Season 09 of the WhyWork Podcast begins with sensational media gossip that leads the team, Alan, Sara, and Trajce, aka “Ziggy,” the pop music master, down a pathway of discussion on the bounds of workplace dismissal. Yes, the Coldplay incident. Trajce asks about reasonable workplace treatment when a line of inquiry encroaches upon one’s personal life. They discuss what happens when a worker is caught “pashing off” with someone whom others do not expect, and the taboos around workplace relationships. Trajce uses another example – when an employee refuses to take an alcohol breath test to demonstrate fitness for work.
The podcasters embrace discussion on psychosocial risk management and codes of practice, standards, and guidance material which is just dripping into feeling states. Trajce is concerned about work relations that confuse judgments. Alan debates Trajce’s position on attitudinal versus behavioural breaches, while Sara explores ideas about leveraging company policy to institute ego assertions from people in power. “I do what I wanna do,” she raps, an excerpt of a song she has in mind during these times.
For more on psychosocial risk management, refer to PRAiSETM (Psychosocial Risk Assessment and Integrated Solutions for Employers) – Certified Assessor and Manager programs – and PRA, the new task-based Psychosocial Risk Analyser feature within the ErgoAnalyst software platform. These tools are helping teams visualise, quantify, qualify, and respond to both contextualised physical and psychosocial risks, merging technical rigour with empathy-driven co-design.