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Psychosocial Risk · ISO 45003 · Australia

The psychosocial risk evidence WorkSafe expects.

Department-level hazard identification, assessment, and controls — documented and board-ready.

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◆ DAYLIGHT MANAGER PLAYBOOK SERIES · CONFIDENTIAL
HAZARD C4 JOB DEMANDS CRITICAL
High-Demand Workload
Reset Protocol
15-min structured weekly check-in · ISO 45003 · 6.1.2.1 · Capacity scoring included
PLAYBOOK
01
OF 05
ASSIGNED TO
Each Unit Head
MANDATE WINDOW
30 days from delivery
ADDITIONAL BUDGET
Nil required
WITHOUT THIS
Undocumented duty-of-care risk
The Protocol — Step by Step
01
Set the Containermin 1–2
"No agenda. No performance talk. I just want to know how your workload is actually landing."
02
Run the Capacity Checkmin 2–6
"On a scale of 1–10, where 10 is completely underwater — where are you sitting right now?"
Record. Don't interpret. Follow with: "What's driving that number most?"
03
Negotiate the Loadmin 10–13
"If we could take one thing off your plate — what would make the biggest difference?"
You must leave with at least one concrete action. No action = conversation didn't happen.
04
Document & Commitmin 13–15
Complete the Capacity Log immediately. Score + action + date. This is your ISO 45003 compliance record and proactive risk documentation.
SCORING TOOL
Capacity Score → Action
1–3 Manageable
No intervention required.
4–6 At Risk
Defer one priority. Flag to Dept Head.
7–8 Overloaded
Immediate redistribution. Escalate within 24hrs.
9–10 Critical
Stop. Escalate to Dept + HR. Initiate Incident Record.
MANAGER RESPONSIBILITY
Failure to act on a score of 7+ within 24hrs creates risk under WHS Act s.19. Every documented conversation is your proactive risk documentation.
Confidential
◆ DAYLIGHT ENTERPRISE RESILIENCE BRIEFING · CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 02
Deployment Timeline — 90-Day Execution
DAY 1
Diagnostic Delivered
Full suite to stakeholders
DAY 30
Playbooks Live
Unit heads execute assigned protocols
DAY 60
Signal Check-In
Hazard reduction reviewed
DAY 90
Re-Diagnostic & Verify
Board-ready compliance score
SECTION 03
Your Full Deliverables Suite
◆
ISO 45003 Alignment Pack
Clause mapping & gap analysis
◆
CFO Risk Briefing
EBITDA drag & exposure model
◆
HR Dept X-Ray
Red zone isolation
◆
Manager Playbooks
One per unit head, zero extra spend
◆
Board Deck
Executive-ready, 10 slides
◆
90-Day Re-Diagnostic
Verified & board-documented
COST OF INACTION
Every 90-day window of inaction materially increases WHS regulatory exposure. Undocumented psychosocial hazards become elevated Board-level risk at each review cycle — with WHS Act penalties now exceeding $10M per offence for bodies corporate.
Confidential
◆ DAYLIGHT CFO CAPITAL RISK BRIEFING · CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 03
Scenario Modelling — The Cost of Inaction
SCENARIO A · STATUS QUO
COST OF INACTION · 12-MONTH
Escalating
  • +18% escalation as turnover crystallises into hard cash-flow losses
  • WHS investigation risk grows after each 90-day inaction window
  • Each undocumented hazard becomes a Board-level risk
