19 September 2022 |
Infographic
Under the model WHS laws, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), such as an employer, must eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
The things at work that can harm mental health are known as…
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- Managing health and safety
- Mental health
- National Safe Work Month
Page last updated: 13 Oct 2022
05 September 2022 |
Infographic
The first step in the risk management process is to identify the hazards. Your workers may talk about their exposure to psychosocial hazards in different ways. This infographic can help you think about how your workers might describe psychosocial hazards.
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- Managing health and safety
- Mental health
Page last updated: 13 Sep 2023
01 August 2022 |
Model Codes of Practice
Under WHS laws, PCBUs must eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
To have legal effect in a jurisdiction, the model Code of Practice must be approved as a code of practice in that jurisdiction. Check with your WHS…
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- Managing health and safety
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 13 Oct 2022
03 December 2021 |
Video and audio
Watch Safe Work Australia CEO, Michelle Baxter deliver a keynote presentation at Comcare’s national forum on sexual harassment. Michelle discusses how sexual harassment at work has been dealt with in the past and what needs to change, positive duties in…
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- Health and wellbeing
- Mental health
- Workplace sexual harassment
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 27 Jan 2022
08 October 2021 |
Infographic
This infographic shows how to apply the four-step risk management process to manage psychosocial hazards.
Under the model WHS laws, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), such as an employer, must eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks…
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Health, illness and disease
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 12 Sep 2023
21 September 2021 |
Infographic
This infographic shows how to apply the risk management process to manage psychosocial hazards
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- Disease and illness
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Risk management
- Health, illness and disease
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 01 Aug 2022
11 June 2021 |
Statistical reports
This is the sixth annual national statement issued by Safe Work Australia to identify trends in psychosocial health and safety and bullying in Australian workplaces.
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
09 June 2021 |
Fact sheets
This fact sheet provides information for workers on rights and duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws and what to do if you experience online abuse in the workplace.
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- Bullying
- Mental health
- Workplace violence
Page last updated: 12 Apr 2023
27 May 2021 |
Resources
This framework provides practical and evidence-based guidance to assist workers' compensation insurers and claims managers to better support workers with a psychological injury.
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- Mental health
- Return to work
- Workers' compensation
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
18 May 2021 |
Fact sheets
This fact sheet provides information for employers on duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws to manage the risk of online abuse in the workplace.
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- Bullying
- Mental health
- Workplace violence
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 12 Apr 2023
05 February 2021 |
Information sheet
This information sheet provides simple and practical guidance to support small business meet their work health and safety (WHS) duties to manage health and safety risks from workplace violence and aggression.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Risk management
- Workplace violence
Page last updated: 01 Aug 2022
07 January 2021 |
Resources
Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.
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- Classifying chemicals
- Hazardous chemical registers
- Hazardous chemicals GHS 7
- Labelling chemicals
- Safety data sheets
Page last updated: 16 Jun 2023