The Summary of Workers’ Compensation Scheme Developments in Australia and New Zealand 2024 has been published.

This report outlines recent developments in workers’ compensation schemes in Australia and New Zealand between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, including any significant changes to: 

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.

List of non-procurement contracts entered into by Safe Work Australia which provide for a consideration of $100,000 or more and which: 

Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 24-008.

Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. 

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The Safe Work Australia Agency highlights report contains a summary of our census results on key questions as well as providing a comparison to similar agencies and our past results.

The Australian Public Service Employee Census is an annual survey administered by the Australian Public Service Commission. The survey is used to collect confidential attitude and opinion information from APS employees on issues in the workplace.

Our 2023-24 Annual Report was tabled in Parliament today, 24 October, 2024.

Our 2023-24 Annual Report informs Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements across Australia. 

The Australian Government released the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy in November 2023, setting out the overall approach and action required by Commonwealth entities to

This Emissions Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy, associated guidance and reporting standards for annual emissions

The August edition of the Safe Work Australia Quarterly News Update is now available.

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Safe Work Australia has published the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2033 Baseline Report, which explores the baseline WHS context for Australia in 2023

Section 15(3) of the Public Service Act 1999 requires that agencies establish written procedures for determining whether an APS employee, or a former APS employee, in the Agency has breached the Code of Conduct and the sanction (if any) that is to be imposed on an APS employee in the Agency who i

The Safe Work Australia Enterprise Agreement 2024-20

On 15 March 2024, salary scales in the Public Service (Subsection 24(1)—Safe Work Australia Non-SES Employees) Determination 2023 were superseded by the 

Safe Work Australia has published new information identifying trends in psychological health in workplaces. 

The Psychological health and safety in the workplace report highlights the changing impact of work-related psychological injuries in Australia. During 2021-22p:

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The February edition of the

Safe Work Australia has updated the Family and domestic violence at work information sheet to reflect changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 aro

Safe Work Australia has redesigned the preliminary fatalities dashboard to enable new insights into fatal injuries, and has released the first preliminary fatalities data for 2024.

Safe Work Australia has developed a new information sheet to assist PCBUs to use the national fire danger rating and warning systems to identify and assess t

Work Health and Safety Ministers have agreed to an immediate reduction to the workplace exposure standard (WES) for welding fumes (not otherwise classified) has been reduced from an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) of 5 mg/m

The return to work planning process can be challenging to navigate for the first time, but there are simple things you can do to improve the outcomes for an injured or ill worker.

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The Australian Public Service (APS) Employee Census (Census) is an annual survey which is used to collect confidential attitude and opinion information from APS employees on issues in the workplace. It is an opportunity for APS employees to share their experiences of working in the APS.

The Safe Work Australia Agency highlights report contains a summary of our census results on key questions as well as providing a comparison to similar agencies and our past results.

Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act.

Our 2022–23 Annual Report informs Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements across Australia. 

The Hon Tony Burke MP, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, announced the appointment of Ms Marie Boland as the new Chief Executive Officer of Safe Work Australia. Ms Boland’s five-year term will begin on 1 November 2023.

Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.

Were the buildings, structures or plant equipment at your workplace built or installed before 2004, or if in Queensland before 1990? 

The latest edition of the Safe Work Australia Quarterly Newsletter is now available! 

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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act.

Safe Work Australia has published new resources on managing WHS risks when workers are doing computer-based work from home.  

Safe Work Australia is seeking feedback on a range of potential options to improve the coverage and operation of the incident notification provisions in the model WHS laws.