Please note: the Healthier Work recognition program is no longer operating
Information on understanding visions and values, measures, and further resources.
Animations on the following five areas: supporting workers, building positive workplace culture and leadership, supporting employers, supporting other stakeholders, and building and translating evidence.
Information and data about workplace inclusion in Australia.
Information on the benefits, how to and tips for writing a visions, mission and values statements.
Outlines the 5 key areas to create a diversity and inclusion action plan.
Guidance to create inclusive and diverse workplaces.
WHS fundamentals for businesses.
Toolkit resources including templates and plans.
Toolkit templates and resources for businesses.
Information in what to include in a mental health policy, anti-bullying policy, anti-discrimination and harassment policy, flexible work policy and return to work program.
Suite of policy templates for workplaces.
Suite of templates for workplace strategic planning and management.
Information about the types of employee commitment and their influences.
Information about the importance of role modelling in the workplace.
Information on workplace consultation obligations.
Information on the benefits of consultation, employer responsibilities, worker responsibilities and activities with other duty holders.
Information on working at best practice, consultation and cooperation in the workplace, legal requirement to consult, using best practice to support consultation and cooperation in the workplace, a best practice checklist and further links and resources.
Templates, tools and resources to help plan and conduct an evaluation.
Evaluation factsheet looking at success factors and how to gather data.
Information sheet about program evaluation guidelines.
Article about how to encourage employee accountability.
Article on the importance of accountability, examples and a step-by-step guide to achieving it.
Information about good work design, including the principles and how to imbed good work design into your workplace.
A handbook that provides guidance on good work design. It includes 10 principles relevant to any workplace, business or industry
Outlines five key themes to consider when creating or developing work.
Details what good work design is and provides examples of good and unsafe work design.
Details the benefits of safe and healthy work and how to create it.
Find out the role you play and your responsibilities under work health and safety, and workers’ compensation laws.
Summary of duties for workers and other persons.
Summary of health and safety duties.
How to identify and control lack of role clarity.
Word document template of a job description.
Details what job demands are, the impact and risk factors, and how to manage and control.
A work demands checklist for employers, managers and workers.
Details how to identify and control high and low job demands.
Practical guidance for employers, managers workers around work demands.
Work Health and Safety duties around providing personal protective equipment (PPE).
Details what a worker is, and their rights and responsibilities.
Details business and employer responsibilities and where to start to ensure your providing a healthy and safe workplace.
Describes when an employer is responsible for equipment, tools and other assets, and when a worker is.
Discusses possible problems with PPE and duties around maintaining PPE.
Practical and evidence-informed strategic support, workplace training and resources.
Employer Toolkit to help employers create workplace conditions which foster the health and wellbeing for all workers in an inclusive manner.
A handbook that provides guidance on good work design. It includes 10 principles relevant to any workplace, business or industry.
Outlines five key themes to consider when creating or developing work.
Information about good work design, including the principles and how to imbed good work design into your workplace.
The Code of Practice and the WHS Regulation Amendments set out clear duties for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) when managing psychosocial hazards at work.
A list of current Codes of practice in the ACT to assist workplaces to manage workplace hazards.
Details common psychosocial hazards, how they cause harm and how to manage them.
Identifies 14 psychosocial hazards and provides information on what they are, the risks they pose and how to eliminate or minimise them in your workplace.
Details how to manage psychosocial hazards in your workplace
Details types of physical hazards, types of work and industries, and provides suggested training.
Details how you to manage hazards, and keep yourself and your workers safe from harm.
Details how the risk management process applies to all hazards and risks, and can be used for physical hazards and psychosocial hazards alike.
Tool for identifying hazards and risks in your office.
Simple checklists, registers, plans and report templates.
Resources on how to identify, assess and control hazards.
A tool to help you identify health and safety risks in your home or office space.
Guidance on how to safely work from home including a checklist and further resources.
Information to assist workers understand the risks of working outside and the duties of their employer.
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on how to provide and maintain a physical work environment that is without risks to health and safety.
This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals.
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks of plant in the workplace.
This guide provides information on designing, redesigning or modifying plant to be used in a workplace.
Information on what your duties as a PCBU are when providing PPE for your workers.
Information on registering plant in the ACT.
Information on identifying health and safety risk in storage and equipment areas.
Information on what workers can do and what employers can do to minimise and control hazards.
This template is for organisations to write an emergency plan.
This factsheet provides information on preparing and maintaining general emergency plans.
Driver Safety Maturity Model (DSMM) that supports identification of WHS controls to manage work-related driving.
This risk management framework is for individuals and organisations and includes processes for managing risk in line with relevant legislation and contemporary road safety principles.
This guide provides information on creating an accessible workplace in relation to: the physical workplace, workplace attitudes, workplace technology and reasonable adjustments.
Rights and responsibilities of hiring a new employee.
User-friendly step-by-step guide on recruitment.
Information and resources about employment conditions in Australia.
