Introduction

In this episode, we chat with Angela Martin, Founder and Principal Consultant of Pracademia, and current Professorial Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. Angela gives us a comprehensive insight into the challenges small and micro businesses face in implementing psych health and safety strategies and describes some of the significant psychosocial hazards to which small business owners are exposed. Angela then points us to some excellent, free resources available to assist small businesses meet their psych health and safety obligations for their employees, as well as resources designed to support small business owners in practical ways. She also describes how larger businesses can support the psych health and safety of their supply chain providers through simple policy changes, and shares some information about upcoming small business supports currently in development.