Every work-related injury, illness and fatality has a human impact, affecting workers, families and communities. National Safe Work Month provides an opportunity to pause, reflect and take practical steps to prevent harm before it happens.
This week, National Safe Work Month focuses on For life: why WHS matters, encouraging workplaces to reconnect with the purpose behind WHS and the role everyone plays in creating safe and healthy work.
The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2033 sets a national vision of safe and healthy work for all. Achieving that vision means embedding WHS into everyday decisions about how work is planned, managed and carried out.
To help start the conversation, workplaces can use the activities in the 2026 National Safe Work Month activity kit to discuss what safe and healthy work means to them, identify workplace hazards and explore practical improvements that could prevent harm. This week also includes World Mental Health Day on 10 October, providing an opportunity to reflect on psychosocial health and safety at work.
Get involved:
- Watch the Week 1 campaign video
- Talk with workers about why WHS matters in your workplace
- Identify one opportunity to make your workplace safer or healthier
- Complete the What are you working safely for? activity and share responses across your workplace.