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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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 …
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Deliver yourself home safely Provide feedback on the Deliver Yourself Home Safely campaign Did you find this page useful? Yes No How was the page useful? It was well written The layout or style made it easy to read The content makes sense It was …
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Workers’ compensation for psychological injuries Workers’ compensation coverage of psychological injuries Workers’ compensation is available for physical and psychological injury and disease. An injured worker may be able to receive workers’ …
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Permanent impairment What are permanent impairment benefits in workers’ compensation? When someone sustains a workplace injury it may result in a permanent impairment. Workers’ compensation schemes may offer a lump sum compensation payment for permanent …
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