The Culture Pressure Map™ is the only psychosocial risk diagnostic built specifically for organisational culture. It pairs a frontstage-aware screening survey with a structured ethnographic investigation toolkit — the two-stage method our peer-reviewed research shows is required to find what's actually hurting your people. The findings flow into psychosocial hazard identification, risk assessment and the reporting now expected by boards, regulators and insurers.
Our 2024 peer-reviewed research in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia makes the case directly: surveys produce static manifestations of cultural knowledge. They surface what employees feel safe enough to say in a structured form. They miss the back stage sites of enactment — the microcultures where psychosocial pressure actually lives.
That's why People at Work (PAW) was never enough. It's why “build a better PAW” won't be enough either.
CPM is the only platform built around what the research actually says you need: a screening layer to find the hotspots, then an ethnographic investigation layer to understand what's actually happening inside them.
Two diagnostic stages built directly from the published CPM framework, plus the action layer most tools forget.
A 78-item instrument across 3 culture layers (Ethos · Subcultures · Microcultures) covering all 15 SafeWork NSW psychosocial hazards plus the Vic gendered-violence requirement, plus seven IJWHM signature indices. Tells you where the pressure is concentrated. ~12 mins per respondent.
For every hotspot the Screening reveals, CPM guides your PCBU through a structured ethnographic investigation — field journal, rich-points log, microculture mapper, integration-vs-differentiation panel, reflexivity tracker. The signature CPM diagnostic. No competitor has this.
34+ evidence-based interventions mapped to each hazard and each signature index, plus a regulator-ready report combining quantitative and ethnographic findings — the documentary record SafeWork or WorkSafe needs to see.
A unique combination: full regulatory coverage, the PAW gaps closed, and the signature diagnostic constructs from the published CPM framework.
78 items, 3 culture layers, 5 hazard categories, 17 regulated hazards. Anonymous, segmented by department.
Field journal, rich-points log, microculture mapper, reflexivity tracker — the methodology from the Cultural Blind Spots paper, in software.
3 layers × 5 categories heatmap plus a dedicated panel for the 7 CPM signature indices.
Includes the hazards PAW couldn't — sexual harassment, remote/isolated work, gendered violence, normative control, emotional labour.
One report combines Stage 1 quantitative findings with Stage 2 ethnographic evidence. Built to stand up to a regulator or a court.
Optional access to organisational ethnographers to run Stage 2 Research and Analysis.
1 June 2026 — no new PAW registrations. 1 July 2026 — no new surveys. 2 October 2026 — platform shuts down, all organisational data deleted.
Safe Work Australia decommissioned PAW because it doesn't cover sexual harassment, remote/isolated work, or the new compliance cycle requirements. CPM closes those gaps — and adds the ethnographic depth no PAW replacement has.
Migrate from PAW →Start with the Starter tier. Upgrade when you're running real diagnostics. Call us when the regulator is on the phone.
For solo PCBUs and small teams running a regular pulse.
For in-house WHS / HR teams running regular diagnostics.
For organisations facing a regulator, an incident, or active litigation.
Start with the Culture Pressure Map Screening. Add the Culture Pressure Map Investigation when the Screening flags something the survey can't fully see. Or call us when the regulator is already on the phone.