Work Health and Safety
Ensuring safe and healthy workplaces for all
Union members are driving the fight for stronger workplace safety laws, ensuring every worker has access to safe working conditions and fair health and safety protections. This section highlights how collective action is pushing for better work health and safety (WHS) standards, stronger workers’ rights, and employer accountability in creating safer workplaces.
Protecting workers from unsafe conditions
Every worker deserves to feel safe on the job. Unions are leading efforts to prevent workplace injuries, enforce occupational health and safety (OHS) regulations, and eliminate risks such as exposure to hazardous materials and unsafe work environments. Campaigns focus on improving mental health support at work, strengthening safety training, and ensuring that workers are not put at unnecessary risk.
Join the movement for workplace safety
By becoming a union member, you gain the power to demand better workplace protections, fight for fair compensation for workplace injuries, and hold employers accountable for maintaining safe working environments. Together, union members are making real progress in creating workplaces where safety is a right, not a privilege.
Read our articles for more information about Health and Safety at Work!
Workplace fatalities increase 32% under Morrison Government
April 27, 2022
Showing up at work shouldn’t mean putting your life at risk. But a report from the ACTU shows Morrison’s failings have endangered workers lives.
Let’s talk about Mental Health at Work
March 22, 2022
Australia has come a long way in recognising the importance of addressing workplace mental health, but there’s still a long way to go.
The best way to protect your mental health at work? Joining your union.
Sexual harassment in the workplace must end now
March 3, 2022
Believe the experiences of women. Believe things can change.
Morrison can no longer leave the disabilities sector to struggle alone
February 28, 2022
Earlier this month, unions, workers, service providers and people with disability met with MPs in Canberra to call on the Morrison Government to provide the disability sector with much needed support.
Nurses Deserve A Pay Rise Just For These Seriously Spicy Protest Signs
February 16, 2022
It appears the political quip game is strong among frontline workers.
The Morrison government’s scheme for tax deductible Rapid Antigen Tests barely scrapes the surface
February 11, 2022
Finally, the news we’ve been waiting for has arrived. The Morrison government has made Rapid Antigen Tests needed for work…. tax deductible.
Ultimately, this decision provides no immediate relief for workers who have been so frantically trying to secure themselves RATs.
Feeling uneasy about your COVID safety at work? We answer your top questions
February 1, 2022
Have you got questions about your safety and rights at work during the Omicron variant spread?
Australia needs free, accessible rapid antigen tests. For all.
January 24, 2022
The Morrison Government must step up to make Rapid Antigen Tests free and accessible to…
Free Seminar: Omicron and Workplace Safety – Your Rights
January 21, 2022
The rapid spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 comes at a time when many workplaces are unprepared. Register for this urgent meeting where Sally McManus and work and health and safety experts will provide advice and support on how to make work safe and prevent transmission.
COVID positive workers no longer forced back to work
January 19, 2022
Thanks to the power of workers organising and hundreds of messages sent to Woolworths’ Facebook page over the weekend, every worker who has tested positive for COVID will be able to isolate, rest at home and recover.