SCENARIO B · DAYLIGHT PROTOCOL
TARGETED YIELD RECOVERY · 12-MONTH
Recovered
A 25% hazard reduction in your highest-exposure units recovers working capital without company-wide HR spend.
DEPLOY COST
Nil
Zero extra budget
ROI MULTIPLE
High ×
Per engagement
MANDATE WINDOW
30d
To deploy
SECTION 04 · COMPLIANCE REMEDIATION DIRECTIVES — 30-DAY MANDATE
1
Primary Exposure Unit · C4: Job Demands
Execute 'High-Demand Workload Reset Protocol' — 30 days. No HR budget required.
Quantified
2
Secondary Exposure Unit · C12: Role Ambiguity
Execute 'Role Clarity & Accountability Framework' — 30 days. No HR budget required.
Quantified
3
Tertiary Exposure Unit · C7: Low Recognition
Execute 'Recognition & Psychological Safety Playbook' — 30 days. No HR budget required.
Quantified
Confidential
◆ DAYLIGHT ISO 45003 ALIGNMENT PACK · CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 01
Hazard Severity — Clause Risk Register
C4Job Demands
CRITICAL
88
Engineering & Projects · clause 6.1.2.1
C12Role Ambiguity
CRITICAL
71
Operations & Delivery · clause 6.1.2.2
D3Workplace Conflict
CRITICAL
63
Cross-Org · clause 8.1.3
C7Low Recognition
EXPOSURE
55
Sales & BD · clause 7.4
E1Physical Violence
OBSERVED
40
Field / Site Ops · monitored
BOARD EXPOSURE SUMMARY
Psychosocial
Hazards
Identified
Areas where survey data indicates elevated psychosocial risk relative to ISO 45003 hazard categories. Further assessment recommended.
  • C4 Job Demands — documented overload, no controls on file
  • C12 Role Ambiguity — undocumented duty-of-care obligation
  • D3 Conflict — no formal resolution process documented
WHS Act 2011 — Financial Consequence
Undocumented psychosocial hazards represent organisational risk. WHS Act penalties now exceed $10M per offence for bodies corporate.
AGGREGATE HAZARD SCORE
XX/100
BELOW SAFE HARBOUR
A safe organisation scores ≥100. Every point below represents an area requiring proactive management.
Confidential
◆ DAYLIGHT CFO CAPITAL RISK BRIEFING · CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 01
Department Intervention Cards
Highest-exposure units · 92% of total capital bleed concentrated in 3 departments
0130 DAYS
C4 · JOB DEMANDSISO 45003 · 6.1.2.1
88
Engineering & Projects
ASSIGNED PLAYBOOK
'High-Demand Workload Reset Protocol'
Workload audit, redistribution & weekly capacity check-in cadence
EXPOSURE
Quantified
CAPITAL RECOVERED
Per org
Conservative 25%
0230 DAYS
C12 · ROLE AMBIGUITYISO 45003 · 6.1.2.2
71
Operations & Delivery
ASSIGNED PLAYBOOK
'Role Clarity & Accountability Framework'
Role boundary documentation, accountability matrix & monthly review cadence
EXPOSURE
Quantified
CAPITAL RECOVERED
Per org
Conservative 25%
0360 DAYS
C7 · LOW RECOGNITIONISO 45003 · 7.4
55
Sales & Business Dev.
ASSIGNED PLAYBOOK
'Recognition & Psychological Safety Playbook'
Recognition framework, psychological safety pulse survey & 60-day re-measure
EXPOSURE
Quantified
CAPITAL RECOVERED
Per org
Conservative 25%
TOTAL CAPITAL AT RISK
$2M – $5M+
Typical org range · unrecognised bleed
PROJECTED RECOVERY
Conservative 25%
Targeted unit intervention only
DEPLOYMENT COST
NIL
No additional HR budget required
Confidential
Risk Briefing
Deployment
Scenario
Compliance
Playbooks

