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Health & Wellbeing


  • Healthy workers & workplaces
    Taking good care of your health and wellbeing can help you face life’s stressors and keep you feeling positive and well.
  • Air pollution and bushfire smoke
    Employers need to look out for signs of the physical effects of air pollution and smoke. Provide information to your workers on the safety systems in place to avoid exposure.
  • Alcohol & other drugs
    The use of alcohol and other drugs before or while at work can have a significant negative impact on the people around them.
  • Burns and scalds
    Employers should assess the hazards that may result in a burn or scald and introduce measures to minimise the risk of injury.
  • Challenging behaviour
    Challenging behaviour extends throughout the health care and social assistance sector and can affect workers physical and mental health.
  • Discrimination
    It is unlawful to treat someone unfairly because they have a particular personal characteristic or belong to a certain group.
  • Fatigue
    Some types of work and some industry sectors have a higher risk of fatigue, particularly when shift work is part of the business model.
  • First aid
    The provision of prompt and appropriate first aid can reduce the severity or an injury or illness and it may save someone's life.
  • Grievance and complaint resolution
    All workplaces must have a clear and fair process for workers to raise and settle grievances or complaints that arise against another worker.
  • Heat & UV
    Employers have a responsibility to their workers to manage risks associated with heat stress and overexposure to UV radiation.
  • Biological hazards
    Find information about preventing infectious diseases in the workplace.
  • Nutrition
    By eating healthy food we can all can get more out of life, feel better and live longer.
  • Physical activity
    Being physically active and limiting sedentary behaviour is essential for your physical, social and mental wellbeing.
  • Sexual harassment
    Sexual harassment is against the law and can cause long-term psychological and physical harm.
  • Slips, trips & falls
    Slips, trips and falls are the second leading cause of workplace injury.
  • Smoking
    Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed workplaces and shared work areas. Everyone has the right to be protected from the harmful health effects of tobacco smoke.
  • Violence
    Everyone at work has a responsibility to ensure that violence does not create a risk to their own or anyone else’s health and safety.
  • Work life balance
    When our lives are more balanced, we are happier, more productive, take fewer sick days and are more likely to stay in our jobs.
  • Hazardous Noise and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)
    Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is an increasing concern across many industries in South Australia.

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