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.

by: Tara Saxon | Keynote Speaker - Pressure, Patterns & PerformancePublished 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.

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Financial pressure is not a listed psychosocial hazard. That is exactly the problem.

The four questions you will be asked when you take this to the exec

by: Tara Saxon | Keynote Speaker - Pressure, Patterns & PerformancePublished 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.

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The four questions you will be asked when you take this to the exec

I asked twenty-six people directly. Nobody said no.

by: Tara Saxon | Keynote Speaker - Pressure, Patterns & PerformancePublished on: 05/09/2026

One room, one question, and a result that says less about the room than about how rarely anybody asks it.

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I asked twenty-six people directly. Nobody said no.