Why This Matters Now

Psychosocial risk now carries the same legal weight as a physical hazard.

Officer Liability
$475,000
Personal penalty exposure for officers who fail their health & safety duty.
The duty extends to psychosocial hazards leadership didn't know existed.
Legal Obligation
WHS Act
Regulators are now auditing against the Act.
Without a documented baseline, there's limited evidence reasonable steps were taken.
Claim Severity
$67,400
Median psychological injury claim — 4× other claim types.
Most organisations are carrying multiple. None of them documented.

1 in 5 Australian workers experience a mental health condition in any 12-month period (ABS, 2022) — active, often undiagnosed, and sitting inside every organisation right now.

Daylight surfaces all of them, ranked by financial exposure.

ISO 45003:2021 WHS Act 2011 Safe Work Australia
$14.8B
Cost of workplace stress to the Australian economy annually (Medibank/Econtech)
123%
Growth in serious mental stress claims over the past decade (Safe Work Australia, 2024)
42%
Of voluntary exits were preventable — per the manager's own admission (Gallup)

What Daylight Does

From hidden risk to an audit-ready system.

Daylight Identifies, Assesses, and Reviews against ISO 45003. Your managers execute Control, equipped with personalised playbooks.

01Identify
Daylight executes
Hazards surfaced, traceably.
An ISO 45003-aligned consultation at the team level, producing the participation record an alignment review expects.
You receive Hazard register · Participation record · Consultation log
02Assess
Daylight executes
Severity priced in dollars.
Hazards priced, ranked, and mapped to the exact ISO 45003 pillar and WHS obligation they implicate.
You receive Risk matrix · Financial Exposure Model · Departmental heat map
03Control
Daylight equips · You execute
Controls owned by managers.
Each at-risk team gets a targeted action plan — owner, deadline, manager playbook.
You receive Control register · Manager Playbooks · 90-Day Action Plan
04Review
Daylight executes
The loop auditors expect.
Follow-up at 3, 6, or 12 months — tests whether controls are working and produces the evidence trail.
You receive Re-diagnostic report · Refined register · Audit-Readiness Pack
What the regulator checks Safe Work Australia · ISO 45003
01 Did you identify the hazards?
02 Did you assess them properly?
03 Did you implement proportionate controls?
04 Did you review whether they worked?
The standard we build to

The deliverable an assessor wants to see — hazards identified, people consulted, proportionate controls chosen, rationale recorded, controls reviewed.

Built on
  • ISO 45003:2021
  • WHS Act 2011
  • Safe Work Australia
  • Peer-Reviewed Research
  • WorkCover Claims Data

What You Walk Away With

Every output built for a specific person in the room — ready to act on.

Sample Findings — Confidential
Operations · Level 3 Risk
Chronic work demand overload — sustained above threshold for 6+ months
$820,000
ISO 45003 §5.2
People & Culture · Level 2 Risk
Role clarity deficit across mid-management — conflicting accountabilities
$435,000
WHS Act §22
Finance · Level 2 Risk
Low work control — autonomy deficit identified in 68% of survey responses
$275,000
ISO 45003 §6.4
Total Identified Exposure $1.53M
Psychosocial Risk Diagnostic
Risk & Resilience Diagnostic Report
Full organisational findings
Executive Summary
Financial Exposure Analysis
Dollar-quantified risk register
Manager Playbook
Department Action Plan
One per team · Executable
Board Presentation
CEO Strategy Briefing Deck
For Board Review
ISO 45003 Alignment Map
WHS Compliance Summary
Employee Communication Pack
Leadership Briefing Session
Confidential · Secure Portal Access

The Engagement Process

From first conversation to Clarity Presentation — fully managed.

This 5-week engagement executes Stages 1 and 2 of the lifecycle above and equips your managers for Stage 3. Stage 4 happens when you re-diagnose at 3, 6, or 12 months.

Your commitment
Scoping call
~30 min · Pre-engagement
Survey deployment
~5 min to send · under 10 min per employee
Clarity Presentation
60–90 min · Week 5
~1.5 hours total
Daylight handles
Survey design & methodology
Diagnostic analysis
Financial exposure modelling
Compliance mapping
Full report production
01
Your Commitment: 30 min
Scoping Conversation
We map your structure, identify departments in scope, and understand what brought you here — then we take it from there.
Pre-engagement
02
~5 min from you · under 10 min per employee
Survey Deployment & Data Collection
Daylight designs the diagnostic survey and provides a complete deployment briefing pack. You send it to your team in minutes. Employees complete the anonymous, confidential survey in under 10 minutes — no preparation or prior knowledge required.
Weeks 1–2
03
In our hands
Diagnostic Analysis & Report Production
Every risk identified, priced against research, mapped to ISO 45003, and packaged into board-ready outputs your leadership team can act on immediately.
Weeks 3–4
04
Your Commitment: 1 session
The Clarity Presentation
Every risk named, every cost quantified, every solution mapped to the team that needs it. You leave knowing exactly what's happening and exactly what to do next.
Week 5
Within five weeks, your organisation moves from unnamed risk to knowing exactly what it is, what it's costing, and what to do about it — with the evidence to prove it.

