Work-related stress, fatigue and psychosocial harm
Sustained understaffing, long single-operator hours, and the mental-health toll of the work — including bullying and harassment between staff, which WorkSafe treats as a hazard in its own right. Slow-burn, and increasingly within regulator focus. This sits in a hazard register, not just an HR file, for a concrete reason: a worn-out person is a physical-safety risk, not only a wellbeing one. Fatigue is when the hand slips on the slicer, the hot pan gets misjudged, the wet-floor sign gets skipped. Chronic understaffing and solo doubles don't just wear people down — they lift the error rate on every other hazard on this list.
This is one hazard. Your register is the set that applies to you — under 20 questions, about five minutes, free.