Work overload is emerging as one of the defining psychosocial risks facing organisations in 2026. Our Managing Work Overload workshop series is designed to help organisations move beyond awareness and build practical capability — equipping both staff and leaders to recognise, prevent, and manage workload-related psychosocial risks in line with WHS obligations and ISO 45003 guidance. These workshops focus not just on coping with pressure, but on improving how work is designed, led, and governed.
Our interactive all staff workshops help employees understand what work overload is, why it poses a genuine psychosocial risk, and how it differs from healthy challenge. Participants learn to recognise early warning signs — both in themselves and in their teams — and explore practical strategies for managing competing demands, clarifying priorities, setting boundaries, and supporting sustainable work practices.
Our leaders and managers workshops strengthen leaders’ capability to recognise how workload pressures develop, assess psychosocial risks in real time, and intervene early. Participants build practical skills in workload assessment, role clarity, prioritisation, consultation, and psychologically safe conversations. The program also supports leaders to balance performance and risk — ensuring targets are delivered without quietly burning people out. Leaders leave with practical tools, action plans, and structured approaches to embedding sustainable workload practices into everyday management.
To support long-term impact, workshops can be accompanied by a Work Overload Awareness & Management Toolkit. This includes: Self-reflection checklists for staff; Workload risk assessment tools for managers; Conversation guides for early intervention; Meeting and recovery audits; Practical control actions aligned to the psychosocial hierarchy of controls.
With recent changes to WHS legislation and growing recognition of work overload as a clear psychosocial hazard, organisations can no longer afford to treat this as an individual time-management issue