Organisations that reassess at 3, 6, or 12 months turn that baseline into measured progress — the documented trail boards and regulators increasingly expect.
Calculate Your Exposure
For the CFO
"How does this save us money?"
5×
We guarantee identifying 5× our fee in unmanaged financial exposure — turnover, presenteeism, and absenteeism combined. If we don't find it, you don't pay.
For the HR Director
"Will this create more work for us?"
2
Two conversations. That's your team's entire commitment. We run everything — survey deployment, analysis, report production. You show up for the outcome.
For Legal & Risk
"Do we have proactive documentation in place?"
ISO 45003
Your Alignment Pack is guaranteed to map directly to the ISO 45003:2021 hazard categories. If your internal HR or Risk team determines the mapping falls short, the engagement fee is waived — you don't pay.
For the CEO
"How does this make us a better employer?"
4×
Organisations with high psychological safety have 4× lower attrition risk than those without — and attract better candidates. (BCG, 2024)

The Financial Case for Acting Now

Psychosocial risk has a price tag. Most organisations are just paying it without knowing.

Staff replacement cost — the most recoverable capital loss
Source: Safe Work Australia (2023); Deloitte Access Economics The Economic Cost of Unhealthy Workplaces. Replacement cost modelled at 1.5–2× annual salary, encompassing direct recruitment, onboarding, and the 6–12 month productivity ramp-up period documented in occupational health literature. In a workforce of 650 with a 16% annual turnover rate (the Safe Work Australia healthcare-sector benchmark), voluntary resignation attributable to psychosocial hazards conservatively accounts for 35–50% of total departure volume — roughly 35–52 of the 104 expected exits.
1.5–2×
Annual salary per departure
Present but not performing — the invisible drain
Source: Medibank Private The Cost of Workplace Stress in Australia; Stansfeld & Candy (2006), Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Presenteeism losses are modelled using validated self-report productivity indices (WPAI) applied to the proportion of headcount in high-demand, low-control work conditions. A cohort of 143 at-risk employees (22% of a 650-person healthcare workforce) carrying a 20% productivity deficit represents the salary-equivalent of roughly 29 full-time roles generating no measurable output.
18–25%
Productivity yield loss per affected employee (Gallup)
Stress-related leave — the most directly attributed cost
Source: Safe Work Australia Work-Related Psychological Health and Safety (2022 National Dataset); Australian Bureau of Statistics Work-Related Injuries Survey. The 8.7-day differential is derived from matched-cohort analysis comparing absence rates in high-psychosocial-risk classifications against sector-adjusted baselines. At a median daily salary cost of $386 ($85K ÷ 220 working days), a 143-person cohort at elevated risk carries approximately $480,000 in attributable absenteeism annually, prior to backfill, on-cost premiums, and disruption costs.
+8.7
Avg. additional sick days per year
WHS liability — the cost that arrives without warning
Source: Safe Work Australia Comparative Performance Monitoring Report; WHS Act 2011 (Cth) penalty schedules as amended 2023. Regulatory exposure is estimated by cross-referencing workforce size, industry sector, and identified hazard categories against Safe Work Australia psychological injury claims data (median $67,400 per claim, Key WHS Statistics 2025) and applicable WHS Act penalty tiers (exceeding $10M for a body corporate under current legislation). Organisations without documented identification and control measures face materially elevated liability upon any formal investigation or claim.
$67K
Median cost per psychological injury claim (SWA)

In a 650-person healthcare organisation with elevated psychosocial risk exposure, these five categories typically represent $8.8M to $16.4M in annual recoverable capital — most of it invisible until named, quantified, and addressed.

