Workplace Safety: Psychosocial safety and Intercultural Competence

This event is designed to introduce you to Psychosocial safety in the workplace and how it interacts with culturally diverse teams.

As part of running an organisation that meets the workplace health and safety legislation requirements (Work Health and Safety Act 2020), we need to ensure we avoid and manage risks around psychosocial safety in our teams. A key aspect to this is building our Intercultural Competence.

One in three people in WA are born overseas. However, the dynamics of cultural differences are often overlooked, unnoticed or even politely and conveniently ignored as they appear to be trivial. This can lead to an unnecessary increase in psychosocial hazards and damage to individual and collective mental health.

A psychosocial hazard is anything that can cause psychological harm or damage to a persons mental health. Common hazards include job demands, low work control, poor support, lack of role clarity and expectations, poor change management and poor organisational justice. These can be further exacerbated by having teams with lower Intercultural Competence. By not being aware of how our cultural background influences the way we speak to others, give instructions, give feedback and communicate we can overtime unintentionally create psychosocial hazards at work.

In this one hour webinar we will explore what are psychosocial hazards, what is Intercultural competence and how we can increase our competencies to create safe workplaces for culturally diverse teams.

Outcome:

• Better management of psychosocial risk in diverse teams
• Understand how Intercultural Competence affects psychosocial safety

To join the waitlist please email: rasaoka@languageandculture.com.au

About the Trainer:

Rika Asaoka/Language and Culture Pty Ltd is an intercultural diversity consultant/facilitator who delivers interactive workshops, training, consultancy, facilitation and coaching on intercultural diversity management.

Bringing three decades of cross-cultural professional experience with trained facilitation and coaching skills, she has assisted individuals and organisations to empower the existing diversity within to achieve higher outcomes. Over 1,000 participants from wide range of industries including oil and gas, engineering, not-for-profit and government sectors have been attending her sessions annually.

Working with Rika means gaining practical insights into cultural diversity management and enjoying every minute of learning. Her facilitation style is known to leave a lasting impression on participants.

Rika is a certified licensee of Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a powerful internationally recognised assessment tool for improving intercultural effectiveness, and is a representative of IRC Australia/Asia Centre.