Are You Ready for the New Safety Emergency?
As traditional safety indicators continue to improve, psychosocial harm is rising sharply driven by modern work pressures, external stressors and increasing emotional demands. This session explores how these factors are creating a new and often underestimated category of risk that directly affects safety, decision‑making, resilience and business performance. Moving beyond wellbeing initiatives alone, the talk examines the legal duty to assess work‑related stress like any other hazard and challenges organisations to integrate psychosocial risk into governance, leadership and everyday safety management, with clear, practical actions to prevent harm before it escalates.