Monitoring intended to support psychosocial safety can become a problem if workers experience it as intrusive individual surveillance. A safer design starts with a narrow WHS purpose, minimises fields, works at team level, protects small groups and keeps worker consultation central.
Comcare identifies intrusive surveillance as a psychosocial hazard. The design goal should therefore be the minimum evidence needed for a legitimate WHS decision, not the maximum data a workplace system can expose.
Aggregated team-level patterns can support questions about workload, meetings, after-hours work and coordination without turning the system into a person-level productivity ranking tool.
Comcare identifies intrusive surveillance as a psychosocial hazard and describes potential effects on stress, trust, autonomy, work intensity and worker wellbeing. Applicable duties and definitions depend on jurisdiction and circumstances.
It can be designed that way, but metadata alone is not enough. Purpose limitation, field minimisation, aggregation, group-size protections, access controls and clear prohibited uses are also needed.
SignalTrue is designed for aggregated team-level work-pattern evidence rather than individual productivity ranking or psychological profiling.