# Psychosocial Regulations in Victoria

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**The Regulations commenced on 1 December 2025.**

## Frequently asked questions –

**What are the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations?**

These are regulations that focus on managing risk from psychosocial hazards and create specific obligations for Victorian employers to identify and control psychosocial hazards and risks in their workplaces.

**What will the Regulations do?**
The Regulations seek to strengthen the existing Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) framework in Victoria by:

- promoting the importance of psychological health and safety in the working environment
- ensuring employers eliminate or reduce risks to health and safety associated with psychosocial hazards so far as is reasonably practicable
- providing more clarity for employers about their obligations as they relate to psychological health and safety
- increasing awareness about psychosocial hazards and ways to eliminate or reduce risks associated with those hazards.

**How will the Regulations do this?**
The Regulations will achieve its objective by prescribing a tailored risk management process requiring all employers to:

- identify psychosocial hazards;
- control the risks associated with a psychosocial hazard by either eliminating or reducing those risks, so far as is reasonably practicable; and
- review and revise risk controls in prescribed circumstances.

**More resources:**

About the Regulations

[New psychosocial regulations released: effective 1 December 2025 | Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry](https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/news/new-psychosocial-regulations-released-effective-1-december-2025)

[Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations 2025 | legislation.vic.gov.au](https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/as-made/statutory-rules/occupational-health-and-safety-psychological-health-regulations-2025)

[Compliance code: Psychological health | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/compliance-code-psychological-health)

Resources

[Psychological health | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/psychological-health)

[Psychosocial hazards in the workplace | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/psychosocial-hazards-workplace?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23068563299&gbraid=0AAAAABdmJqOAR1edhQqD3C1uD8nutyxv-&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NTJBhDEARIsAB7QHD07K53IM4UN3fjT--TaPd4ZUPkVCb0sCS4h58Iivc_Xvd82CZtb_8MaAm_fEALw_wcB)

[Prevention plans for psychosocial hazards | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/resources/prevention-plans-psychosocial-hazards?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23068563296&gbraid=0AAAAABdmJqOtqxBrV9GKvoutvAec9nC9f&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NTJBhDEARIsAB7QHD03V4H4fYKMZR9CIQmnm6Wkzf087L21DdDN0O3gt1NFmGciS1COG_kaAklnEALw_wcB)

[Psychological health regulations – Frequently asked questions | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/psychological-health-regulations-frequently-asked-questions)

[Psychosocial Health Hub | Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry](https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/services/health-safety-and-wellbeing/psychosocial-health-hub)

Contacts

[Psychosocial Hazard and Risk Awareness Training | Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry](https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/training-course/psychosocial-hazard-and-risk-awareness-training)

[Contact WorkSafe | WorkSafe Victoria](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/contact-worksafe)

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