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Psychosocial hazard kits for hospitality
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Not a generic template. Our psychosocial hazard kits for hospitality are built around the risks that actually show up across Australian hospitality, accommodation and tourism businesses — a researched risk assessment for each of the 17 psychosocial hazards, plus a matrix of 200+ risks for your workplace. Over 200 hours of work, already done.

✓Instant email delivery ✓100% editable ✓20+ industries
Psychosocial hazard kit for hospitality — cafe staff serving customers during service

This Digital Compliance Kit is specifically designed for Australian small to medium businesses.


85%Done for you before you open it
200+Hours of work you skip
17Hazard categories covered
37SOPs & policies pre-filled
Your responsibility as a business owner

Four duties, in this order — and each one has to be written down

1

Identify

Find every psychosocial hazard present in your work — all 17 categories, not just the obvious ones.

Evidence: hazard register
2

Assess

Rate the likelihood and consequence of each hazard for your workers, your sites and your shifts.

Evidence: risk assessment
3

Control

Eliminate the risk, or minimise it as far as reasonably practicable using the hierarchy of controls.

Evidence: SOPs & policies
4

Review

Consult your workers, check the controls are working, and review after any incident or change.

Evidence: review log
Miss any one of the four and the duty is not discharged. The kits give you the written evidence for all four.

What's inside the hospitality psychosocial hazard kits

The risk kit is over 200 hours of research and writing, already done. The SOPs & policies kit is 50+ hours — the controls, written down and ready to issue, and free with the risk kit for the first 100 businesses. Delivered by email as editable files.

Risk assessments kit

17 assessments · 100+ pages

200+ hours of research and writing, done

$699one-off, instant delivery

  • A complete risk assessment for each of the 17 psychosocial hazards
  • 5–6 pages each — hazard, rating and controls pre-filled
  • A matrix of 200+ researched risks for your industry
SOPs & policies kit

37 SOPs & Policies · 150+ pages

50+ hours of research and writing, done

$499one-off, instant delivery

  • 37 pre-filled SOPs and policies to edit, adjust or implement as they are
  • The crucial policy documentation supporting your compliance
  • Manager training and implementation guide
Launch offer — free SOPs kit ($499)

The first 100 businesses to buy the risk assessments kit receive the SOPs & policies kit free.

SOPs & policies kit — free

Both kits for $699 instead of $1,198. You save $499

Included either way

Hierarchy of controls training pack and the 90-day compliance pathway.

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Inside a hospitality psychosocial risk assessment

This is page 1 of 6 for the first psychosocial risk in the hospitality kit — PH-01, High Job Demands. Hazard, exposure, rating, controls and actions, all filled in.

Hospitality psychosocial hazard kit — PH-01 High Job Demands risk assessment, page 1
What you're looking at
Hazard already written up
In site language, not HR language.
Risk already rated
Likelihood × consequence, matrix included.
Controls already chosen
Higher-order first, the way regulators expect.
Actions already prioritised
Owner and due-date columns ready to fill.

Every SafeWize Risk Assessment Kit contains 17 of these documents, each one written for hospitality. Download PH-01 High Job Demands for hospitality and see for yourself.

Download sample risk assessment

Starting from scratch

×Research and identify hazards
×Write 17 risk assessments
×Build control measures
×Develop training content
×Work out where to start and in what order

200+ hours of work

After SafeWize

✓Hazards already identified for hospitality
✓17 risk assessments written and rated
✓A matrix of 200+ researched risks for your industry
✓Hierarchy of controls training included
✓90-day pathway to compliance

An afternoon of editing

Choose your kit

The hospitality kit — plus a kit for every operation.

The hospitality kit covers running the business — service peaks, understaffing, patron aggression, split rosters. Then, because a hotel's night audit carries different risks to a guided tour, we built a kit for each as well.

Start here if you run the business

Hospitality sector kit

For owners, venue and duty managers across food service, accommodation, tourism and travel. 17 hazard categories written around running a hospitality or tourism business — service peaks, roster churn, patron aggression, young workforce supervision.

Get the sector kit

Or take the kit for your operation

Not listed? We will build it. Purchase the industry kit and we will build yours for you.

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Why an industry-specific psychosocial hazard kit matters

Regulators expect controls based on the actual risk profile of the work — not generic statements. A template that could belong to any business is exactly what fails an audit.

Hospitality kit covers
Aggression from intoxicated patrons
Understaffing during service peaks
Unpredictable and split shifts
Sexual harassment risk in service roles
Young and casual workforce exposure
Close-alone and late-night work
A generic template covers
"Workload"
"Bullying and harassment"
"Poor support"
"Refer to the EAP"

Nothing an inspector can't see through.

