Work design resources
Resources
SafeWork Australia: WHS duties
Work Health and Safety duties around providing personal protective equipment (PPE).
WorkSafe QLD: Worker’s rights and responsibilities
Details what a worker is, and their rights and responsibilities.
WorkSafe QLD: Business and employer responsibilities
Details business and employer responsibilities and where to start to ensure your providing a healthy and safe workplace.
ATO: Equipment, tools and other assets
Describes when an employer is responsible for equipment, tools and other assets, and when a worker is.
SafeWork Australia: How personal protective equipment helps to manage risks
Discusses possible problems with PPE and duties around maintaining PPE.
Roles and responsibilities
Comcare: Your role
Find out the role you play and your responsibilities under work health and safety, and workers’ compensation laws.
Safe Work Australia: Worker and other person duties
Summary of duties for workers and other persons.
WorkSafe ACT: Workplace rights and responsibilities
Summary of health and safety duties.
Safe Work Australia: Lack of role clarity
How to identify and control lack of role clarity.
Fair Work Ombudsman: Template job description
Word document template of a job description.
Systems, processes and procedures
SuperFriend: Mental health initiatives
Practical and evidence-informed strategic support, workplace training and resources.
Harvard University: The Work and Well-Being Initiative
Employer Toolkit to help employers create workplace conditions which foster the health and wellbeing for all workers in an inclusive manner.
Safe Work Australia: Principles of Good Work Design
A handbook that provides guidance on good work design. It includes 10 principles relevant to any workplace, business or industry.
Smart Work Design: What is Smart Work De
Outlines five key themes to consider when creating or developing work.
Comcare: Good work design
Information about good work design, including the principles and how to imbed good work design into your workplace.
Work Design
Comcare: Good work design
Information about good work design, including the principles and how to imbed good work design into your workplace.
Safe Work Australia: Principles of Good Work Design
A handbook that provides guidance on good work design. It includes 10 principles relevant to any workplace, business or industry
Smart Work Design: What is Smart Work De
Outlines five key themes to consider when creating or developing work.
WorkSafe QLD: Good work design
Details what good work design is and provides examples of good and unsafe work design.
Comcare: Benefits of safe and healthy work
Details the benefits of safe and healthy work and how to create it.
Workload and job demands
Comcare: Job demands
Details what job demands are, the impact and risk factors, and how to manage and control.
Comcare: Managing work demands checklist
A work demands checklist for employers, managers and workers.
SafeWork Australia: Job demands
Details how to identify and control high and low job demands.
Comcare: Work demands –
Practical guidance for employers, managers workers around work demands.
Comcare: Addressing work demands
How to address work demands.