Occupational health and safety
Alternative labels
Workplace health and safety
Industrial safety
Article
Psychosocial safety is everyone’s right and everyone’s responsibility
Psychosocial hazards in the workplace such as harassment, bullying and poorly managed supervision and training can result in stress, burnout and worse. This article outlines some of the laws and organisational cultural changes that can help identify, assess and eliminate or mitigate psychosocial hazards and risks.
Report
Good practices for handling whistleblower disclosures
This report provides insights for companies and superannuation trustees when designing programs or frameworks to manage whistleblowing in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001. The good practices identified are scalable and include examples of how executives and directors oversee whistleblower programs.
Journal article
Coping strategies for work and cultural stressors in multicultural construction workplaces: a study in Australia
This study may contribute to the existing body of work by uncovering the moderating role of positive coping strategies and providing targeted and effective coping strategies in multicultural construction workplaces.
Report
The future of work: designing for safety, wellbeing and the workplaces of tomorrow
The future of work is a context that is rapidly being shaped by powerful forces - the growing adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace, the increasing casualisation of the workforce, and the decentralised nature of where and how work is being performed. This report centres on research and case studies that speculate the issues...
Report
Communication counts: helping small business supervisors support ill and injured workers to return to the workplace
For this project, BETA collaborated with Safe Work Australia to adapt existing return to work materials for use by supervisors in small and medium enterprises and undertook a literature review, stakeholder consultation, and data analysis.