This year, Safe Work Australia’s theme for October National Safe Work Month encapsulates a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right across all industries and occupations, while reinforcing the business benefit that comes from committing to safer workplaces.
Weekly topics
Each week of National Safe Work Month revolves around a particular work health and safety topic. Incorporating industry consultation feedback, this year the topics are:
- Week 1: Work health and safety fundamentals
- Week 2: Psychosocial hazards
- Week 3: Risk management fundamentals
- Week 4: Musculoskeletal injuries
SafeTea
Safe Work’s popular SafeTea sub-campaign will also return this year. This event-based campaign encourages workplaces across the nation to gather the team and discuss WHS over a cuppa.
Getting involved
To foster safe and healthy workplaces across Australia, Safe Work encourage workplaces to utilise their resources and promote their initiative by following these steps:
- Download or customise the National Safe Work Month resources
- posters, social media tiles, activity sheets, email signatures and more to help raise awareness of WHS in the workplace.
- Use the hashtags #SafeWorkMonth and #SafetyIsOurBusiness to share National Safe Work Month activities.
- Subscribe to the Safe Work mailing list
- Stay in the know on all things National Safe Work Month by subscribing to their mailing list, remembering to tick ‘National Safe Work Month’ from the list of topics.
See the NSWM webpage for more information.