Workplace safety no longer concerns only what workers touch or breathe on site. Hotter working days, more frequent flooding and unreliable infrastructure change the physical conditions of work, while long hours, constant connectivity, restructuring and workplace conflict affect mental health and productivity. Employers who treat these as separate matters, or ignore them, face absence, accidents, claims and loss of skilled people.

The Best Practices in Climate-Related and Psychosocial Workplace Risk Training Course brings both groups of hazards into one practical risk management approach. It opens with the legal and business case, then teaches how to identify exposure by job and location, rate its severity and select controls that reach the cause rather than the symptom. Later sessions cover emergency and adaptation planning, supportive management behaviours, reporting systems that people trust, and measures that show whether risk is truly falling.

The format favours discussion and workplace application. Participants examine sample workplaces, practise consultation and investigation techniques and prepare a risk register and action plan that fits their own organisation, with attention to sectors where outdoor, shift or client-facing work raises exposure.

On completion, participants will be able to:

• Identify climate-related hazards, including heat, storms, smoke and flooding, for specific jobs and sites.
• Recognise psychosocial hazards such as excessive workload, low control, bullying, harassment and violence.
• Carry out a combined risk assessment using consultation, observation and data.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls to both physical climate and psychosocial risks.
• Prepare a heat action plan and an extreme weather response procedure.
• Design supportive practices, including manager training, return-to-work and employee assistance.
• Establish reporting and investigation methods that encourage early disclosure.
• Track indicators and review controls as part of an ISO 45001-style management system.

The course is relevant to those who manage, advise on or experience workplace risk, including:

• Health, safety and environment managers and officers
• Occupational health nurses and doctors
• Human resource and wellbeing professionals
• Line managers and site supervisors
• Trade union and worker safety representatives
• Sustainability and climate adaptation officers
• Facilities and operations managers
• Construction, agriculture and manufacturing supervisors
• Public sector and NGO staff responsible for staff welfare

Participants leave equipped with:

• A combined climate and psychosocial risk assessment template.
• A heat stress action plan outline with trigger levels and responsibilities.
• A worker consultation and survey guide for sensitive topics.
• Manager conversation and referral guidelines for staff in distress.
• A set of leading and lagging indicators for monitoring both risk types.
• A prioritised action plan for their own workplace.

The course is practical and discussion-led, using workplace examples. It involves:

• Brief expert inputs on each hazard group
• Risk assessment practice on sample sites and job roles
• Facilitated discussion of sensitive topics under agreed ground rules
• Case files on heat illness, bullying complaints and burnout
• Tool building for registers, surveys and action plans

Participants who take part in all sessions and complete the risk assessment and action planning tasks are issued with a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.