The PAW psychosocial risk assessment survey and platform will be decommissioned over the next 12 months.

Due to changes in legislation, newly developed tools and updated research on psychosocial hazards, the PAW survey may no longer fully meet the needs of organisations and small businesses seeking to explore psychosocial hazards in their workplace.

Users will be able to create new accounts on the PAW platform until 1 June 2026. Organisations will have until 1 July to launch final new surveys. They will need to close all surveys and extract their reports before 2 October.

Frequently asked questions

Since the launch of PAW, there have been changes in legislation, newly developed tools and updated research on psychosocial hazards.

Due to the changing environment, the PAW survey may no longer fully meet the needs of organisations and small businesses seeking to explore psychosocial hazards in their workplace. It was found that:

  • People at Work requires modification to adequately address additional hazards identified in the Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work (i.e., sexual harassment and isolated work). (external site)
  • Recent survey cycles suggest a gradual decline in staff engagement and response rates, which may be reducing the overall impact of the survey.
  • Some users have shared that the post-survey People at Work report could offer more detail to better support targeted action and meaningful organisational change.
  • The survey re-design and update of resources would require dedicated investment.
  • New research has informed evidence-based tools that now offer shorter, more precise ways to assess psychosocial hazards.

The decommissioning of PAW is being conducted over a 10-month period to allow for organisations to complete any existing surveys, and to retrieve any associated reporting.

Key dates

1 June 2026

Final date for new accounts or organisations to register on the PAW Platform.

1 July 2026

Final date for new surveys to be launched.

2 October 2026

Final date for organisations to access the online platform. Organisations need to extract all PAW reports before this date.

Access our guide on how to export PAW reports before 2 October 2026.

Users of PAW can obtain their data via the reports from the website using the methodology outlined in the guide to export PAW reports. All other data will be removed from the platform when it is decommissioned. To ensure the privacy and anonymity of survey respondents, no raw data is available for download.

Deidentified data currently used to inform industry comparisons within PAW will continue to be utilised by participating jurisdictions, including South Australia.  These jurisdictions will receive the final deidentified data set from the survey for research purposes, and the Office of Industrial Relations will remain the data custodian for the dataset.

The national PAW website will be closed.

Alternatives to the PAW survey can be found here (PDF).

If you have any questions, please contact the Help Centre on help.safework@sa.gov.au. If you are outside of South Australia, you can direct questions to your state’s work health and safety regulator.