Australian workplaces are diverse. Many workers come from migrant and multicultural backgrounds and may have different communication needs and preferences.

Everyone in Australia has the right to be healthy and safe at work. 

Further advice

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This factsheet provides an overview of your duties under WHS laws to consult, cooperate and coordinate your activities with other duty holders, so far as is reasonably practicable.

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Download all fact sheets (for workers, supervisors and employers) to understand more about workers’ compensation stigma and what you can do to reduce it.

You can edit the co-brandable versions of the fact sheets to add your organisation's logo.

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).

This fact sheet provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) who are working as part of a contractual chain. 

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.

A food outlet in the food delivery industry provides food and/or drinks to a delivery rider for delivery to customers. The food outlet may engage the delivery worker directly or use a food delivery platform.  
 

A food delivery platform provides food delivery services marketed to food outlets, usually through a mobile device application. The platform engages delivery riders to deliver food produced by a food outlet. 

The food delivery industry involves delivery riders picking up food and drinks from restaurants, cafes and other food outlets and delivering them to members of the public.

This fact sheet provides information about managing the risks with falling objects at the workplace. 

Use this fact sheet if your business makes or supplies alcohol-based hand sanitisers during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

This information sheet explains the difference between model codes of practice and other types of guidance material and outlines the development processes. 

Think safe, work safe, be safe on the farm. 

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?

Think safe, work safe, be safe by ensuring all workers know how to stay safe and healthy in the workplace.

These workers need a safety induction too so they can think safe, work safe, be safe. 

This fact sheet provides information for employers on duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws to manage the risk of online abuse in the workplace.
 

This fact sheet provides information for workers on rights and duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws and what to do if you experience online abuse in the workplace.
 

A useful checklist for manufacturing workers which outlines the steps and process for managing risks and implementing control measures at your workplace to help protect workers from developing and occupational lung disease. 

A useful checklist for agricultural workers which outlines the steps and process for managing risks and implementing control measures at your workplace to help protect workers from developing and occupational lung disease.