Worker duties

As a worker, you must take reasonable care for your own health and safety and not adversely affect the health and safety of others.

You must also comply with reasonable instructions and cooperate with reasonable health and safety policies or procedures that have been notified to you.

You can do this by:

• reporting psychosocial safety issues and concerns to your manager or health and safety representative (HSR)
• providing feedback during consultation
• supporting colleagues, understanding that we don’t know the difficulties they may be facing
• ensuring you understand your role and your job description
• participating in any training you may need to do your job properly and safely
• not taking part in toxic workplace interactions, and
• following any policies or procedures your employer or manager provides about psychosocial hazards.

More information about psychosocial hazards and how to manage them can be found in the model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work.