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Taking action to improve psychosocial safety after an incident can "come back and bite" an employer, a workplace lawyer warns, amid heightened regulator activity.

"It's clear the regulators are paying increased attention in this space," King & Wood Mallesons' senior consultant Brett Feltham tells a new HR Daily Premium webcast.

"It used to be, historically, that a regulator would investigate something as a result of a mandatory notification, or even perhaps because someone made a direct complaint to them," he says.

"But what we're seeing is that regulators are also looking at media reports and press coverage... then they may well look to investigate off the back of that alone"...