ADDRESS: APS Psychosocial Hazard Suite

The ADDRESS APS Psychosocial Hazard Suite provides APS agencies with a practical, scalable model to respond to psychosocial hazards in their agency. ADDRESS supports agencies to utilise their existing data (for example, APS Employee Census results), and incorporates resources and tools that enable assessment and intervention of risks at both an organisational level and a team or branch level. ADDRESS is aligned with the risk management process set out in the Federal Register of Legislation - Work Health and Safety (Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work) Code of Practice 2024.

This program supports APS agencies to align with the APS Mental Health Capability Framework. The framework is a tailored, systems-based approach to building mental health and suicide prevention capability within the APS. It provides an overarching architecture for agencies to use as a base from which to build mental health capability, while remaining flexible and adaptable to agency-specific needs. Other practitioner courses to support framework alignment can be accessed through the APS Mental Health Capability Hub.

The APS Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit provides APS agencies aligning their practices to the framework with coaching and support. Contact MHSP@apsc.gov.au with questions or requests for assistance. Note: The Unit does not provide clinical advice on specific staffing matters. APS staff seeking guidance on the mental health and wellbeing supports available to them should contact their agency's human resources area.

This learning experience has been provided by the APS Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit, Australian Public Service Commission. © Commonwealth of Australia 2023.

Considerations

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These resources designed to be read in conjunction with one another and not designed to be reviewed in isolation.
Some content contains discussion on psychological trauma and adversity, distress, suicide and self-harm. If you are emotionally impacted by the information presented, please seek support and speak with your team leader/manager or human resources area. Support is also available from:
- your agency’s Employee Assistance Program
- Lifeline on 13 11 14 or by text on 0477 13 11 14 (available 24/7)
- 13YARN on 13 92 76 (available 24/7) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 (available 24/7).