Coming November 2026

Buying a kit now costs you nothing later.

Our full compliance system launches in November 2026. The $699 you spend on a kit today comes off it in full — so there's no reason to wait out your obligations.

Today
$699 — risk assessment kit

Done for you. 200+ hours of work you skip, documentation ready this week.

November
Upgrade to the full system

The complete compliance system — with your full $699 credited toward it.

Launch offer — first 100 businesses

The SOPs & Policies Kit, free.

First 100 businesses only. Buy the $699 risk kit and the full SOPs & Policies Kit — valued $499 — comes with it.

✓37 editable SOPs and policies — free
✓"Hard Conversations" workplace poster
✓Worker consultation survey pack
Hospitality industry kit
$699

One-time payment, instant email delivery. SOPs & Policies Kit ($499) included free.

Claim the free SOPs kit

Bonus ends once 100 businesses have claimed it.

Psychosocial hazard requirements for Australian hospitality businesses

Under the model Work Health and Safety Regulations, a person conducting a business or undertaking must identify psychosocial hazards, eliminate the risk so far as is reasonably practicable, and where elimination is not possible, minimise the risk using control measures. Since 1 December 2025 these duties have been enforceable in every Australian state and territory. From 1 July 2026, NSW businesses must comply with the approved Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work or demonstrate an equivalent standard.

Regulators expect control measures based on the actual risk profile of the work. Generic statements do not satisfy the duty, and higher-order controls that change the work itself are preferred over controls that ask the worker to cope. For a hospitality business, this means the assessment must address the hazards that arise in your workplace rather than describing workplace stress in the abstract.

Psychosocial hazards specific to hospitality

Hospitality concentrates psychosocial risk in the service peak. Understaffing during trade turns ordinary workload into sustained intensity, and split or unpredictable rosters prevent recovery between shifts. Aggression from intoxicated patrons is a foreseeable feature of licensed venues rather than an exceptional event, and close-alone work at the end of trade removes support at the point of highest risk. The workforce skews young and casual, which reduces the likelihood that hazards are reported at all — junior workers frequently do not know what they are entitled to raise. Sexual harassment risk in customer-facing roles is well documented across the sector, and the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act now requires employers to take proactive steps rather than respond to complaints.

The 17 psychosocial hazards covered

SafeWize hospitality kits include a separate risk assessment for each recognised psychosocial hazard, approximately 5 to 6 pages per hazard, with the hazard described in your industry's language, the risk rated, and controls selected and mapped to the hierarchy of controls. The full list is set out on the psychosocial kits page.

What documentation a regulator asks for

In a WHS investigation, documentary evidence determines the outcome. Inspectors typically ask for the psychosocial risk assessment, the control measures selected and their position in the hierarchy of controls, evidence of worker consultation, and records showing controls have been reviewed. A statement that the workplace culture is positive is not a defence and does not appear in an audit trail.

Authoritative sources

The obligations described on this page come from the model WHS Regulations and the psychosocial hazards Code of Practice. The primary sources are published by Safe Work Australia and the state and territory regulators:

Your regulator: SafeWork NSW · WorkSafe Victoria · WorkSafe Queensland · SafeWork SA · WorkSafe WA · WorkSafe Tasmania · WorkSafe ACT · NT WorkSafe · Comcare (Commonwealth)

SafeWize is not a regulator. The kits are compliance documentation, not legal advice. Always check the current requirements with the regulator in your jurisdiction.

Psychosocial hazard kits for hospitality — FAQs

Is a psychosocial risk assessment compliant in my state?

The kits are built to the model WHS framework and the psychosocial hazards Code of Practice, which every Australian state and territory now enforces. Enforceable psychosocial duties have applied nationally since 1 December 2025, and NSW businesses must comply with the approved Code of Practice, or demonstrate an equivalent standard, from 1 July 2026.

How much work is left for me to do?

Roughly 15 per cent. You delete what does not apply to your workplace, add your business name and sign off on the controls. Most businesses finish a kit in an afternoon.

Do I still need a WHS consultant?

Not to produce the documentation. The kits provide the risk assessments, the controls matrix, the SOPs and the policies a regulator asks for, which is the part consultants normally bill 500 or more hours to write.

Why does the kit need to be specific to hospitality?

Regulators expect control measures based on the actual risk profile of the work rather than generic statements. Hospitality concentrates psychosocial risk in the service peak. A template that could belong to any business is the kind of document that fails an audit.

Should I wait for the full compliance system?

No. Psychosocial duties are already enforceable. Buy either kit now and the full amount you paid is credited against the SafeWize compliance system when it launches in November 2026.

Stop starting from scratch.

Done for you. Not generic templates.

Get the hospitality kit