor
work environment risks to mental health.
- Psychosocial Hazard Measure (WPSQ)
- Psychological Safety Pulse – Heat Map and Monitoring (Team Excel)
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Job Design
- Leadership
- Culture
Secondary (Coping)
Coping and Skill-Building Interventions
Focus: Provide resources for coping skills,
learning, development, knowledge & awareness.
- Manager training
- Mental Health Awareness
- Mindfulness
- WHS Resources
- Wellness Workshops
- Formal Debriefing
- Coaching
Tertiary (Support)
Reactive and Support Interventions
Focus: Support services for individuals
experiencing distress, trauma, or exhaustion.
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Mental Health First Aid
- Counselling orTrauma Support
- After-the-fact resilience training
Workplace safety framework
Psychosocial hazards & why they matter
Hazard sources measured by the WPSQ and their outcomes. If approached with the right strategy these can be turned into strengths to produce powerful positive human performance. If neglected, increase risk and negative impacts to mental health.
HAZARD SOURCES
Job demands
(Working hours, high stakes, after hours connectivity)
Job design factors
(Role clarity, skill utilisation, job control, role ambiguity)
Change & instability
Poor organisational justice
Poor support
Harmful behaviours
(Bullying harassment, micro-aggressions)
Working Conditions
(Remote/isolated work)
Traumatic events
Physical working environment
OUTCOMES
Flourishing & Wellbeing
- Optimism
- Connection
- Intention to Stay
Human Positive
- Energised
- Effective
- Solutions Focussed
- Go over and above
Human Negative
- Worry, Anxiety, Stress
- Fatigue, Burnout
- Cynical
- Compromised Wellbeing
Organisational Positive
- Engagement & Retention
- Efficiency, Productivity
- Quality
- Profitability
Organisational Negative
- Presenteeism &Turnover
- Absenteeism
- MissingTargets
Structural / design hazards
Behavioural / cultural hazards
Service Integration
The WPSQ is the starting point
Not the whole journey.
The WPSQ integrates directly with our broader service offerings. Measurement is step one — transformation is where the value compounds.
WPSQ + Leadership Development
WPSQ data informs targeted leadership programs. Leaders see how their mindsets and behaviours directly impact the psychosocial safety climate measured by the tool — creating a feedback loop between individual growth and cultural change.
WPSQ + Ongoing Pulse (Team Excel)
Combine the WPSQ baseline with Team Excel’s ongoing pulse capability to track whether your interventions are working and course-correct before problems compound.
WPSQ + Culture Transformation (OCI/OEI)
For whole-of-organisation programs, the WPSQ provides the psychosocial safety baseline while the OCI/OEI maps the broader cultural landscape — together creating a complete diagnostic foundation.
Typical Consulting Flow
Explore → Measure → Debrief → Transform → Sustain
The assessment tool changes based on need — individual, team, or organisation — and the program content differs based on results. But the method remains the same: rigorous measurement informing evidence-based transformation.
Hear from our clients,
What do they say about us?
We have worked across a wide range of sectors and organisational contexts, helping leaders, teams, and organisations build stronger culture, healthier workplaces, and more sustainable performance.
Our Approach
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