Occupational health and safety
Alternative labels
Workplace health and safety
Industrial safety
Report
Caring for our frontline child protection workforce
The aim of this paper is to offer some guidance to the management of child protection and related services by drawing on occupational health literature.
Report
Sex discrimination, sexual harassment and predatory behaviour in South Australia Police
The Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) of South Australia was commissioned by South Australia Police (SAPOL) to undertake a review about the nature and the extent of sex discrimination, sexual harassment and predatory behaviour in SAPOL and make recommendations to address it.
Working paper
A good gig? The rise of on-demand domestic work
There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers globally, 80% of whom are women. Many of them work in low-paid, insecure and exploitative conditions. Technology-focused companies linking households to domestic workers through ‘on-demand’ platforms are attempting to disrupt the traditional sector, claiming to offer rapidly accessible, cheap domestic services to households, and flexible, well-remunerated economic...
Report
Bullying and harassment in Australian workplaces: results from the Australian workplace barometer 2014/15
Bullying was measured using both a widely accepted international definition and the Australian definition used by Safe Work Australia. The prevalence rates using the international and the Australian definitions were similar: 9.7 per cent and 9.4 per cent of Australian workers respectively reported they had been bullied in the last six months.
Journal article
Development of a multiple risk factor Brief Health Check for workplaces
Health promotion in workplace settings has been prioritised to reduce chronic disease risk factors, both in Australia and internationally. This paper, published in Public Health Research & Practice, describes the design of a health risk assessment tool, the Brief Health Check (BHC). The BHC is one of two components of Get Healthy at Work, a...