Relational
Sexual harassment
The gap that prompted Safe Work Australia to decommission PAW (now required under Code)
The Culture Pressure Map covers every domain PAW measured, closes the gaps Safe Work Australia cited when decommissioning it, and adds the cultural-depth diagnostics from our peer-reviewed research.
Safe Work Australia cited inadequate coverage of sexual harassment and remote/isolated work as the primary reasons. CPM covers both.
Your previous PAW results aren't wasted. Every domain PAW measured corresponds to a hazard in the CPM framework — so the methodological thread of your psychosocial work continues unbroken.
| PAW item | CPM category | CPM hazard |
|---|---|---|
| Role overload | Work Design | High job demands |
| Role ambiguity | Work Design | Low role clarity |
| Role conflict | Work Design | Role conflict |
| Cognitive demand | Work Design | High job demands |
| Emotional demand | Cultural Blind Spots | Emotional labour CPM goes deeper — measures emotional labour as a hazard in its own right (peer-reviewed, HPJA 2024) |
| Job control | Work Design | Low job control |
| Supervisor support | Relational | Poor support — supervisor |
| Co-worker support | Relational | Poor co-worker support |
| Praise & recognition | Work Design | Inadequate reward & recognition |
| Procedural justice | Justice & Change | Procedural justice |
| Change consultation | Justice & Change | Change consultation |
| Workplace bullying | Relational | Bullying |
The first block is regulatory — these are hazards now mandated under SafeWork NSW or WorkSafe Vic that PAW didn't cover. The second block is the cultural-depth layer from our peer-reviewed research — items no PAW replacement has.
The gap that prompted Safe Work Australia to decommission PAW (now required under Code)
Specific Victorian requirement under Psychological Health Regulations 2025; not in PAW
The other gap that killed PAW
Now mandated by SafeWork NSW Code; absent from PAW
Beyond bullying; under SafeWork NSW Code
First-responder, healthcare, legal contexts
Required by Code; not in PAW
Pressure to perform a particular emotion or personality (peer-reviewed, 2023)
Espoused vs lived organisational values (peer-reviewed, HPJA 2024)
Individual-level identity safety
The diagnostic at the heart of the published CPM framework — measures the gap between what employees say in formal vs trusted settings
Morrison 2023 — likelihood that concerns get suppressed
Predicts further psychological injury claims following punitive responses
Overwork / silence / heroism / performative compliance
Whether managers buffer or amplify organisational pressure
Particularly relevant during AI-driven transformation
Early warning indicators of team-level deterioration
When you start your CPM trial, you can enter your most recent PAW domain scores as a baseline. Your first CPM Screening then shows a continuity line: where PAW left you, where CPM picks up. This means the psychosocial work you've already done with your organisation doesn't reset to zero.
Don't wait until 2 October. Export every PAW PDF report you have today — Safe Work Australia has confirmed all data will be permanently deleted at shutdown with no recovery option.
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