People Risk Employee Survey (PRES)

Most organisations have hazards checklists or conduct hazard hunts to ensure their workplaces are as safe as possible –physically that is. But not many apply the same rigour to finding the hazards that have potential impact on their people’s psychological health.

This systematic approach to stress prevention is now required by OH&S legislation. It is made easier and more efficient by adopting PRES into the overall consultation strategy to fulfil the employer’s risk management obligations.

What will PRES do for you?

Applying the AS/NZ 4360 risk management standard to the management of people risks in the workplace, the PRES measures and identifies:

• level of well-being at each level (individual, team, management/ leadership and organisational)
• risk factors affecting and/or threatening psychological health at each of the levels
• hazards that have the highest consequences for the health of the organisation's employees, as well as, identifying those hazards that might be impacting on only a few individuals, but causing them a high level of harm
• specific reasons, or causes, behind poor people outcome metrics such as high unplanned absence or a high number of stress claims
• specific areas for the organisation to focus on to achieve greater psychological health, well-being, and to improve/protect performance

The PRES can be used as a data source in its own right, or to quantitatively support the findings from focus groups and information gleaned from interviews with employees, as part of a broader Psychological Risk Management Systems project.