This episode examines how decades of institutional denial shape today’s failures in managing psychosocial hazards. Drawing on lived experience and historical context, it traces how schools and workplaces normalised silence, minimised harm, and protected reputations rather than people, and how those attitudes still echo in modern organisational culture. It’s a reminder that psychosocial risk isn’t new; only our excuses are.
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