This fact sheet shares practical ways employers can reduce workers’ compensation stigma. Employers and human resources (HR) have a role in promoting positive and inclusive work environments that support injured or ill workers.

Use this fact sheet to understand workers' compensation stigma and its impact in the workplace.

Employers and human resources (HR) have a role in promoting positive and inclusive work environments that support injured or ill workers.

Information for supervisors about practical ways they can help reduce workers’ compensation stigma and support workers to claim workers’ compensation. 

This fact sheet shares practical ways workers can reduce workers’ compensation stigma. 

Use this fact sheet to help understand how workers’ compensation may help you and what some of the benefits of the scheme are.

This fact sheet provides details about what workers’ compensation is and how it can help you.

Download the campaign kit above to access a .ZIP file containing a range of communication resources to help promote awareness of workers’ compensation stigma and how to take action to reduce it.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for employers to take action to reduce workers’ compensation stigma.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for supervisors to take action to reduce workers’ compensation stigma.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for workers.

The maximum monetary penalties comparison table summarises a sample of monetary penalties from the model WHS Act and the jurisdictions that have adopted the model WHS Act. It also includes a table summarising equivalent penalties in Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (2004).

Health and safety representatives (HSRs) play an important role in representing workers on health and safety. This infographic outlines the role of HSRs and the duties of PCBU’s to support them. 

This infographic outlines the duties PCBUs have to consult with workers and their representatives on health and safety matters, including when consultation must occur. Consultation is a legal requirement under WHS laws.

Consulting with workers and their representatives on health and safety matters is a legal requirement under WHS laws. This infographic outlines some of the ways you might consult with workers and their representatives in your workplace.    

A resource to illustrate how to manage WHS risks relating to COVID-19 at work and the control measures that may assist to manage the risks. 

An infographic which demonstrates the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for food delivery workers to be safe at work. 

Slips, trips and falls result in tens of thousands of injuries every year in Australian workplaces.

This infosheet has information about managing the risks of slips, trips and falls.
 

This information sheet provides details about how workers’ compensation helps.

See also:

What is workers’ compensation?
 

This information sheet provides details about what workers’ compensation is. 

See also:

Under WHS laws, PCBUs must eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks so far as is reasonably practicable.

If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must consult with workers and other duty holders in managing work health and safety risks.

This report investigates whether a short term exposure limit (STEL) should be implemented to complement the workplace exposure standard (WES) of 0.05 mg/m³ for respirable crystalline silica.

This report investigates the challenges of measuring airborne concentrations of respirable crystalline silica in Australian workplaces at and below 0.02 mg/m³.

Air monitoring might be needed to make sure that your workers are not exposed to airborne concentrations of a substance above the workplace exposure standard.

Managing work health and safety risks is on ongoing process that requires your attention over time, but particularly when changes to work processes are implemented.

A persons conducting a business or undertaking have a duty under the model WHS laws to eliminate, or if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise health and safety risks in the workplace so far as is reasonably practicable.

Risk management is a proactive process that helps you respond to change and facilitate continuous improvement in your business. It should be planned, systematic and cover all reasonably foreseeable hazards and associated risks.

This summary presents highlights from the 2021 National Return to Work Survey including key metrics, insights and time series data. The summary also includes a section on COVID-19 and its impact on recovery and return to work.

Exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a risk for anyone who works outside. Solar UVR is not only a hazard when working in direct sunlight, it can also be reflected off certain materials, such as concrete, metal, snow and sand.

The principles are part of the National Exemption Framework document package and have been developed to help guide the exemption decision making process. Exemptions must be granted only in the manner as set out in the WHS legislation and can only be made by state and territory WHS regulators.

This guide is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and explains the powers to grant exemptions from the requirements of the WHS Regulations. This guide should be read in conjunction with material provided by your state or territory WHS regulator.

This template is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document sent to applicants once the work health and safety regulator has made a decision about an exemption application.

This example application is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document which must be completed prior to lodgement of an exemption application to your jurisdictional work health and safety regulator.

This report provides a summary of key measures from the 2021 National Return to Work Survey – the ‘returned to work rate’ and the ‘current return to work rate’.

Watch Safe Work Australia CEO, Michelle Baxter deliver a keynote presentation at Comcare’s national forum on sexual harassment.

This paper analyses the complex nature of workers’ compensation coverage in Australia. The paper considers whether current workers’ compensation coverage arrangements in Australia remain fit for purpose, by using gig economy and agriculture industry case studies.

Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

Occupational lung diseases are work-related lung conditions of the respiratory system. 

Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

Video Summary:

Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

Work-related traumatic injury fatalities Australia 2020 report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work. This report does not include fatalities that occurred while the worker was commuting to or from work (commuter fatalities).

An information sheet about coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and mine dust diseases including the symptoms, causes and risk factors as well as information for persons conducting a business on undertaking on how to manage these risks at work.

Use this template to write a

As part of the first phase of national initiatives under the

Professor Parker discusses the principles of good work design, why they are important, and how we can use them to make workplaces safer and improve workers’ wellbeing.

You can use this template to prepare a 

Workplace bullying remains a serious problem in many Australian workplaces, costing individuals and organisations in poor productivity, absenteeism and mental stress. 

Today’s society is increasingly focused on a 24/7 economy and the expectations on people to work at all hours of the day have increased.