Harm By Design: Psychosocial Risk Management at Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241453839)

Psychosocial harm isn't an individual weakness. It's a system design failure.

Most organisations are still trying to solve stress, burnout and psychological injury with resilience training, EAPs and wellbeing initiatives - while the real hazards remain untouched.

This book shows you how psychosocial harm is produced by work itself - and how to redesign the system to reduce exposure at the source.

Built around the 4D Human Work System framework - Design, Demands, Dynamics and Defences - this is a practical playbook for leaders and safety professionals who need more than theory.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Identify where work design is generating psychosocial risk
• Explain why two teams with the same workload experience radically different outcomes
• Recognise how leadership behaviour under pressure becomes a primary hazard
• Move beyond "wellbeing theatre" to real, defensible controls
• Design assessments that stand up to regulatory scrutiny
• Build monitoring and governance structures that prevent harm over time
• Address emerging realities like remote work, algorithmic management, precarious employment and climate stress

This is not another book about self-care.

It is a systems-based approach to designing work people can live with - year after year.

If you are a leader, safety professional, regulator, board member or organisational designer responsible for preventing harm - not managing its aftermath - this book gives you a clear, credible and implementable path forward.

Scroll up and begin redesigning work at the source.

Author: Jamie Mallinder
ISBN-13: 9798241453839
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2025
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d