Organisation size 650 employees

Elevated exposure defined as 22% of workforce in high-risk categories — the median finding across Australian healthcare and care-sector workplaces. Source: ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing (2020–22); ISO 45003:2021 risk classifications; Safe Work Australia industry-multiplier baseline (1.15× for healthcare).

Estimated Annual Exposure
$12.6M
Healthcare scenario · Recoverable · Currently unmanaged
Turnover$7.6M
Presenteeism$2.5M
Absenteeism$691K
WHS Claims$543K
Brand Erosion$1.2M

Our Guarantees

If we don't deliver, you don't pay.

Two unconditional guarantees — one for your CFO, one for your HR and risk team. No financial risk. No professional risk. The risk of the engagement sits with us, not your team.

5×
Financial Guarantee
The 5× Capital
Identification Guarantee
If our diagnostic doesn't identify at least 5× our fee in unmanaged financial exposure — via flight risk, presenteeism, and medical absenteeism — the engagement fee is waived.
ISO
Alignment Guarantee
The ISO 45003
Alignment Guarantee
Your Diagnostic Report and Executive Board Deck are mapped directly against the 14 psychosocial hazard categories in ISO 45003:2021. If your HR or Risk team finds the mapping doesn't trace back — the engagement fee is waived.

Why Daylight

Three ways to respond to psychosocial risk.
Only one gives you answers, ROI, and a path forward.

Capability Large Consulting Firm Internal HR / DIY Daylight
Department-level findings Org-wide summaries only Rarely structured at this level Yes — every department
Dollar-quantified risk Qualitative ratings only Not available internally Research-backed pricing
ISO 45003 map Sometimes — at extra cost Gap in most internal teams Included in every engagement
Executable manager action plans Recom­mendations, not plans Possible but resource-heavy Per-team, ready to act on
Fully managed — minimal client lift Requires significant internal coordination Entirely your team's workload Two conversations. We do the rest.
Staff retention ROI Rarely quantified at team level Not benchmarked to research Turnover costs surfaced per team
Board-ready in weeks, not months 6–12 month typical timeline Rarely at board standard Clarity Presentation within 5 weeks
Engagement cost $80,000–$250,000+ Significant internal time cost Enquiry-based · Right-sized
12 Months After Your Clarity Presentation

What your organisation looks like
when the work is done.

Lower turnover. Fewer claims. Managers who know what their teams are actually carrying.

Flight-risk employees identified and retained. Replacement costs — $85K–$170K per head — stopped at the source before the exit interview happens.
The 18–25% productivity gap closes. You stop paying full salaries for part-capacity output — without a single redundancy.
Managers stop carrying unspoken team problems. They work from a named risk register and the authority that comes from evidence-backed decisions.
Organisations that demonstrably invest in psychosocial safety attract top performers. Culture becomes a competitive advantage — not a liability risk.
Documented. Proactive. ISO 45003 mapped. When questions arise — you have the answer. That's worth more than the fee.

All 14 ISO 45003 Psychosocial Hazards We Assess

Common Questions

Everything you need to know before the call.

If something isn't answered here, it will be answered on your discovery call. There's no obligation — just an honest conversation about whether we're the right fit for each other.

