Principles that apply to work health and safety duties The model WHS Act sets out principles that apply to all work health and safety duties under the model WHS Act (sections 13-17). This includes a PCBU’s primary duty to ensure the health and safety of …
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Campaigns National Safe Work Month We have delivered a National Safe Work Month campaign annually in October since 2009. National Safe Work Month aims to improve the wider community’s awareness and knowledge of WHS and workers’ compensation by providing …
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2025 World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers’ Memorial Day In 2025, the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) World Day theme will focus on the impacts of digitalisation and artificial intelligence on workers’ health and safety and will …
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Safety by topic A-Z hazard library Managing health and safety Industries … A-Z hazard library Managing health and safety Industries … Find information about health and safety topics that are important to your workplace …
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Research Summit Event Privacy Collection Notice SWA website privacy notice for the event This notice describes how Safe Work Australia (SWA) collects and manages personal information. Safe Work Australia runs research events to promote partnerships …
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Our Agency We are jointly funded by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments through an Intergovernmental Agreement. We are an inclusive, tripartite body—we work collaboratively with governments, employers and workers—to drive national policy …
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Corporate publications
Corporate publications and resources Annual report The Safe Work Australia Annual Report is published to inform Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and …
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Corporate publications
AI Transparency statement Safe Work Australia is developing its maturity and potential use cases for AI. While those use cases remain under consideration, AI usage is limited at the Agency. When discussing AI, we apply the Organisation for Economic …
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Be Silica Smart. Workers in construction, manufacturing, tunnelling, demolition, mining, quarrying and stonemasonry can be exposed to silica dust at work. Work activities that can produce silica dust include: creating, installing and changing engineered …
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Occupational lung diseases Four key industries most at risk of occupational lung diseases include: Artificial and natural stone workers can be exposed to silica dust (also known as respirable crystalline silica, or RCS) in all parts of their work process …