Rachel Mackay

This is a nuanced hazard. Monitoring is a normal and often legitimate feature of workplaces. A business has reasonable interests in productivity, safety, data security and compliance. A CCTV camera in a retail store is not intrusive surveillance. A GPS tracker on a company vehicle used for work purposes is not intrusive surveillance.

What It Is, Why It Matters, and How Australian Businesses Manage It What is fatigue as a psychosocial hazard in Australian workplaces? Fatigue is a recognised psychosocial hazard under the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice 2024. It occurs when workers experience mental or physical exhaustion that reduces their capacity to perform safely — caused by excessive hours, inadequate rest, shift work, or sustained high physical or cognitive demands. Fatigue causes psychological...

The psychological harm from job insecurity does not require the job to actually end. The sustained experience of not knowing is itself the hazard. A worker who lies awake on Sunday nights wondering whether they will receive shifts on Monday is experiencing job insecurity.