2023 National Safe Work Month guide

October is National Safe Work Month — a time for organisations and workers to commit to building a safe and healthy workplace. This year’s Safe Work Australia theme is “For everyone’s safety, work safely”.

We compiled useful resources to support your professional development and your organisation’s safety strategy. Check the articles below and the links to further webinars, events and publications by state.

Week 1: Working together to manage risks at work

Safe Work Australia suggests organisations review their risk assessment processes this week, starting with the identification and assessment of hazards. Useful articles to help you get started:

5 strategies for preventing sprains and strains in the workplace

5 common manual handling injuries (and how to support your workers)

Week 2: Working together to protect workers’ mental health

Week two of Safe Work Month is about mental health. To in identifying the psychosocial hazards at your workplace, speak with supervisors, managers and workers. You can also organise an activity to acknowledge World Mental Health Day on 10 October.

5 takeaways from Comcare Work Demands Guidance

10 tips to promote workplace health and wellbeing events

Week 3: Working together to support all workers

The theme for this week is about supporting all workers, including those vulnerable to health and safety harm: the young, those who work alone, culturally and linguistically diverse workers or working in a more complex contractual chain (e.g. labour hire).

5 ways to engage non-English speakers with workplace safety

Why health literacy matters in workplace injuries

Week 4: Working together to ensure a safe and healthy workplace

What does the future hold for health and safety? Safe Work Australia encourages organisations to focus this attention on changing ways of working as well as the emergence of new forms of work.

Are Exoskeletons the Key to Reducing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders?

Supporting your ageing workforce