Peter, Liz and Wes will provide practical strategies to designing out hazards and explore work health and safety and productivity improvements that result from good design of machinery. 

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Practicing safe work methods is essential when working in a high-risk industry like construction. This video highlights the need for exclusion zones to ensure the safety of everyone working on-site. 

Produced as part of the National Road Safety Partnership Program, this webinar discusses the fundamentals of load restraint and the importance of having an engineered load restraint system that includes testing, training, guidelines and audits. 

While we’ve come a long way in ensuring physical health and safety is a normal part of how we work, our next challenge is to ensure mental health is given the same priority.

What is asbestos? 

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral and typically found in rock, sediment or soil. Asbestos was once considered very useful for building products, gaskets, and friction materials like brake linings. 

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Matthew Fegan​ 

We're always trying to continually improve safety as part of our culture here at Arcadian Organic, so we really wanted to make sure that people were safe in their environment.

Research shows that healthy workers are: 

Featuring a hospital, a fine art restoration service, and an artisan bakery, this video shows how risk management and the hierarchy of controls can be used to protect workers’ health and safety.

This presentation gives suggestions on how organisations can use the concept of the ‘safety ladder’ to advance their safety.

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You have a duty to take reasonable care of your own health and others in the workplace.

When it comes to psychological health and safety, employers can often be confused about their responsibilities. They want to know how to address the legal requirements, what best practice is, and how they can address the risks.

Professor Richard Johnstone explains what responsive regulation is, the history, and its theoretical foundations. He discusses how responsive regulation is a flexible solution between the two arguments: one for less regulation and one for more ‘command and control’ regulation.

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In this seminar, international safety expert Professor Patrick Hudson reflects on the challenges facing organisations trying to implement processes to improve their safety performance.

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This broadcast introduces workplaces to the Participative Ergonomics for Manual Tasks (PErforM) program, a simple risk management program used by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

Safe Work Australia Chair, Diane Smith-Gander AO encourages everyone to be safety champions.

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Working in an emergency department presents a range of physical and mental work health and safety hazards, including exposure to infection, bodily fluids, highly emotional situations and patient aggression.

Safe Work Australia partnered with Comcare to broadcast a webinar as part of National Safe Work Month 2020 – Accelerated workplace change in the face of COVID-19.

Putting on a major event is a complex undertaking, from installing temporary infrastructure and managing contractors in the planning stage, to dealing with electrical hazards and managing large crowds during the event. Rigorous planning, communication and ongoing monitoring is essential.

This seminar is the second in a series filmed by NT WorkSafe as part of its Remote Workers Work Health and Safety Program.

Work health and safety is not set and forget – risks can change and new risks can emerge.

Other videos in this series:

Join in and support work health and safety through COVID-19. A safe workplace benefits everyone, and anyone can get involved.

Other videos in this series:

Whatever the industry, or workplace – everyone can join National Safe Work Month and commit to keeping people safe and healthy at work. 

Other videos in this series:

Each year preventable work-related injuries and illnesses costs the Australian economy $61.8 billion. As a national policy body, Safe Work Australia works to shape healthier, safer and more productive workplaces for all Australians.

If you are involved in managing a small to medium business then you are likely to have a duty as an ‘officer’ under work health and safety laws. This video features workers from a range of industries talking about why they are an officer in their business.

Watch this video to see what employers in the construction industry must do to manage these risks at work and protect their workers from occupational lung diseases.

In this seminar, Associate Professor Genevieve Healy discusses research on how sitting and standing habits influence our health and wellbeing; and considers the best changes that desk based workers can make. 

In this seminar, Professor Sharon Newnam presents findings from the Patient-handling Injuries Review of Systems project, funded by WorkSafe Victoria.

In this seminar, Associate Professor Jodi Oakman discusses the science of managing complex systems, and how this relates to MSDs. She also discusses her research into a participative hazard identification and risk management (APHIRM) toolkit, being developed Latrobe University.

In this seminar, Associate Professor Anjum Naweed presents his findings on how to ‘derail’ workplace MSD risks using systems thinking. His research is focused on work health and safety risks experienced by drivers of light rail vehicles (i.e. trams or streetcars).

Businesses that manufacture, import, supply or use hazardous chemicals should watch the webinar for information on:

Physical distancing is an important measure because the risk of COVID-19 exposure is increased when working in close contact with others.

A COVID-19 work health and safety risk assessment is an essential step for all small businesses to manage the risks from COVID-19.

Information for small businesses on cleaning to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 

Safe Work Australia has developed new guidance for small businesses on work health and safety duties and managing risks from COVID-19.

See what other resources we have available on the COVID-19 Small business hub.

Find out how the Strategy is helping workers be actively involved in their recovery and return to work.

Find out what the Strategy means for workers, employers, health practitioners. rehab providers and claims managers.

Also watch our short animations on the five action areas.

Find out how the Strategy is making better use of data and research to drive continual improvement across the system.

Watch our overview of the National Return to Work Strategy.

Also watch our short animations on the five action areas.

Find out how the Strategy is helping employers to effectively support workers in their recovery and return to work.

Watch our overview of the National Return to Work Strategy.

Also watch our short animations on the five action areas.

Find out how the Strategy is helping other stakeholders support workers in their recovery and return to work.

Watch our overview of the National Return to Work Strategy.

Also watch our short animations on the five action areas.

Find out how the Strategy is supporting workplaces to reduce stigma and promote positive relationships and behaviours.

Watch our overview of the National Return to Work Strategy.

Also watch our short animations on the five action areas.

Supporting information

See how these organisations are #safetychampions with their innovative approaches to work health and safety in their workplaces.

This is part three in a three-part series.

This is part two in a three-part series.

This is part one in a three-part series.