Psychosocial hazards in Western Australia and WorkSafe WA
Short answer
WorkSafe WA publishes a psychosocial hazards overview and a list of common hazards and risk factors. It also lists support agencies for people in distress, and describes a mining program called MARS. This page covers what WorkSafe WA states, and no more. Haznote gives workers a confidential route and keeps the record.
Automatically checked against WorkSafe WA on 31 Oct 2026.
What the regulator says
WorkSafe WA’s page opens with the point that protecting workers’ mental health is just as important as protecting their physical health. It sets out an overview and examples of hazards and risk factors that should be assessed in the risk management process. It also lists support agencies for people experiencing emotional distress.
What is particular to WA
The page also describes the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety program, known as MARS. It’s a government-led initiative with partners, aimed at systemic change in mining workplaces. We haven’t stated the commencement date of WA’s psychosocial rules or named the regulation, because the page we checked doesn’t. A date we can’t source isn’t worth printing.
A worked example
A fly-in fly-out electrician on a Pilbara project mentions on a call home that rosters and isolation are wearing him down. Back on site he reports, confidentially, that two weeks of night shifts and little contact with family have affected the whole crew. The person handling it reads the report. The company changes the roster and adds a regular check-in.
What a useful record looks like
Western Australia has large remote and fly-in workforces, where isolation and long rosters are part of the hazard picture. A report made in camp, with no signal, and sent later still carries its original time and place. That matters when someone wants to see whether a problem followed a particular roster or site. It’s why Haznote saves reports on the phone before they’re sent. Remote crews get something practical out of that, whatever the rules say.
How Haznote handles it
Haznote lets a worker report this kind of problem without going through the supervisor who sets the roster. It records the report and routes it to the company’s confidential contact. It does not diagnose anyone.
What the regulator says
Each row shows the source’s own words, who published them and when they were last checked by script.
| Item | What it says | Source and check date |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Protecting workers' mental health is just as important as their physical health. Source says: | WorkSafe WA Checked 31 Oct 2026 |
| Mining program | The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Program is a government-led initiative for mining workplaces. Source says: | WorkSafe WA Checked 31 Oct 2026 |
| Support | WorkSafe WA lists support agencies for individuals experiencing emotional distress or thoughts of self-harm. Source says: | WorkSafe WA Checked 31 Oct 2026 |
Plain answers.
Where do I get help if someone is in distress?
WorkSafe WA lists support agencies on its psychosocial hazards pages. In an emergency call 000.
What is MARS?
The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety program, which WorkSafe WA describes as a government-led initiative for mining workplaces.
Is the commencement date shown?
Not yet. The page we checked doesn’t state it, so we don’t either.
Where this comes from.
- Psychosocial hazards · WorkSafe WA
General information, not legal advice. Check the current rules with WorkSafe WA.
Give workers a confidential route that skips the site manager.
Run it on one site and see the first report land in the manager’s list.