This report highlights key trends in work-related fatalities, injuries and disease, and provides valuable insights to help improve safety outcomes in Australian workplaces. There are more than 400 serious claims a day across Australia. The report finds the challenges to overcome are significant with harm occurring in a concentration of certain industries.

Work‑related injuries and illnesses can occur anywhere across Australia, in urban, regional or remote areas. This analysis uses national workers’ compensation claims data to provide new perspectives on the different incidence of injured or ill workers across these regions. It finds there are key differences across the regions.

A special ministerial inquiry into the workplace culture of the Office of the Children's Guardian (OCG) in New South Wales. It makes 16 recommendations to restore the OCG workforce, community and government’s trust and confidence that the OCG has the leadership, governance, policies and practices in place to achieve its mission.

This report reveals that the Australian retail industry is under pressure with unacceptable psychosocial risks. Based on a survey of more than 11,000 retail workers across nine sectors, it found that inadequate staffing was the number one hazard across the sector. The report proposes a 5-point plan for promoting psychosocial safety.

Fatigue is a critical safety and productivity issue in the Australian forestry industry. This research focused on fatigue management practices in the Green Triangle region in South Australia and Victoria. The research provides practical recommendations for enhancing fatigue management systems across forestry operations. It supports the development of fatigue risk management guidelines tailored to various...