Is AI creating mental health risks in your workplace?
Artificial intelligence is already changing how work is designed, allocated and monitored in Australian workplaces. Those changes can create psychosocial risks that sit squarely within your existing work health and safety duties.
Understand where your exposure sits — before it becomes a compliance issue.
Most employers have assessed the technology. Far fewer have assessed the impact on their people.
AI tools are entering workplaces through procurement, through individual teams, and often through employees using them informally. Few organisations have a complete picture of where AI is being used, how it is changing work, or whether workers have been consulted about it.
Meanwhile, psychosocial hazards are now an explicit compliance obligation. The duty to identify and manage them does not pause because the hazard arrived through new technology.
Where AI most often creates psychosocial risk
Work intensification
AI raises the pace and volume of work. Targets rise, recovery time shrinks.
Monitoring and surveillance
Productivity tracking and automated monitoring change how workers experience being watched.
Lack of consultation
AI is introduced to workers rather than with them, despite consultation being a WHS duty.
Job insecurity
Uncertainty about whether AI will replace or reshape a role is a hazard in itself.
Weak human oversight
If no one can review or challenge an AI-driven decision, accountability disappears.
Automation bias
Workers over-trust AI outputs. Errors go unchallenged and pressure lands on the person, not the system.
Check your AI risk
The AI & Mental Health Risk Check is a practical self-assessment covering all six risk areas. Work through it with your WHS, HR or leadership team to identify where the gaps are and what to prioritise.
Built by Australian Industry Group's WHS consultants. Takes about 10 minutes.
- 15 questions across seven sections
- Your score calculates automatically
- Interpretation guidance and a three-action plan
- Interactive PDF — complete it on screen and share it
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