World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2026
Ensuring a healthy psychosocial working environment
Raising awareness of workplace safety and health is an essential foundation, but meaningful progress requires action. Organisations must move beyond understanding towards implementation, addressing legal responsibilities, organisational resilience and human impact by tackling both physical and psychosocial risks.
This year, for World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the International Labour Organization (ILO) calls for a healthy psychosocial working environment. Psychosocial factors – such as workload and working time, role clarity, autonomy, support and fair and transparent processes – strongly influence how work is experienced and affect workers’ safety, health and performance.
The focus is shifting towards how work is experienced in practice – recognising that culture, workload, leadership and environment all play a role in shaping safe and healthy workplaces.
IIRSM has a wide range of resources for organisations interested in learning more about psychosocial risks and making positive change:
The Sentinel magazine
IIRSM Branch meetings
Personal resilience, stress and mental health
Protecting your mental health and dealing with burnout
Managing stress risks in the workplace
IIRSM Professional Development Webinars
Assessing and managing psychosocial risk
How do you mitigate psychosocial risk in the workplace
Managing psychological health, safety and wellbeing in the workplace
WPO and IIRSM report
The Impact of Psychological Safety on Employee Engagement and Risk Management
WPO and IIRSM workshop
Linking Workplace Psychosocial Risk & Psychological Safety: A Senior Leaders' Workshop
WPO Psychosocial Risk Screener
Related Resources
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