Patterns & Pressure
Insights on financial pressure and psychosocial safety at work — for the people who can see it in the data and can't yet name it.
Financial pressure is not a listed psychosocial hazard. That is exactly the problem.
Published on: 05/09/2026
Why a driver that sits underneath several listed hazards is invisible in a register built to count categories - and what to do instead of adding a line.
psychosocial hazardshazard registerfinancial pressurerisk controlsWHS
Industry did not predict distress
Published on: 05/09/2026
Australian research found industry did not predict psychological distress once age and gender were accounted for. Which breaks the way most organisations decide who needs support.
psychological distressabsenteeismworkforce researchfinancial stresstargeting
Why the seminar did not work
Published on: 05/09/2026
The session went well, the feedback was good, and nothing changed. That is not a delivery problem. It is a mismatch between the level of the remedy and the level of the driver.
workplace wellbeinghierarchy of controlswellbeing programsstructural drivers
The four questions you will be asked when you take this to the exec
Published on: 05/09/2026
There are only four, and they are the same four in every organisation. Here is what a defensible answer to each one looks like.
business casecost of inactionCFObudgetfinancial pressure
