Science-led tools for safer, more comfortable workplaces

Psychosocial Risk Toolkit

by Sana Essencia

Plan psychosocial controls room by room, using the HSE Management Standards, the Workplace Regulations and an evidence-graded environment layer. Scent is optional and sits last, behind a consent gate.

RefSE-PRT-UK

Version1.0

Content checked31 Oct 2026

Room planner

Choose a room and the Management Standards where problems are showing. The plan follows the order a competent assessor would use: remove the cause first, then improve the room, then consider comfort measures.

Step AWhich room?

Step BWhere are problems showing?

Step CComfort layer Include the optional scent layer

Room plan

Meeting room

Fix the cause: organisational controls

From the HSE Management Standards. These carry the most weight in a suitable and sufficient assessment.

Improve the room: environmental controls

The Demands standard includes the work environment. Each control shows its legal anchor and evidence grade.

Optional comfort layer: scent

Never a control for a psychosocial hazard. Use only where staff want it and every check below is met.

Make it routine

HSE Working Minds: the 5 Rs, applied to this room.

Evidence register

What the research supports, graded plainly so you can cite it in a report. Environmental factors with the strongest evidence come first; scent comes last because its evidence is the weakest and it carries a known risk.

Established Regulator guidance plus controlled studies Supported Controlled or field studies, consistent direction Emerging Small lab studies, effects vary by person Known risk Population evidence of harm

Factor	What the studies found	Grade	Use it for

How Sana Essencia positions scentScent can make a room feel more pleasant and may lift mood or alertness for some people. It does not treat stress and it does not replace any control in steps 1 and 2. About one in four UK adults report health problems from fragranced products, so scent is always opt-in, local, low and switch-offable.

For consultants

Offer the Psychosocial Risk Toolkit to your clients under your own name. You keep the client relationship; Sana Essencia keeps the content current as the law changes.

What you get

Your name on every plan. Plans and copied text carry your consultancy name, with "Powered by Sana Essencia" underneath.
A site-visit tool. Build a room plan with the client during a walk-round, then paste it into your report.
A ready L&D session. The team room check runs in 15 minutes and produces actions with owners.
A citable evidence register. Graded plainly, with sources, so clients see the reasoning.
Updates as the law moves. For example, the Employment Rights Act 2025 harassment duties that started on 30 October 2026.
A referral share. You earn a commission on any Sana Essencia product your clients buy.

Try it with your name

Type your consultancy name to see how plans will look to your clients.

Consultancy name

Talk to us

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Psychosocial Risk Toolkit

Room planner

Meeting room

Fix the cause: organisational controls

Improve the room: environmental controls

Optional comfort layer: scent

Make it routine

Team room check

Team scores

Room profile

The law, explained

Why clients are asking now

30 October 2026: harassment duties tightened

Evidence register

For consultants

What you get

Try it with your name