Poor Workplace Relationships

Poor workplace relationships can become a psychosocial hazard when you experience workplace stress due to relationships in your workplace. This can include occupational violence and aggression, bullying, harassment, and conflict at work.

Poor workplace relationships are not limited to your managers and colleagues. You can experience poor workplace relationships with third-parties like customers, clients, contractors, and labour-hire workers.

Poor workplace relationships become a psychosocial hazard when it is severe, prolonged, or recurring. When this happens, it is a health and safety risk that should be resolved.

Poor workplace relationships can be a psychosocial hazard, and can also sit alongside other hazards such as poor support, low job control, poor organizational justice, violence and aggression, bullying, harassment and sexual harassment as part of an unhealthy and hazardous working environment.

Experiencing hazardous workplace relationships can increase the risk of work-related stress and be incredibly harmful to both physical and mental health.

Download “Surveying Safety: Poor workplace relationships ” to identify the risk in your workplace.