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!

Insecure Work is putting people at risk, here’s why

October 15, 2021

We know that insecure work is a disaster for workers, and new research by Australian…

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Now’s the time to take a mental health day

October 7, 2021

October 10 is World Mental Health Day. It’s got us thinking about the other type of mental health day and just how important it is to take one.

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The hidden epidemic of work-related mental health issues

October 6, 2021

A new survey has revealed mental health as the fastest growing challenge to the safety of working people in their workplaces.

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Have you faced age discrimination in the workplace?

October 1, 2021

Age discrimination in the workplace is more common than you might think. But what is it and what you can do if you experience it?

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Anti-vax, far-right activists undermining Australians’ health, safety

September 22, 2021

Australians are facing an organised campaign by far-right activists to undermine confidence in our life saving public health response, writes Sally McManus

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Are you being bullied at work?

September 15, 2021

To help protect yourself from bullying in the workplace, we explain what bullying is and isn’t, and what to do if it’s happening to you.

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Impact on healthcare workers overlooked in a pandemic defined by numbers

September 10, 2021

Healthcare workers are the irreplaceable heart of our healthcare system. They must be better supported through the surge in COVID cases, writes Lauren Piko.

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Vaccination is an act of solidarity

September 8, 2021

Australian Unions has launched a national campaign to encourage working people to get vaccinated to support essential workers and those who have lost their jobs because of the pandemic.

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Australia has a chance to make workplaces safer, but Morrison is ignoring key rights women fought hard to achieve

August 25, 2021

The Government must adopt the Respect@Work recommendations so no worker has to choose between their job and their safety, writes Michele O’Neil

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Rebooting the cultural sector is vital to our COVID recovery

July 30, 2021

An economic and structural reboot of the cultural sector is needed to ensure this vital sector survives the pandemic, writes Lauren Piko

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