This page is an educational summary for professionals working with AI. It is not the law and not legal advice. Always work from the current authoritative text linked below.
What do the Victorian Psychological Health Regulations do?
Made under section 158 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, they commenced on 1 December 2025. Regulation 14 requires employers, so far as is reasonably practicable, to identify psychosocial hazards; regulation 15 sets the controls hierarchy; regulation 16 requires review of control measures against six defined triggers. The in-force text is version 001 on the Victorian legislation register.
Who does it bind?
Employers. Act compliance notes tie regulations 14 to 16 back to the section 21 duty, regulation 6 extends them to independent contractors and their employees for matters the employer controls, and regulation 9 governs how health and safety representatives are involved in consultation.
What do practitioners get wrong?
Merging regulations 15(3) and 15(4). Exclusive use of information, instruction or training is permitted only if no regulation 15(2)(a) measure is reasonably practicable; in any combination, the training-type measure must not be predominant, and that ban is unconditional. Practitioners also assume a written prevention plan duty exists; the made Regulations contain none.
Where does AI use touch it?
AI-driven pacing, monitoring and task allocation sit inside work design, systems of work and management of work, three sources in regulation 4's psychosocial hazard definition; high job demands and low job control are listed examples. See AI pace and work intensification, risk register AI trigger routing and psychosocial hazards.
Bottom line
Identify, control, review: those are the duties. Apply the regulation 15 hierarchy exactly as split, and do not invent prevention plan obligations the instrument never made.
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