Step-by-step guides on employee onboarding, inductions and inductions for existing staff.
Word document checklist to help you in inducting your new employee.
Information on how to manage employees’ professional development and understand the ways to help advance their skills and knowledge.
Training Needs Analysis is a process that enables you to accurately identify upskilling opportunities.
Comcare offers a range of education and training on topics related to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) and Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act).
Information on developing a training and development program, your training obligations and developing employees through mentoring, coaching and shadowing.
Information on why you need workplace policies and procedures, and how to develop, implement and review HR policies and procedures.
The Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework and a range of tools and resources for trainers, educators, employers and individuals.
Information about skills education, grants and training programs.
Information on National Training Packages and upskilling employees.
Information on how to manage employees’ professional development and understand the ways to help advance their skills and knowledge.
Information on emerging and trending skills in Australia.
An introduction to performance development and management.
Factsheet on good work design: enhancing performance.
Information on how to conduct a performance review and set-up an ongoing review system.
Information on managing performance including tools and resources.
How to prepare staff for performance reviews and how to deal with underperformance.
Information on when and how to consult.
Information on how to consult with workers and supporting resources.
Information on WHS duties around consultation including sharing information and keeping records.
Information on the importance of communication and consultation between employees and employers, and supporting tools, resources and related information.
Including a video offering tips and tricks to help you find your confidence in situations where confident communication is essential.
Information on inadequate rewards and recognition.
Article on the difference between recognition and appreciation and why the distinction matters.
This article provides research-based advice on how to give the kind of employee recognition that will make a difference in employee engagement, performance, and retention.
Article on recognition, why it’s important and how to do it with supporting statistics.
Outlines how to identify, assess and control inadequate reward and recognition to meet WHS obligations.
This website provides a set of resources to support individuals and organisations to better understand, prevent and address workplace sexual harassment and descrimination.
Information about how to manage work related stress due to workplace relationship confict.
Information on what can increase poor workplace relationships and suggested training and resources.
This guide focuses on the relationship between the supervisor and the injured or ill worker across four key stages of the return to work process: when the worker is first injured or falls ill, while they are away from work, as they prepare to return to work and when they return to work.
Article discusses the top 8 ways that showed effective collaboration from a study of 55 businesses.
These resources are designed to help promote diversity and prevent discrimination in workplaces. They provide support to develop effective policies and practices in areas including gender equality, sexual harassment, recruitment and retention of older workers, managing employees with family and carer responsibilities, workplace cultural diversity and employment of people with disabilities.
Word and PDF factsheet to download.
Information on what poor organisational justice is, and how to identify, assess and control it.
This resource provides information on four categories for investing in changes to address equity, diversity and inclusion. Word and PDF download of the information available.
The HSR role explained, HSR elections, operating as a HSR and HSR training.
Details the difference between WHS and wellbeing and includes further resources and reading.
Information and resources on mental health and wellbeing including suicide prevention.
Lists the benefits of a safe and healthy workplace and ways to create it.
Information about workplace wellbeing programs.
Monthly wellbeing calendars to download. Webpage also offers a range of other resources around happiness.
Resources on mental health that can be sorted by industry, role, topics and modules.
Explanation on what a health and safety management system is and how to develop one.
Evidence-informed guidance to help organisations develop an EAP that better meets the needs of employers, workers, supervisors, and managers.
PDF booklet outlining a framework to drive quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based decision-making to help ensure EAP services are fit-for-purpose, responsive, and adaptive to the changing needs of employers, workers, supervisors, and managers.
Provides information about EAP providers in Australia.
Factsheet on injury reporting in Australia.
Rehabilitation programs explained, information on monitoring your progress and further resources.
Details the benefits of returning to or recovering at work after a work-related injury or illness and further information.
Information on different types of employment including graduated return to work, internal placement and re-deployment.
Information on the benefits of reasonable adjustment, examples and a workers role in the process.
Support for employers who want to create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disability and people with disability seeking employment, developing a career or considering self-employment.
Information on injury management, rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation and workplace rehabilitation provider approval.
This guide focuses on the relationship between the supervisor and the injured or ill worker across four key stages of the return to work process: when the worker is first injured or falls ill, while they are away from work, as they prepare to return to work and when they return to work.
Information on the purpose of the advisory service, who can access it and what advice is offered.
Information on what workers compensation is, who to contact for workers compensation advice and help, and related information.
A national strategy to drive and leverage national action to improve return to work outcomes for workers with a work-related injury or illness. This strategy addresses return to work in a national context.
Early intervention explained and information on how to put early intervention into practice.
Information on flexible work and supporting resources.
Information on who can request flexible working arrangements, how employees can request flexible working arrangements, what employers should do with a request, lodging a dispute with the Commission State and territory laws as well as tools, resources and related information.
Information and video on flexible providing flexible work.
Information about the benefits and types of flexible work arrangements.
Guidance material for managers and staff to aid the design and introduction of flexible work.