On 2 October 2026, the People at Work (PAW) psychosocial-risk survey is being decommissioned by SafeWork Australia and the state regulators. If your organisation has been using PAW to meet the SafeWork NSW Code of Practice or the Vic Psychological Health Regulations, you need a defensible replacement — and you need somewhere for your existing PAW data to land.
The SafeWork NSW Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work (2022) and the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations(2025) both remain in force — with or without PAW. Every Australian employer with a duty under those instruments is still expected to identify, assess, and control the 14 listed psychosocial hazards, document what they’ve done, and be able to produce evidence on request.
PAW filled that requirement with a free, government-provided instrument. The Culture Pressure Map™ is the purpose-built paid alternative — every hazard PAW covered plus three more (including the Vic Psychological Health Regs additions), a defensible board- and regulator-grade report, and a three-culture-layer diagnostic (Ethos, Subcultures, Microcultures) PAW never provided.
Before 2 October 2026, extract your PAW reports from the platform — the reminder email from SafeWork includes a link to the download guide.
Drop your PAW report, engagement surveys, workshop notes, exit interviews and WHS reports into one secure locker. Every file, every category, one place.
One click and every finding is mapped against the CPM psychosocial-hazard framework, with a board-grade PDF ready to download.
Every SafeWork NSW hazard PAW covered, plus the three Vic Psychological Health Regs additions (gendered violence, plus the identity-threat and cultural-blind-spot categories that PAW never touched).
PAW gave you one aggregate score per hazard. CPM decomposes each hazard across Ethos (values & policy), Subcultures (site/department), and Microcultures (team-level) — so you can see where cultural pressure actually lives.
Focus groups, exit interviews, workshop notes and complaints are auto-mapped to the same framework — so your engagement survey and your back-stage evidence sit side-by-side in one report.
Every diagnostic view exports as a paste-ready PDF. No handwritten formatting, no reconciling between systems. Attach one PDF to the board pack or the regulator response.
PAW was a point-in-time survey. CPM is a working diagnostic — as new data comes in, the picture updates. You see cultural shift as it happens, not twelve months later.
Every upload, every report, every change is logged. Every file is encrypted, scoped to your organisation, and downloadable at any time. The provenance PAW users used to trust from the government now sits inside CPM.
The earlier you upload your PAW data, the sooner you have a defensible view of your psychosocial risk profile in a framework the regulator recognises — and the more room you have to run a full Culture Pressure Map™ Screening before the 2 October cut-off.
Direct line: info@mindculturelife.com.au