Start the Conversation
No — and it's important to be clear about this. Daylight is not a certification or accreditation body. We do not issue ISO 45003 compliance certificates. What we do is map your organisation against the ISO 45003 framework, identify where your current practices create exposure, and generate documentation that positions you for audit-readiness — defined as timestamped evidence that you have proactively (1) identified hazards via staff consultation, (2) assessed their severity, and (3) provisioned targeted remediation playbooks for management. Think of it as building your proactive baseline, not issuing a verdict on the outcome of any specific audit.
Daylight engagements are best suited to Australian organisations with 50 to 2,000 employees — large enough to have meaningful departmental complexity, and structured enough to act on what we find. We've designed the engagement model to be right-sized: you're not paying for a team of 20 consultants you'll never meet. If you're outside this range, reach out anyway — we'll be honest about fit.
A standard engagement runs five weeks from survey launch to Clarity Presentation. The scoping call happens before the clock starts. From there, the survey phase runs two weeks, followed by two weeks of analysis and deliverable production, with the Clarity Presentation delivered in week five. The most demanding moments for your organisation are the scoping call and the final Clarity Presentation. Everything between is handled by Daylight.
Genuinely minimal. The engagement requires one scoping call (typically 30 minutes) at the start to align on structure and context, and one Clarity Presentation session at the end where we walk your leadership team through every finding, every dollar figure, and every solution. Your employees complete the survey independently — anonymous, confidential, and taking under 10 minutes each. Your HR or People team doesn't coordinate it. Your managers don't run workshops. We handle everything in between.
All survey responses are fully anonymous. No individual responses are attributed to specific employees — findings are reported at the department or cohort level, with a minimum threshold of responses before any group-level insight is surfaced. This is a fundamental design principle of the diagnostic, and it's what allows us to collect honest signal rather than managed responses.
This is the most important question you can ask. The honest answer is: that's exactly when the deliverables matter most. Serious findings are serious regardless of whether you have a documented diagnostic or not — the difference is that with Daylight, you have a structured record of what was found, a dollar value attached to each risk, and a specific action plan for resolution. That's a far stronger position to be in than discovering the same issues reactively when questions arise.
Engagements are priced based on organisational size, number of departments in scope, and the deliverable package required. We don't publish fixed pricing because no two organisations present the same complexity — and we'd rather have a short scoping call than give you a number that doesn't reflect your situation. What we can say: our engagements are designed to cost a fraction of the financial exposure we typically identify.
After the Clarity Presentation, your managers have everything they need — per-team playbooks, specific to the hazards identified in their department. The engagement is complete and self-contained. Many organisations choose to reassess at 3, 6, or 12 months to measure whether the interventions shifted the risk profile, refresh their ISO 45003 compliance baseline, and give the board updated evidence of progress. Follow-up diagnostics are scoped to the hazards originally identified, fully managed by Daylight, and structured the same way as the initial engagement.
Why I built Daylight

Happier people do better work. We've all seen it firsthand.

Dale Flanagan, Founder of Daylight
Founder
Dale Flanagan
Engineer · Trained in ISO 45003

In the workplaces I've been part of, I watched good people get quietly worn down. Not by anything you'd report to HR, but by the daily stuff that's plausibly deniable and never quite stops, the kind that leaves people hyper-vigilant and exhausted.

What got me is how avoidable most of it was. People just needed a safe way to say how the work was really landing, and a bit of genuine support to fix what was grinding them down.

I've always liked understanding people past the small talk, so this never felt hard to me, it felt obvious. It isn't theory for me, this is something that's significantly impacted my career trajectory as well as the people I've worked alongside. Now there's research and data to make this mission a no brainer.

This is not only achievable, it has real mental and financial benefits. It can, and needs to, become the norm.

5×
Guaranteed minimum return — we identify 5× our fee in exposure, or you don't pay
5 wks
From first conversation to Clarity Presentation — fully managed, end to end
2
Conversations required from your team — one scoping call, one Clarity Presentation
10
Deliverables produced — executive, compliance, and operational — specific to your organisation
5× Capital Guarantee + ISO 45003 Alignment Guarantee — If we don't find the money or the standard isn't met, you don't pay. See both guarantees →

Book a Conversation

Understand what it's costing you — and what to do about it.

The discovery call is a no-obligation conversation. We'll ask about your organisation, understand what brought you here, and be honest about whether we're the right fit. You'll leave with clarity either way.

Your commitment: two conversations. Our commitment: everything else. Scoping call at the start. Clarity Presentation at the end. Daylight manages the entire process in between. We take that seriously.

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