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Many claims for workplace psych injuries come within three months of change, but this period can become a 'starting point' for mitigating risks, a trauma prevention strategist says.

"All new situations activate a level of anxiety in people, and while small levels of anxiety are needed to produce positive actions, too much can be overwhelming," says Kerry Howard in her book, How to Heal a Workplace.

It's well known that psychological injuries result in the longest time off work and are the costliest claims, yet organisations often neglect mitigating the risks early on because they "baulk at the idea of speaking openly about how they will handle potentially negative events in the future", Howard says...