This information sheet provides details about what workers’ compensation is.
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Safe work practices, like having a cuppa, happen daily. Use the SafeTea tea room poster in your workplace this October.
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Use the video call background when you host a virtual SafeTea event for your workplace.
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Get creative by decorating your SafeTeacup! You could wrap your teacup in caution tape, safety stickers or even a tiny high vis vest.
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Use the event checklist to plan a SafeTea for your workplace.
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What is SafeTea?
It all starts with a conversation. SafeTea brings workplaces together by encouraging your team to have a chat about WHS over a cuppa.
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Safe Work Australia has released the theme and campaign kit for National Safe Work Month 2022 ahead of the official campaign launch on 1 October.
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Join National Safe Work Month 2024
Follow these steps to do your bit to foster safe and healthy workplaces across Australia. Click on the steps below to find out how you can participate in National Safe Work Month 2024.
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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.
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This National Safe Work Month, Safe Work Australia asked workplaces across the country to make health and safety a permanent part of their workplace culture.
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How can I get involved?
There are many ways to get your workplace involved in National Safe Work Month.
Watch the video to find out how!
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Occupational lung diseases are conditions of the respiratory system caused by workplace exposure to dusts, gases, fumes and vapours.
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Sunday 10 October is World Mental Health Day and marks the start of National Safe Work Month’s focus on mental health.
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Supporting information
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This National Safe Work Month, Safe Work Australia encourages all Australians to make health and safety a central part of their workplace culture by thinking safe, working safe and being safe.
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National Safe Work Month officially starts today!
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This National Safe Work Month, Safe Work Australia encourages all Australians to make health and safety a central part of their workplace culture by thinking safe, working safe and being safe.
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Every year in October, Safe Work Australia invites workplaces to take part and focus on health and safety at work during National Safe Work Month.
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A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must, so far as reasonably practicable, identify and manage any risks to health and safety in the workplace.
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A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), he has a duty under work health and safety (WHS) laws to minimise the risks to his workers’ health in the workplace.
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An information sheet about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 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.
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An information sheet about Q fever 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.
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An information sheet about asbestosis and mesothelioma 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.
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This week we re-visit the WHS fundamentals, focusing on proactively managing WHS risks. Risk management is integral to a safe and healthy workplace.
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Week 2 of National Safe Work Month takes a deep dive into understanding psychosocial hazards at work and how to manage the risks.
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Think safe, work safe, be safe on the farm.
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As the composition of workplaces changes so too can the safety risks and hazards. Have you reviewed your control measures lately to keep your workers’ safe?
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Think safe, work safe, be safe by ensuring all workers know how to stay safe and healthy in the workplace.
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These workers need a safety induction too so they can think safe, work safe, be safe.
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This week we get back to basics by unpacking the fundamentals of good WHS practice.
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Safe Work Australia has released the theme and campaign kit for National Safe Work Month 2021 ahead of the official campaign launch on 1 October.
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October is National Safe Work Month – a time to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces for all Australians.
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Whatever the industry or workplace – every organisation can join National Safe Work Month and commit to keeping people safe and healthy at work. This information sheet includes a list of things you can do during National Safe Work Month in October to champion work health and safety in your workplace.
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