Moral injury is increasingly recognised as a significant occupational hazard particularly for those working in high-risk environments such as health, emergency services, military, and justice. While much of the literature to date has focused on the individual impacts of moral injury and clinical responses, there has been limited exploration of how workplaces can adopt a proactive, systems-level approach to support mitigation and prevention.

This presentation introduces a newly developed organisational framework for moral injury risk mitigation, supporting prevention, grounded in contemporary research, suicidological insights, and lived experience perspectives. The framework provides a structured, evidence-based approach to embedding moral injury awareness and protective practices across organisational systems—including leadership, policy, culture, peer support, and training. Drawing on parallels with workplace health and safety models, it reframes moral injury from being solely an individual/clinical issue to a shared organisational responsibility and reflects the bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions of moral injury.

The presentation will demonstrate how the framework can be operationalised to identify risks, strengthen protective factors, and build organisational resilience. The session will highlight practical strategies for leaders and organisations to mitigate risk of moral injury, including early intervention pathways, workforce education, and creating positive cultures of ethical support.

By shifting the focus from treatment to mitigation/prevention, this organisational approach aims to reduce the long-term personal, cultural, and operational costs of moral injury, while fostering healthier, safer, and more sustainable workplaces.